St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-18
Minneapolis & St. Louis and St. Paul q
Northern Pacific Acquiring Right
of Way to Anoka.
The Former to Build an Extension from
There to Duluth or Some Other
Lake Superior Point.
After an Unsuccessful Attempt W
Patch Up Matters the Transcon-
tinenta1 Dies.
Lively Meeting of the Central Passen-
ger Committee at Cleveland
--Other Matters.
Will Build TO Duluth.

For some time past the Minneapolis u
st. Louis Railroad company IN connecIioh
with the Northern Pacific Railroad conf
pany, has been acquiring and now mas al
most finished ACQUISITION to right OF way
from Minneapolis to Anoka. Inc WORK
has been gong on most secretly, but with
rapidity, and yesterday. when the nrst an
nouncement was made, it caused general
furry in railroad circles, and the report
spread like fire on prairie. The agitation
was not merely caused by the report that
these two lines would build jointly to
Anoka, but by the further rumor that the
Minneapolis q st. Louis road has already
a corps of surveyors to locate route from
Anoka to Duluth, and as soon as
the spring season opens construction
work will at once be prosecuted
with a yigOr never before known
in railroad construction in the Northwest.
Vice President Truesdale of the Minneapo-
lis 81 st. Louis left for Chicago Tuesday, it
is said. to consult with President Cable of
this road and of the Rock Island, and make
all necessary preliminary arrangements Tor
the building of this new and important ex-
tension, which it is exceedingly necessary
that the company should have. 1t has been
rumored time and again that this company
would bnild to Duluth, but no attention
has been paid to the reports. railroad COM
panies and the general public alike believ-
ing them TO be absurd and without founda-
ton. But the authenticity Of them will be
shown in few months, and the extension
will lead to
OTHER STARTLING DEVELOPMENTS
OF railway transfers in the Northwest,
which at present are brewing, and will be
reported in the GLOBE as they occur Last
fall a corps of surveyors were in the vicin-
ity Of Anoka laying out route, but they
would not say anything regarding their
movements, but merely said that If they
told what they knew some railroad compa-
MES would feel very tired, but their doingS
were not for the public to know. 1t is now
believed that their occupation was locating
the route TO Anoka from Minneapolis, on
which the st. Paul q Northern Pacific and
Minneapolis 81 st. Louis companies intend
building. From Anoka the proposed line
of the Minneapolis & ST. Louis will diverge
in a northwesterly direction, and thence
directly northeast to Duluth or Superior,
the Lake Superior terminus not being def
nitely settled upon yet. But the prospects
are that Duluth will be the point at which
which the road will terminate, while
running arrangements can be made
with the Northern Pacific for
track privileges to Superior That this
road will be doing wise thing in extend
ing to Duluth is questioned very much. but
it is the only thing for it to do, as other
lines are making such overtureS that it is
highly necessary that it
SHOULD HAVE A LAKE OUTLET.
For the past fifteen years the st. Paul &
Duluth road has been great moditier OF
tariff. and rates to Eastern points from st.
Paul and Minneapolis via all railroads have
been kept at a minimum by it. 1t has been
so powerful in its administrations that the
trunk lines to Chicago have noted the ne
cessity of having their own lake lines, and
are now figuring to that end. The first to
do this was the Omaha line, which has har-
bors at Superior and Washburn; the latter
it is trying to develop as a lake port as
quickly as possible. and is making many
improvements there which will help it
greatly in facilitating its business. The
Minneapolis & st. Louis has been and is
the worst off of any of the lines in the
Northwestern Traffic association, as faras
lake business Is concerned. The Milwaukee
d st. Paul has an outlet at Milwaukee,
while the Minneapolis q st. Louis, over
its connection with the Rock Island, can
only receive and forward its lake business
at Chicago. The flour manufactured at
Minneapolis during the summer season
seeks a lake outlet, by reason of its cheap
ness, and portion of that manufactured in
the winter is stored at Duluth and Mime
apolis until navigation opens, when it is
then forwarded by lake. The Minneapolis
& st. Louis wants to handle some of this
traffic, and besides relieve itself from the
position it is placed in of having other
roads make up its tariffs for it. There
will be new steamship companies running
their boats to Duluth and Superior as the
roads running there multiply, and the
Minneapolis will not only command a GER
tain amount of the -four traffic to Duluth,
but goodly portion of the lake freightage
at Duluth for Northwestern consumption.