The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-01-28
IN RAILROAD CIRCLES
The Road From Somewhere to
Any Other Old Place.
BUT 1T MUST HIT IDAHO
From Butte to Sacramento, Opening Up
the Rich Resources of Idaho. Is the
Last Plan-H Hill After the
Union Pacific.

The Idaho capitalist newspapers are
again building a railroad from Butte
to Sacramento, Cal, or from anywhere
else To some place so long as it takes
the state of Idaho into account. The
Signal published at Wciser is building
southwesterly from that pace TO Sac
ramento and northeasterly To Butte 1t
says:
The construction of the road means
the opening of the immense territory
embraced in the boundaries of WASH
ngton, Idaho and Boise counties, and
the eventual opening of this now sealed
domain to the commerce o. the world.
More. than this and requiring no
stretch of Imagination, is the northern
connection with the great transconti-
mental lines, the Northern Pacific and
Great Northern, and the extension
south and west to Sacramento, which
latter can be made from Weiser with
not n mountain range intervening, and
a distance of less than 400 miles. This
means to say that the Western man
can, with the road constructed, reach
Sacramento as soon as he can reach
Portland or Salt Lake. The distance
from Weiser to its nearest northern
railway connection is 200 miles, say, to
Genesee, Idaho on the Northern Pa
cific railway, and this is through the
greatest agricultural, grazing mineral
and timber district of the Northwest,
and the extension south from Weiser
would pass through the greatest and
most permanent stock country of East
ern Oregon and Northwest California,
without railroad facilities. giving a
line $40 miles. From Weiser to Butte
the connection can be made in o1J
miles, and this line if adopted, would
fI., it,A,,, lin Il
shorten the through line from Sacra-
mento to the East
Has James j. Hills desire for power
become mania?
Has his ambition reached that point
where it would leap all barriers and
seize upon the entire West as his do
minion?
These are questions which well-in-
formed men on Wall street are asking
of themselves and their associates to-
day, writes a New York correspondent
of the Minneapolis Times. They are
living questions, made vital by the fact
that James j. Hill, Jacob II. Schif and
the Duetsche bank are now using every
means in their power to control a ma
iority of the stock of the reorganized
Union Pacific railroad, for the purpose
of consolidating that read With the
Great Northern and the Northern Pa
ton beyond the dreams of the most
daring speculator and transeending the
gigantic operations Of Hill and his
hackers in the past
That the big deal is on the Times is
able to state this morning with great
postiveness, and the mere announce
ment of the fact is sufficient To show
that Mr.. Hill believes that the great
Northwest and the entire Middle West
have become so cowed and intimdated
by his greatness and the people Of these
vast sections will supinely yield all the
splendid territory which his tentacles
seek to fasten upon.
Jacob IL. Schiif, who is actively con
cerned in the deal. is in reality the head
and front of the Capitalization of capt.
tai known as Kuhn, Loeb x Co.. the
financial hackers of Mr.. Hill
As laws enacted in number of the
states traversed by these great lines
forbid the actual consolidation of com
peting lines, it would perhaps be more
accurate to say that "A pooling Of the
interests of the three roads has been
determined upon, although as far as the
dear public is concerned a pooling of
interests means consolidation, no more
and no less
1t is understood by men on the street
who have watched Mr.. HIS maneu-
NerS during the past two years. and his
various attempts to perfect the actual
of the Northern Pacific
with the Great Northern. that Mr.. Hill
this browning scheme of all
at the time of the reorganization of the
Union Pacific. At that time he made
the attempt to have &. :. Mellen, the |
present president of the Northern Pa |
cifie, appointed president of the Union |
Pacific. and To have Daniel $. Lamont |
take Mr.. Mcllen's place on the former
road. This scheme. il will be remem-
bered, did not go through and Horace
s. Burt Marvin liughitts man. VAS
the presidency OF the Union |
Pacific.
The Deutsche bank is following Mr.
Hill lead in this matter. as il has cen- (
sidered him a good pilot since IT invested (
II Northern Pacific pursuant to this adj
vice, and has transferred its aff ctilns 10 /
him from r.. -. Adams, who formerly
represented the banks interests ia tn S
Jacob Schin. or rather the firm
IF Kuhn. Loeb n Co. is therefore Nir-
ually representing the Beutsehe hank in
his country and IN this deal although
:. u. Adams is still their nominal repre-
Those who are on the inside claim that
his unheard of and gigantic enterprise
$ we'll under way. and Is already APP
,roaehing its contamination What Il 1
means to the people Of the Northwest and
Vest let other people toll who have lived
Inder the domination of "A railroad that
las mad no competition Ii means. II Mr.. /
HIS plans succeed that hc will become .
virtual dictator in all of the states
through which these roads operate. and
yili exercise Il tyrannicai influence upon
he traffic Of tn" fair.st sections al the
United Statcs.-rhe Times.
NJ. G. Kimberley of ST Paul general
superintendent ~ tho Northern paciiie. .
&. q. Prarce. assistant general snpcrin-
cndeut at Tacoma. II. NJ Herr. sHperin-
endent Of motive power. aud X. NJ. u
samhert. general storckocpcr We're in the
lily yesterday on Mr., kimhcrlNs private
ar The officers are making a tour ut
of the road AMI they went
lxer To Anaconda ia the afternoon.
II is stated that the conference between
General Manager Bancroft of the Short
inc and the officials of the Montana
Mon few daN- ago resulted in u final
adjustment of the difference heretofore
xiSting etNspW the TWO roads r. afr%s