St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-25

region which Is already TaplulN Scttllng up.
and which is susceptible of high state of
cultivation, while the remainder OF the line
to Northern Pacific junction penetrates the
very center of the great pine region OF
Northern Minnesota From this point the
Manitoba has already the right to haul its
freight TO Duluth over the tracks of the st.
Paul & Duluth road, and at Duluth has
ample terminal facilities. Other reasons
for reaching this conclusion are these: That
the st. Paul IL Duluth road, in whose man
agement the Manitoba has a voice, is build
ing an extensive yard in the vicinity of
Rices Point; that President Hill and Di-
rector Thorne last Saturday, Immediately
after the adjournment OF the meeting Of di-
rectOrS, paid visit to Duluth. and that to-
day General Manager Marvel went to the
same place on business. One may well ask
the question, "What do the presence of
surveying party at CroOkston and the visits
of high officials to Duluth mean. if not the
construction of this line of road?" Mc. Hill
has laid an iron grasp on the Red river
valley, and no rival has YET been permitted
to enter that territory and remain there.
All he needs is a short lake outlet and it
would seem that he is about to secure that.
TIE DEVILS LAKE EXTENSION.
With the light thrown on the subject by
the proposed line from Cro0kston 10 Duluth,
it may readily be conceived that the Man.
itoba will feel its way westward, very
quitely, indeed, but yet surely, so as 10
reach the Upper Missouri region. Now il
is well understood in certain quarters that
few capitalists have already bought all the
water power on the upper Missouri in the
vicinity of Little Falls. And the Devils
Lake extension is headed now SO as to pass
through the big bend of the Mouse river.
whence it will have direct line west TO
Little Falls. When it reaches that point,
as it is sure to do, sooner or later. we will
have new system of road controlled by the
Manitoba people extending between 600
and 700 miles from the Missouri river to
Lake Superior This does not look as
though the Chicago, Burlington IS Quincy
were about to gObbIe up a corporation
which has ideas embracing such 2 system
lying so far north of its northern terminus
A NORTHERN MINNESOTA VIEW.
Special to the Globe.
A MoORHEAD. Mimi, Aug. 24.-Specula-
ton in railway circles is rife here, and
many theories are advanced 10 account for
the surveying party recently sent inGO the
| field from CroOkston. 1t is admitted thai
j. J. Hill is taking measures to protect his
territory from the threatened encrGachmentS
of the St. Paul, Brainerd x Northwestern,
to which corporation the last legislature
transferred the old Duluth Il Winnipeg
land grant. This line as surveyed, is al
most an air line from Brainerd to Red Lake
Falls, and is in effect parallel to the Fer
gus Falls branch of the Manitoba road, and
taps a country rich in agricultural, stock
raising and numbering resources, and which
already only finds its market on the line of
the Manitoba, although at distance Of
from fifty TO seventy-five miles away. BY
reference to q map of Northern Minnesota
it will be seen that the BTainerd IL North
western. If built. would naturally invade
and control very valuable piece of terri
tory that the Manitoba could easily retain
by extending any one of several small feed
erS which already point toward what Shrewd
observers have settled will be the next
railroad battle ground in Minnesota. viz.
that extended and fertile tract lying be-
tween the big woods about Lake ltaSca and
Red lake on the east and the st. Vincent
branch Of the Manitoba on the west. That
Mr.. Hill had this in mind in the past is
perfectly apparent from the general course
marked ont by at least three otherwise i'm
portant feeders The first of these is the
Sauk Centre q Northern, which runs al
most due north from Sauk Centre to Eagle
Bend, distance of only about thirty miles,
but which is headed directly for Red lake,
the advertised objective point of the pro-
jected Brainerd line. An extension of this
line would shut out all danger from par
allel road. \ somewhat shorter and fully
as practicable line would be the extern
sion of the Pelican Rapids branch or the
Fargo, MOorhead & Northern, both of
which have surveyed routes through TO Red
lake. That Mr.. Hill will protect his terri
tory from the incurSionS of the Brainerd
young men. and that even now he is PLAN
ming to that end, seems to be the universal
conclusion in this section, and it is fully
believed that dirt will begin to fly very soon
on some extension into this country.
AT DEVILS LAKE.
Special TO the Globe.
MINNEwAUKAN. Oak, Aug. 24.-A
new breath of life has been infused into the
lately dormant DunSeith S Southeastern
railroad. Funds have been forwarded TO
liquidate the indebtedness incurred last sea-
sod for the preliminary survey, and rumorS
are rife that new survey that shall mean
business will soon be made. The design of
this road was to open up to settlement the
great Mouse river and Turtle mountain
country by means of connection at this
point with the Jamestown Northern.
branch of the Northern Pacific, recently
completed to this point 1t is admitted
that any move by the DunSeith company
looking to the building of this line would
be to the Manitoba, now resting securely at
Devils Lake City. as the red rag to the ell
ragged bull. The Northern Pacific. with
terminus at this point, and the Manitoba,
with terminus at Devils Lake City, both
headed for that ultima thule of railroad
building in North Dakota, are on the alert
for the slightest sign of aggression by the
other, and should any other corporation at
tempt to do what either of these giants hesi-
tate to undertake, then each would pro-
ceed TO carry the war into Africa at once.
and railroad building in North Dakota
portions witnessed in 1881 and
1882. There is magnificent
country awaiting one or both of these roads.
and that they will long remain passive does
notseem a, all probable. The crop now
being harvested all along the north shore Of
Devils Lake and through TO the Mouse
river and Turtle mountains, q stretch of
country fifty miles wide and nearly one
hundred miles in length, is now tributary 10
this point by an advantage of about twenty
miles, and consequently the wheat of this
vast region finds market by the Northern
Pacific. and it is throght this viii be the
inducement that will tempt the Manitoba TO
first throw down the gauntlet and take up
the pick and shovel. 1t is evident that
neither road is anxious to cut loose from
their mOOrings on the shores of this great
inland sea, but ''if the traffic will stand it."
the motto of ali railroads, must soon change
the present passive state of railroad affairs
in North Dakota.
The Latest ssumor.
An Associated Press dispatch last Satur-
day morning from Boston announced the