St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-07-01
From SUNDAYS GLoBE.)
A BIG PROPHECY.
Gigantic Railroad Develop
ments in the Canadian
Northwest.
The Northern Pacific to Build
a New Line TO the Pa
eifie
That Will Parallel the Canada
Pacific by the Mckenzie
Route
And Develop a Gigantic Tract
Of Country Tributary to
st Paul.

his road had signifed its intention of
withdrawing from its Canadian rela-
tions, OF had sold out its interests in the
dominion. He replied: absolutely
none. l wish you would deny the re-
port most emphatically, from me. Our
contract with the Manitoba government
precludes our doing anything of the
sort. Even if we desired to withdraw
we could not do so. We are building
new lines very rapidly all through
Manitoba, and regard that as one of the
most valuable parts of our whole sys-
TEN. Manitoba and the surrounding ter
ritories form finer wheat-growing coun-
try than Dakota, and we have most
valuable piece of property. No, we have
not yet bought the Northwest Central
railway, but some negotiations looking
that way are going on. | am glad the
GLOBE denied the rumors about our
withdrawal from Canada, as nothing is
further from our intentions. We are
spending a pile of money there and
could not afford to withdraw. Besides,
look at the tremendous concessions the
Manitoba government has granted u.s."
Mr.. Cakes was told of the talk INDUCED
In by many people to the effect that the
consolidation of the Northern Pacific
and Wisconsin Central roads would
seriously injure the former through
making five or six enemies OF roads
which were formerly friendly. He
laughed, saying: 1.-The Northern Pa
cigc is fully able to take care OF itself.
We calculated on all the chances be-
fore we made the deal, and should not
have made it if we had not been certain
"Did you see that article in the GLOBE
some months ago, in which affiliation
between the Northern Pacific and
Grand Trunk roads was predicted?"
was asked.
"You were perfectly right in your sur
mise. That was
THE GREAT INDICTMENT
to buy the Wisconsin Central. BY that
road we got close connections at Chi
cago with the Grand Trunk. We de-
sired closer relations with that road,
and have now got them. Where was
your information on that subject OBJ
tained?"
"From Sir Henry Tyler, president of
the Grand Trunk"
E"Well, he ought to know. You see
BY these connections we have a road
straight across the continent from Port
land, Me-, Halifax, Nova Scotia and
Montreal on the st. Lawrence to the
Pacific coast. This gives us powerful
system of roads,"
Col. James Mcknight, counsel for the
Northern Pacific and president of the
Northern Pacific & Manitoba, was asked
the same question about their with
drawal from Canada. Col. Mcknight
ridiculed the idea IN much the same
terms that President Cakes had done,
saying: "Those reports are mere y be-
ing spread to injure our business.
They are absolutely false and without
foundation. The Manitoba govern
large bonus for building the road
they had projected, and one of the eX-
press terms of the agreement was that
we should not sell out, either to the
Canadian Pacific or to the Manitoba
road. Look at the thousands of tons of
iron we are shipping to Manitoba, the
thousands of men we are employing
and the thousands OF dollars we are
spending. That contract was not made
between the government and the North
ern Pacific, but between the govern
ment and Messrs. Henry Willard, T. F.
Cakes and James Mcknight personally.
Our interests are too great there to per-
nit of our withdrawal. Instead of that
look out for further development"
A BIG RAILROAD PREDICTION.
The conversation of some of the most
prominent railroad men now in the city,
combined with remarks let drop by 9th
ers who have been here within the past
few months. taken in connection with
facts, known perhaps to only a few, but
facts nevertheless, point to the follow
ing DEVELOPMENTS, which are herein
the immediate future. The Northern
Pacific will buy the Great Northwest
Central railroad. The history of this
latter road has been cheQuered. 1t has
not been completed, owing partly to the
apparent responsibility of the parties
who were endeavoring to obtain the
land grant from the Dominion govern
meht, and partly to the determined op-
position of the Canadian Pacific
railroad. However, portions of it
have been graded. and now the
Northern Pacific and Manitoba road
is about to buy it. A safe prediction to
make is that they will own 1t inside of
four weeks. This projected road runs
northwest from Manitoba, penetrating
the vast wheat fields of the Saskatche-
wan valley, the finest wheat-groWing
district in the world, according to 'Ras
Wiman. Many hundred miles north
west it runs, passing Battleford and
terminating at Edmonton. When this
belongs to the Northern Pacific and
Manitoba, it will be extended at once to
the Pacific coast, which it will strike at
Skeena bay. This is the route the Ca
madam Pacific
OUGHT TO HAVE TAKEN.
and is that known as the Mackenzie
route" which was advocated by Hon.
Alexander Mackenzie in the days when
he was premier of Canada, in and
around the year 1878. 1t is a much
more feasible route than that taken by
the Canadian Pacific through the Kick
ing-HorSe Pass to Vancouver. The i'm
pOrtance of these developments to St.
Paul and to the Northern Pacific road,
which is essentially st. Paul road,
cannot be over-estimated. The great
est wheat belt in the world lies around
the Mackenzie. Peace and SaSkatche-
wan rivers. 1t is to-day nothing but a
rolling prairie. No farmer can locate
there because of the impossibility of
reaching market for his produce. This
new road will open up the country,
making it entirely tributary to st. Paul.
That it will be settled up Immediately
on the entrance of the railroad cannot
be doubted in the light of past history.
thousand miles long and in parts 1000
miles wide, which can grow over thirty
bushels of heat TO the acre, year after
year, OH the basis of the yield of Mani
toba, which is in every way its inferior
for wheat raising. The entrance of the
Northern Pacific to this vast territory
will cover every section witt with farms IS
shipped east over the Northern Pacific
via st. Paul. All of this hitherto un-
known Canadian Northwest will at
once become
DIRECTLY TRIBUTARY TO ST. PAUL,
and will prove potent factor in heI
future development. The principles of
the Northern Pacific are about as fol
lows: Let other roads seek an outlet
via Duluth, let other roads ignore St
Paul, the Northern Pacific will make
the whole Northwest, from their south
ernmost branch to the north pole tribu-
tary to st. Paul. The road must be-
come paying concern in a very few
Do M ia a r.