, 1880-12-12
Minnesota Schemes for an Out
let North Of Chicago. q
Another Blockade On East~Bound
Freights and Diminished Traffic.
The Railroads Of the United States Com
pared with Those in Europe.
Another Postpenement Of the O., B. d q.
Stock Dividend Question. j..

MILWAUKEE, Dec. 10.-Ycsterday met
Gen. c. G. Washburn, brother of. Elitu
Washb,rne, and the king of the Minnesota
mlllers. had known Gen. Washburn when
he was In command Of Memphis in 1865. lie
il now quite along in years. l think he told
me his age was 81 The General, besides be-
ing great miIl-owner, is also railroad
magnate in Minnesota, having personal con-
troll Of the Minnapolis d St. Louis Road.
which runs south to strike the Chicago. Bur
1ington g. Quincy in Iowa, and the St. Paul
l. Duluth Road; which runs straight from
St. Paul and Minneapolis to Duluth, on Lake
Superior. Again, he owns all the. railroad
tracks about all theMinneapoli>h Hour mills,and
the Northwestern and St. Paul and in fact all
roads which handle Minneapolis wheat or
flour, have to pay him tribute.
When asked Gen. Washburn how much
wheat they would grind in 1881 In Mime
apolIs, he said:
"I suppose about q, ,ooo, 600 bushels,-all
the hard wheat grown"
At Lockport and Rochester, n. T.. Gen.
Washburn found all the hour-mills closed.
Not stone was running:
When asked him the cause OF this, ne
";Ihey can no longer grind wheat in the
East to compete with our Minneapolis mills.
We grind nothing but the hard Minnesota
wheat. For this we use the HUNGARIAN
not get the unmixed Minnesota hard wheat.
II they do get 1t, It is always mixed with soft
Southern wheat. all wheat is mixed in
Chicago. The hard wheat is mixed with the
soft to grade It up Tonss e the hungarian
all Of one grade and that grade hard
wheat. So Eastern mtllers cannot now. and
never can, make the fine patent flour which
our Minneapolis miilors make: and the same
is true of the Scotch millers, for they cannot
get our unmixed hard wheat The Scotch
and English tlourlng mills are stopping.
They cannot compete with our Hour, which
we can send there for s1.9o above cost in
Minneapolis"
York grain-nlen on the New York end, and
ceet and si5ss Psdeat o'P[ e. H. the
old West Wisconsin, now called the Chica-
tenn, have just finished a road from Abbotts-
ford. OIL the main line Of the Wisconsin
Central, to Eau Claire on the Wisconsin.
This makes an almost straight line Of road
from Minneapolis and St. Paul to Mantto-
voc: on Lake Michigan, seventy miles north
first train of flour went over this new line
billed for New York last week. At Mantto-
WOO, the flour was transferred to iron Steanl-
Flint l. Pere Marquette Road at Ludtngton.
From there the -four sped on to Detroit and
over the Great Western of Canada tn Lewis
ton, across tho Niagara River at Lewiston to
Sam Sloan's system of roads, the Rome,
Watertown Il Ogdcnsburg and the Delaware,
Lackawanna s. Western. to New York.
This short cut from Minneapolis to New
York. leaving Chicago out in the cold, Is
seventy miles shorter than any other line:
the West Wisconsin, to slip through their
fingers, and now, If Chicagoans don't wake
up, they will find 2, ooo, COO bushels Of wheat
ground into flour: going to market over q
President Colby, David Dows. and Samuel
Sloan mean business with this new trunk
route, seventy miles shorter than any other
W6sn + ! ~ asked Gen, washDurn what it
"Oh, 1'm not In the pool; but suppose it
means that the St: Paul and Northwestern
can; take the freight out, and it had to burst
Tho harbor at Mantowoc is the best Oh the
lake. It is almost always open. Iron steam
ships can run from there across to Lndtng-
ington at oil times. Later OIL, boats like the
big boats of Detroit, large enough to take Q
train of cars, will be put on between Mani
towoc and Ludington.
Another tremendous system OF rai!roads IS
developing in Minnesota The old st. Paul
d Pacific, from St. Paul and Minneapolis to
St: Vincent, On the Canadian border south OF
Receiver, has been finally picked up BY q
crowd Of heavy capitalists. The bonds Of
this road, which drains almost all the North
west, were mostly owned in Holland. They
got to be worth a very low figure on the
market when George Stevens. PRESIDENT OF
the Bank of Montreal, and Richard B.. An
gus, manager Of the same bank, with DON
aid A. Smith, of the Hudson Bay Company,
backed BY j. J. Hill and n. W: kitson, ST:
Paul mfllionaires, went over to Holland and
bought them up. The syndicate has already
made about $4,000 GOO out of the property.
They now call the road the Manitoba sys-
ofancnes, and the road promises 70 pIalica
ao n'ithE Eene';s Ky - y! ,i sl rth,pastorn and
Chicaeo: Rurlington & Quincy branch arouud
over the great North and Southwest.
The st. Paul. Minneapolis & Manitoba
tine Manitooa systenl) IS noliong hule 4h ma,1s
~ ~ Thse otltan Is snendine 81 o
0O0 on improvements in Minneapolis, and
Richard B. Angus, the General Manager of
the BANK Of Montreal, has moved TO Mime
ahos 10 ;t tooh @ aitcr nis area' ~ rh'siests, Psni
Thev ara niI 1onEinrs fnr IN Eastern outlet
for their system without dropping down to
Chicago. Chicago might as we'll look this
matter Ill Inc lace now. lneSe IlCH ChI-