, 1889-08-29
SPOKANE FIRST.
Then On to the Sea MS Rapid
ly as May be Pos
sible.
Such Is tho Determination of
the Manitoba Railroad
Management.

General Samuel Thomas, credited as
tho power behind the throne in the Man
itoba railway system arrived in Tacoma
a few days ago in his special car Mar
grctte, of tho Duluth, South Shore IL At
lantic railroad, in which ho Is largely in
terested. He was accompanied by his
three children, w. A. G. Ewing, also in
terested In railroads, and Colonel and
Mrs. w. Z. Orr President Jim Hill,
with his wife and family, met them ut
Duluth and came us far us Butte City.
Concerning
THEIR PLANS
the Morning Globe says:
The party will remain here day or
two looking over the Sound country
and will go to Vancouver Saturday or
Sunday, where their car, which has
been sent back via Winnepeg, will be in
waiting to take them east over the Ca
madam PGeilic. General Thomas was
well known In railroad building circles
between Chicago and the Ohio river
thirty years ago, and, for tue past ten
years, has been engaged in various rail-
road enterprises in the south, which
have proved wonderfully profitable TO
that region of country. Heis president
OF the East Tennessee, Virginia &
Georgia railroad and the Richmond Ter
minal Company, and an officer or di-
rector in numerous other enterprises.
1--WE arc here on u pleasure trip and
to see some of these Sound ports" said
the general. "You keep such a
BEATING OF ToM-ToMs
out here that we cannot be satisfied
until we come out and see what you
bave. 4 have never been west before
not this far. We speak of out west
VIXEN we refer to Duluth and Minne-
apoiis.
II have been so much interested in
southern roads for fhe last ten years
that have paid littlo attention to this
part of the world, blit since have be-
come interested in thS South Shore
and the Manitoba | wanted to come out
here and see where the road was going
before taking too much interest in it,"
"Will the Manitoba come to Tacoma
In the near future?h
"Well, ii will come through to the
Sound ut somo point, and before q great
while. The work will be pushed ahead
now. Mr.. Hill is
DRAWING TOWARD SPOKANE,
and will come to the Sound rs fast as
the work can be done. There will be
one great city here that will be the
town, and | don't know which one that
Is to he. j have heard Il great deal about
Seattle aud Fair Haven and Townsend.
They will all, L suppose, make good
towns, but there Is one of them that will
be the city, and the others will be tribu-
tary. Wherever that point Is the rail-
roads will all center. This Is wonder
fully rich country here. Your timber
alone will yield an immense revenue for
number of years, and then your coal
and iron and other minerals will take
Its place. There has been almost as
much growth in the SOUTH In the iron
and coal regions of Tennessee, Georgia
and Alabama, rs here in these
western towns, largely due TO
--..I NORTHERN ENERGY
and northern capital. Your town is the
clcanest, busiest, most go ahead town |
very much. You want to go ahead here
and get steamship line TO Asia. We
will work with you. We ure us anxious
as you are 70 get this through.
We are handicapped now by these
Canadian roads with their subsidiscd
steamships WHICH are pNlu 1Or DN tnc
government, and all their losses paid by
the government, until they are on IL
paying basis. You will be u state soon
and have representatives in congress.
Then will be the time to make u strong
effort to get the line. We, on the Az
luntic, are as anxious as you are here on
the Pacific, to see this line started"
The party will take n special steamer
and cruise around the Sound for day
or two looking ut the various future
great cities on the Sound.
"You can't always tell just where
THE GREAT CITY
will be-" said he, II built railroad
through to Michigan City, at the hcud
of Lake Michigan, when IL looked Us ii
there was to be II great city when Chi
rago was unheard of. Now the sand
dunes drift over Michigan City ut their
own sweet will. So of Huron, Ohio.
The time was when that was u greater
place than Cleveland. When Maumee
was city and Toledo not even Il stop
ping place for the shipping that went
sailing by. You know what Huron IL
now. There will be Il good many HUI
rons on the Sound. There will also
be u good many live little towns, but
only one great city, that will be known
all over lhe world"
when do you think the Manitoba
will come into sight on this slope of the
Caseades, will 1t be next summer?'
u can say. 1t may be sooner than
that. We are going to push through to