The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1896-09-25
IT'S PASSENGER AGENTS AND Of
FICE CLERKS ORGANIZE A NEW
COMPANY.
HAS THREE MILLION DOLLARS.
1T WILL BE KNOWN AS THE Dr.
LUTH, SUPERIOR & WEST
ERN.
FROM DULUTH TO ANYWHERE
I'm the Red River valley, Seems to
BE the Roads Prospective
Itinerary.

| Three million dollars is the amount
OF capital stock accredited to the Du-
luth, Superior & Western Railroad com
I pany, which filed articles of incorpora-
tlon In the office Of the secretary of
state yesterday, and, as it proceeded
through its attorneys, Mum, Boyesen
q Ihygeson, to deposit the necessary
zee or $1,525 for filing the articles, it is
saIe TO assume that it knows or thinks
II knows where. the money is coming
from, In spite of the fact that none of
the lncorporators are known to the
general public as bloated bondholders,
or even railroad magnates.
Inc articles state the purpose of the
ROAD to be the construction of a line
westerly and northwesterly from Du-
iutn, or some point in it's vicinity" to
some point on the boundary of Mime
sofa, IN the northwestern corner of the
state, either on the Red River of the
North, or on the northern boundary be-
tween the river and Lake of the Woods.
or to both of these points.
The project, it will be seen. is de-
Hghtfully vague. but there seems to be
reason to believe that the selection of
this terminus will depend upon the To-
cation at which the Canadian Pacific's
new branch intersects the international
boundary. That road is evidently seek
Ing an outlet direct to Duluth. The
personnel of the incorporators would
indicate this. They are nine in num-
Der, three each from st. Paul. Mime
apolis and Duluth. The st. Paul men
are Leonard A. Larsen, who. accord
ing to the city directory, is a clerk liy-
Ing at 233 East Thirteenth street: H. f.
Huntington. who is the city passenger
agent Of the Soo-Pacific, and Frank
Jones, who is clerk in the freight de-
partmeut of the Soo-Pacific.
w. w. Walker, one Of the Dulutbians
is an ex-traveling passenger agent Of
the same system; the other incorporat-
ors from that city being R. L. Knobel
and S. r. Lewis. The Minneapolis in
corporators are Charles p Eckels,
Charles Litzky and George C. Hamil-
ton, all of them clerks in the office of
the 500.
That the gentlemen are daring pro-
Jectors is apparent from the fact that,
whereas almost every railroad incor-
porat1on organizes for a term of 999
years. the new company starts bravely
out to last 1000 years or know the rea-
son why. 1t is reasonable to suppose
that when party Of less than a dozen
passenger agents, freight house clerks,
etc., start out to build a $4,000, 600 line
of railroad, with only one terminus To-
Gated. and drive it through an unex-
plored wild of hematite, pineries and
granaries Of the world it is reasonable.
perhaps, to assume, that they have the
assurance Of backing from some better
endowed sources
The 500, In the absence Of further de-
velopments, will naturally be looked
upon as having some connection, how
ever remote, with the new line.
General Manager Underwood, of the
500 road, seen in Minneapolis last
night, said that he knew nothing more
of the incorporation Of the new COM
pany than that some clerks in the en-
ploy of the road had asked if there
could be any objection to the use of
their names in connection with the new
scheme.