The weekly tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1891-1894, 1892-08-20
.1VE GREAT NORTHERN
.ideut Hill Working to Establish
. Great TranscOntinental
Line.
.,LIaying East From the Sound
Through Trains on the
Extension.

Chicago special to the Spokane
otosman, under date Of August 10,
r.. L. c. Dillman of Spokane and
t.sident Hill of the Great Northern
mp to Chicago from st. Paul yesterday.
|, Hill went on to New York. 1t is
Ilerstood that his mission is n of the
latest Importance to Spokane. A deal
noder way which, when contaminated,
create a tremendous sensation, not
IN in the northwest, but in railroad
[cles everywhere. 1t is a matter in
bicb Spokane is vitality interested, for
successful contamination will result
that city becoming the imperial trade
ster Of the entire northwest.
rbe details of the deal can not be
de public at present, but enough is
Ovn by the Spokesman correspondent
Justify the statement that il Hills
In to New York results az expected all
%bestion with regard to Spokane's COM
ercial supremacy will DO forever set
pd 1t will make Hill master of the
Iaroad situation in the west and will
Aahle him to construct tariff sheets for
transcontinental roads entering the
brthwest.
TRANsCONTINENTAL LINE.
IA New York special of Aug. 10 shows
kat President Hills schemes are, as
Iight be expected, big ones, and con
lmplate nothing less than a great trans
Influential line. The dispatch says:
President Hill of the Great Northern
bday signed contracts at New York
(th the Globe Iron works of Cleveland
b. two immense lake passenger steamers
bsting 100000. They will be COM
|eted next spring and will run between
|ufalo in connection with the Great
|orthern. The time from New York to
|pokane will be several hours less by the
ew lake route than by all rail by way of
|hicago.
The new boBts will far exceed in size
bid elegance of appointments anything
bw ahoat on the lakes. They will
Make the run of 1000 miles between
Duluth and Buffalo in fifty hours, being
kilt entirely with regard to speed and
accommodations. Two more
bats will be built each year until six
ks in service, giving daily sailings
bch way. This will make the eastern
k.uinus Of the Great Northern at Buff
No. where close traffic arrangements
be in force with the Erie e. Lackawanna
bIvay to New York, Philadelphia and
tetOn.
EAST FROM SEATTLE.
Seattle Post Intelligencer: The mate
b for track laying on the Great North
b railroad from the Sound eastward is
fw on the way here. Between 400 and
y car loads of rails and f~astenings from
\ Illinois Steel company have been
tipped over the Great Northern. They
be transferred at Spokane to the
nthern Pacific, which will deliver them
Jain to the Great Northern at Boule-
trd. From Everett they will go V
b Everett a. Monte Cristo to the
P%sterial Yards now being prepared at
|owell, where tracklaying will begin.
locomotives and cars for construction
purposes are also on the way out here.
p also is additional equipment for the
past lines.
THROUGH TRAINS.
Through trains will be run on the Pa
nc extension, beginning tomorrow. A
fan will leave st. Paul tomorrow night
$40 o'clock for Spokane, arriving
nere are 6 o'clock a. m. Aug. II. The
flurn train will leave Spokane at 1:30
H. Aug. Il, arriving in st. Paul at &
N. Aug. 20.