St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1892-09-15
POOR YEAR TO BUILD.
President Cakes Says the
Northern Pacific Will Wait
for a Time
And Allow "Jim" Hill to Do
the Railway Building in
the West.
Novel Series Of Entertain
ments Projected by the
Bethel Association.
John D. O'Brien Succeeds DR..
Keane on the School
Board.

President Cakes, of the Northern Pa
cific, arrived in St. Paul early yesterday
morning and is now at the Aberdeen.
This visit is part of one of the two an
nual inspection tours which the head of
the system makes, and has no connec-
ton with the breakup of the Transcon-
tinental traffic association. This will
be one of the most thorough tours made
by President Cakes in the past few
years. and he will 60 over every branch
line. spending almost six weeks in
all. The head of the Northern Pa
cifc is too we'll known in st.
Paul and throughout the North
west to need an Introduction to the
people. he is of medium height. with
full black beard, that makes him ap-
pear much younger than he really is.
He is rather quick in his movements,
and inclined 10 be brief in his state
ments, but he has way of getting at
the bottom of question at once. To
him is due large portion of the credit
that is accorded the Northern Pacific in
railroad circles when the system is re-
ferred to as the 'best manag ed line in
the West"
On the Northern Pacific merit cuts
some figure in an officer or in an en-
ploye, and men have been known to
work their way up from the bottom.
and when pretty we'll toward the top
have not been turned back or out to
make room for some politician. This
has Lad its effect on the employees of
the road. and more faithful lot or men
than are found in the service of the
Northern Pacific cannot be found on
any other line of railway in this cOun-
try. This trip of p resident Cakes is eX-
citing no Small degree of Interest Ill
the new commonwealth of Washington
where there are rumors and reports
atloat in nearly all parts of the state as
to branch lines to be built by the North
ern Pacific. One of these is that the
Central Washington will be pushed onto
Waterville and up into the OkanOgan
mining district: another that this same
branch will be built to the summit of
the Cascades. there to connect with the
Everett q Monte CristO, and a third
that coast line will be built to Fair
haven and Mount Vernon. Asked in
regard to these reports. President Cakes
said:
This is poor year to build rail
roads, and we will allow Jim Hill to do
the building in that territory" ~
But is it not the intention of the
Northern Pacific to build the Central
Washington into the Okan0gan coun-
try?"
II presume that will be done some
time IN the future" was the reply, but
not this year" - =
There is report that the Great
Northern will build branch to ColfaX
to secure portion of the wheat in the
Palouse country"
II hardly think so.r replied President
Cakes. There is nothing there in the
way of freight except wheat, and that
is all crowded into three months, and
the balance of the time there is little to
to do. The Palouse country is fertile
and rich, but is very we'll supplied with
railroads"
Speaking of the irrigation canals
built in the Yakima basin by the North
ern Pacific in the last three years, Pres
ident Cakes said the scheme had been a
wonderful success in every way.
The land there worth S. to Sc an
acre before is now held as high as $780,"
he said. "The soil is simply bed of
ashes. and wherever water can be got to
it its fertility is remarkable"
President Cakes will remain in the
city until tomorrow morning, when he
will resume his trip West.