The DeSmet leader. (DeSmet, Kingsbury Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-08-30
HILLS GREAT RAILROAD.
Talk That the Great Northern
will Build Into California.

The election Of officers for the Min
nesota Eastern railway at st. Paul,
together with the fact that II. ID. Min
OF, the retiring president of the road,
and +. G. Cruger, the roads former
treasurer, have been in San Francisco
for a number of weeks past with no
apparent object in view, says a spe-
cIal Telegram, has gwen rise to rumor
that the Great Northern Railway
Company intends building to San
Francisco from Butte, Mont, via
Boise City, Idaho.
The reason that the facts mentioned
should be the cause Of such rumor
is because the Minnesota Eastern ~ a
branch organization OF the Great
Northern railway, and that men like
Minot and Crugar would not make
such "a long stay in the city except
for some important purpose, such as
an extension to the city would be.
II the rumor has any basis OF fact 1t
is almost certain that Jim" Hill, the
president of the road, together with
his few business associates, are the
only persons possessed Of that knowl.
edge, and they have not publicly said
that the rumor is true. As matter
of fact, they have denied that they
intend building into California.
Messrs. Minot and Cruger have been
asked several times as to whether or
not their pi essence in the city had any
connection with any proposed extern
sion of the Great Northern railway i'll
to California, and they have denied
that such is the case. Both gentle
men insist that their visit IL one sole
" for pleasure and rest. Mr.. Minot
has been seriously sick at the Palace
for several weeks, but for which ht
would have returned home long ago
Their retirement from the Minnesota
| is explained on the ground that aclos'
| or consolidation has been effected with
the parent company, Messrs. Clough
Grover, Sawyer and President j. },
| Hill, of the Great Northern railway
| having been elected directors Of the
| Minnesota.
Railway officials admit that the
road in question is fully as able to
| build into California as any of the
| large western roads. Until recently
! President Hill and his associates oper
| ated their overland system under the
name OF the st. Paul, Minneapolis 4
| Manitoba and Montana Central com
panies, the former being the road eX
tending west from st. Paul to Great
| Falls, Mont, and the latter being tn,
road from Great Falls to Butte
Within the past three months, how
ever, Hill and his associates effected q
financial reorganization OF their prop
critics by making a bigloan III London
since which time the name OF the st
Paul, Minneapolis * Manitoba com
pany has been changed to the Great
Northern Railway Company.
Hills properties are recognized as
great rival system to the Northern Pa
cifiC. 1t is looked upon as an incom
plete system because it has no termln
us on the Pacific coast, o condition
that will soon be changed, for par
OF the loan it secured in London wa
for the especial purpose OF building al
extension from Great Falls, Mont.
via Spokane Falls, to Seattle. Worl
4 on this proposed extension Is now go
2 ing on in Washington under the nam
OF the Fairhaven & Southern Railway
Company.
No one questioned the intentions o
the company to build to Seattle, bu
Gs to it's bnilding to San francisco
there is nothing on the subject tina
can be said that will be more than
speculation.
At the present time it has a trafti
arrangement with the Union ans
Southern Pacific people by which i
has an entrance into San francisco an,
it has an agency there to look after il
interests.