Morris tribune., 1883-11-07
THE NORTHERN KsACHFIC'S
PLANS.

are largely in the east, and attempts
will be made to have the road and its
run in their interest.
These owners and their friends are
largely commission and middlemen,
wholesale dealers, millers and mer-
chants, who are reaching out from the
east, for Minnesota, Dakota, Montana,
Oregon and California's trade and pro-
duce, and they desire the management,
headquarters, and the line of road to
be so connected, that their business
will receive direct benefit; this is
what they and their friends invested
in the stocks and mortgage bonds of
the road for, and not as an interest |
paying investment for the preasent, |
and this is what they propose to have |
without regard to the local feelings OF |
any western point. The owners have |
oeen feeling for long time, that the
road had too much Minnesota in it,
and that it was straining its harness
too much in pulling for st. Paul and
Minneapolis; and after going over the
whole ground at the late celebration,
they were more than ever convinced /
of their previously formed opinions,
The owners believe it essential and
absolutely necessary to build up cities
along its east and west line, where its
lands will receive more direct benefits
| from the business transacted, and give
| them cash value in the market.
They also think cars can be manufac-
| tured and the larger shops run cheaper
| further east where there is a greater
supply of labor than at Brainerd, and
| where they can have an eye more up
on what is going on. These owners do
not particularly admire the present
extension at this time of the road from
| Duluth or Superior to Ashland, at
such a great expense through the
heavy pine wilderness in north Wis
tconsin, where bridge must he built
upon an average of one in each mile
iof road, and one across Fish Creek,
THAT will be nearly 800 feet long; and
for another reason that it will give too
much to the Canada connecting roads,
land carrying the business too far north
| of them, beyond their control and in
dividual profit. Eastern millers are
by no means satisfied with the future
Suspect of the wheat market, and are
contemplating the building Of roads
from Duluth or the $780, west to at
ford them better clue to the wheat,
and which will of necessity be near
parallel lines to the Northern Pacific,
which it wishes to avoid if possible.
Already, lake boat owners in the east,
tamong whose associates are those of
1.-THE Northern Pacific, have signitied
| their desire to form an eastern chain
or this road, and form an unbroken
| inc from the Atlantic to the Pacific,
| as nearly under one head and manage
ment regarding officers as possible and
| hen to patroniZe the roads having a
Canadian connection, as matter of
convenience to their trade and not as
an act of compulsion. This talk with
eastern boat owners in this interest is
what gave rise to the report that Mr..
Willard was about to purchase line
of heavy lake steamers to connect his
Dad with the east. The great diff
Guilty with this mammoth Atlantic and
| Pacific line is an outlet from Duluth
| asst in the winter, as eastern trade de-
hands it as much during the close Of
| navigation, as at any other time, and
without this, they could have no voice
in controlling the wheat market in
| Minnesota or Dakota. The eastern
roads which were desired as links to
| torm this cham would not swing in,
Ialthough they would sell, but such ex-
| brilliant prices were asked, supposing
themselves to be Of absolute necessities
| IN sHme great deal, the trades in them
. | nave for some time been considered off.
| The western friends of the road accuse
the eastern friends Of being narrow
minded, and the easterns retort by
saying the west are too extravaganza.
The main objection to Mr.. Willard is
1 that he desires the road to reach all
| the important harbors uro1 Lake ST.
eperior, for the purpose If controlling
Efreights in the summer, a:.I after that
l to construct road form Ashland to
Milwaukee and Chicago, over the
shortest possible route, and to build or
have privileges over road from ST..
Paul to the two last cities named, so
as to control the freigts, or have a
voice in it, during the summer; and
the eastern owners object, until the
road shall earn enough to stand this
extra outlay. Mr.. Wizards warm sup
porters reply to this, that if he is al
Flowed to carry out these plans, and
others he has in view, European capt.
tai has promised to come over and buy
4 all the best of the wheat lands along
the line of the road, and a portion of
the best timbered lands, and pay cash
down for them, when there will be
plenty of money to square up the roads
Indebtedness.
The condition of our coast defenses
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