The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-05-27
J. J. HILL AND THE N. p.

With the Northern Pacific and Great
Northern under the control of Jim HUI
the outlook for Great Falls will be greatly
improved.-Great Falls Leader.
The Northern Pacific is an excellent
property, and all it needs is excellent
management, and that il will have when
Jim Hill gets a firm hold of it.-Elst Ore
gonian.
The importance to the Northwest of the
placing of the Northern Pacific upon
solid financial basis, as will be done by
tho contemplated arrangement. can
hardly be overestimated. As Mr.. Hill
| SAYS, the three failures of the Northern
| Pacific have marked three financial crises
/ or panics in America, and the passage OF
/ the property into strong hands Will have
/ an immense effect in aiding the restora-
! ton of confldence.-Mnneap Tribune.
When President Hill says the future
/ policy of the Northern Pacific will be TO
develop the territory along its line and
get settlers upon its lands. even If it has
to put prices at low figure, he defines a
! line of action which all who have the in
forest of the Northwest at heart will hope
will be taken. The Northern Pacific as
an active immigration agent would be
power for good.-Seattle Times.
Some weeks ago it was rumored that
| Henry Willard was to get up another sym
dictate for controlling and operating the
| Northern Pacific railroad and its connec-
lions. 1t was denied, and now comes
news from Berlin that his old rival,
James j. Hill of the Great Northern, is to
secure the control of that system. This
would be personal triumph of great sig
niflcance. The Great Northern itself
would never have stretched its arms west
ward to the ocean had Hills modest and
reasonable request for fair treatment In
the transportation of rails and other ma
terial for the construction of little
branch railroad been complied with. He
not only built his branch in spite of the
Willard meanness, but he paralleled the
Northern Pacific and established a com
petition which had n great deal to do with
bankrupting il. And now, it seems, the
victory of Hill is TO be complete, and VIZ
lard may know something of the feeling
of Napoleon at st. Helena, or Louis Napo
: leon or Chiselhurst. There is at least one
passage of sacred writ that may well
occur to him, "How hath mine enemy tri'
, umphed over me."-Chicago Inter Ocean
: President Hill OF the Great Northern il
D heavily interested in the Burlington ant
{. that road also has interests in the Great
r Northern. Mr.. Hill has no use for tive
5 transcontinental lines, while the Burling
Q ton has immediate use for one. 1t is rea
4 sonable to suppose. then, that if Mr.. Hi
y secures the Northern Pacific the BurlirG
ton will control and operate that la
from Billings TO the coast, thus giving IL
transcontinental line from Chicago t
: Portland. In consideration of this cor
u cession the Burlington people might Civ
Mr.. Hill control of the Chicago, Burlington
! & Northern line from Chicago to St. Pau
\ and he would also have an outlet fror
i the great city on the lake to Seattle o
the Pacific. Besides he would control til
Northern Pacific from Billings east an
!, thus secure for the Great Northern Oh
/, immense grain traffic of the Dakotas an
- Minnesota.-Billi Gaz cite.
l. Mr.. Hill has managed the Great Nort'
y ern during the hard times in n mann'
y worthy to be admired by his associate
- and il seems reasonable that the stocl
y holders Of the Northern Pacific shout
take favorably TO having him manage Il
4 affairs of their company also. With ii
y two lines Of road Mr.. Hill would not co
y troll moro miles of railroad than j;
: Gould or the Vanderbilts had for year
and as tho communities through Whit
- those roads were operated have prospere
- there can be no reason why the same r
y suits may no; be attained IN Montan
:, The Union Pacific and Burlington W
- continue to be competing lines and the
Is no likelihood that there would be a
great danger ofan increase IN transport
er ton rates since TO make them succe
III they must be run in harmony with 4
n country from which they derive the
n ge.-Husbandman.