St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-08-07
Report that the Burlington and Manitoba
Are Investing in Each Others
Property,
Their Object Being to Work in Joint In
terest on Through Business Bound
Either Way.
Several Roads, Including the Water
loo Route, Said to be Anxious
to Consolidate.
East-Bound Passenger Agents Meel
to See Who is Cutting the
RateS--Notes.
The burlington Coming.

a rumOr has become current in local rail-
road circles that the Chicago, Burlington &
Quincy is making no stronger efforts TO Sc
cure the controlling interest i'll the Manitoba
road than j. j. Hill, president OF the Mani
toba, Is making to secure the controlling IN
terest III the Chicago, Burlington ~ Northern
road, which is to be built by the Chicago,
Burlington 81 Quincy, to force its through
line from Chicago to st. Paul. 1t is stated
that j. j. Hill has been in the secret OF the
BurlingtOn'S proposed extension to st. Paul
for some time past, and knew every plan
which that corporation was making a
gentleman, who holds an important posi-
ton with military company and presumes
to know certain things, says upon swhat
ne claims good authority that the large
number of shares of the stock of the Mani
tOba road, which j. j. Hill owned, and
which are said to have passed into the
the hands of the Chicago, Burlington d
Quincy, were paid for by an issue OF an
even number of shares of stock of the new
Chicago, Burlington Il Northern line. 1t
is, by a number of railroad magnateS, sup
posed to be scheme of the Manitoba and
the Chicago. Burlington & Quincy conf
panieS to mOnOpOliZe as far as possible the
traffic to and from Chicago and the country
northwest of st. Paul. That such scheme
is necessary to protect the Manitoba road,
is recognized by james J. Hill, and he will
push things i'll the new line as he has done
all others enterprises that he has been in
tereSted i'll.
1t is past the time to merely speculate on
the extension of the Chicago & Northwest
ern, the Milwaukee Il st. Paul and the Rock
Island roads into the Northwestern terri
tory which has been heretofore, and is
TI,N Ix-f In
ern Pacific and Manitoba roads as their ex-
elusive territory. 1t is fact that they will
build and within year or two. The Mil
waukee has taken the initial steps and the
others have to follow. The Manitoba is
without a line which it can depend
upon as a connecting line to Chicago; one
which will work in joint interest with the
Manitoba road. and this J. j. Hill finds in
the Chicago IL BurlingtonS new line.
In this combination the Northwestern
traffic lines will have a fierce competitor
and an aggressive che. The Manitoba is
located in a country which has developed
within the past few years into the richest
wheat-grOwing country in the world, and
its position with the Northwest is already
established. The Chicago, Burlington IL
Quincy comes to the Northwest at a late
period i'll its history, but will from the first
get a large per cent of the through traffic
from points northwest from st. Paul. AS
the GLOBE prophesied, the new line from
Chicago will be the Winona, Alma &
Northern from Savanna to st. Paul.
Surveyors are now at Winona, and
declare that hereafter the line which has
been known as the WinOna, Alma & North
ern will be called openly the Chicago, Bur-
lingtOn IL Northern. This line will be a
short one, only eight miles longer than. the
Milwaukee and Omaha lines, and will run
along the river bank to Savanna. Interest
in the Manitoba and Chicago. Burlington &
Quincy roads is increasing, and the subject
is fayorite one for railroad men to talk
about