The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1892-03-17
THE 20" COMING WEST.
Will Connect With the Great
Northern at Helena.
LOW LUMBER RATES PROMISED.
VIII Open Great Territory to Sound
Products-Great Northern May
Buy the Three Road.

While the Great Northern is hurrying
its track westward to the Sound, the Chi
cago, Burlington & Quincy is extending
the Chicago, Burlington & Missouri road
northwestward to Helena TO meet it and
thus form a connection which will
open the way, at low rates, for Puget
sound lumber to vast stretch of territory
which it can scarcely enter at present
through rates.
The Chicago, Burlington IL Quincy now
has road running northwest through
Nebraska, a corner of South Dakota and
WYOMING TO Buffalo in the northern part
of Wyoming. a branch running almost due
north from Edgemont junction, s. D., to
Deadwood S. d.. where the road now gets
its coal supply. Work has been in progress
all winter on an extension from Buffalo
through Montana to Helena, Butte and
Great Falls. 1t will be pushed all summer
and will probably be completed this fall,
and certainly by the time the Great North
ern main line reaches the Sound next
spring.
Is soon as these lines are completed
they will make low joint lumber rates to
the ten states which are reached or will be
reached by the c., B. & @. and its connec-
Nebraska, Kansas, Colorado, Utah, Min
nesota, Iowa, Illinois and Missouri. These
rates remain to be fixed when the exact
mileage is known, but they will certainly
be lower than the IS, 571S and 60 cent rates
now made jointly with the Northern Paci-
fic. At present Puget sound lumber in or
der to reach the c., b. &, @. main line and
branches in the prairie is hauled over the
- a,,I
south over the Chicago, Burlington &
Northern, and either east or west over
the c., B. & q. Freight from this section
to points west OF Omaha and Council
Bluffs as far as Denver and Cheyenne on
the Burlington system thus has to go east,
then south and then west again, an ar
rangement which involves a vast amount
of extra mileage. The Union Pacific now
has such direct route to Wyoming,
Utah, Colorado and Nebraska that
it can do the business to better advantage.
But when the new Burlington line is fin
ished to Helena the extra mileage will be
saved and the Burlington will get the long
haul which it now gives the Northern
Pacifi C. The Great Northern will have a
fair slice in the haul from the Sound to
Helena, where its line will diyerge north
west and the Burlington's southeast.
Thus the two will each cover an entirely
distinct territory, fed by the Great North
ems Pacific extension.
While this arrangement will deprive the
Northern Pacific of Its long haul on BUSH
ness for points on the Burlington, the
Burlington's extension will give it the
means of competing with the Union
Pacific in territory where the latter comes
into direct competition with the Burling-
ton-in Colorado, Wyoming. Kansas and
Nebraska. Unless the Union Pacific gets
its own line from Portland to the Sound it
will be at a disadvantage in the fight for
the business OF this section with the
Northern Pacific and Great Northern.
allied as each will be, with its immediate
competitor east of the Rockies, the Union
Pacific