The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1899-06-18
Travel on the Logan Branch Was
Resumed Yesterday.
MR.. HILL IN WASHINGTON
He Speaks enthusiastically of the Great
Northwest and Its Trade With the
Orient--Northern Pacific Div
Neutrality-suspicious. To-Day.

| fire was soon extinguished and by
O'Clock yesterday morning workmen
had repaired the bridge and soon
thereafter heavy freight train passed
4 over the line and all trains were again
| moving over the road yesterday. Sun
/ day excursionists who had made ar
| rangements for trips to Pipestone,
| Sacre's ranch and other places along
/ the Northern Pacific can carry out
/ their plans.
President Hill of the Great Northern
i IS still on the coast somewhere and it Is
expected he will return east by the way
| of Butte Accompanying President Hill
are Vice President T. Miller and Cen
eral Superintendent F. E. Ward of the
| Great Northern and c. D. Gilfllan and
1 son and DIR. c. e. Smith of st. Paul,
who are the guests of Mr.. HILL
/ While at Seattle President Hill at
/ tended a banquet given Tuesday eve
ming by the Rainier club in honor of
4 Senator Fairbanks of Indiana. Mr.. Hill
| was one of the principal speakers of the
/ evening and delivered the following adj
dress on the subject of Our Merchant
| Marine:"
! TT is fair to assert that the census of
| 1900 will show that S0,000,000 people are
| in the United States, not including the
residents of the Philippine islands; that
/
/ 1920 25,000000, more than four times
| the population Of the United States at
| the commencem emit of the civil war
/ Where will they go? What will they
/ do? How are they to be fed? are the
/ questions, and they must be answered,
| There is no part more favored in the
| answer to this important query than
| the state of Washington. Its seas are
| teeming with vigor and food; it's fields
| and forests are valued at the highest
| appraisement to mankind; its mines
| are filled with everything of value and
| useful in all the professions of the
| world. There are more precious metals
| in this state of Washington than in any
| other state of the union. Coal, iron,
| gold, silver, copper, lead and almost ev-
cry other conceivable metal abound in
| the greatest needed quantity. think
| the people do not realize what they pos
sess With the coal and iron alone
| there is no reason why steel should not
| be made on the Pacific coast cheaper
| than in any other part of the world
| The statement that there are these
| things here that will make this one of
|. the chief ports of the commercial world
has been criticised; but these allega-
tions have been made chiefly because
| the people have not seen the CONNER.
| cial side of these great industries. Min
| nesota may hardly be called mineral,
| but in the advance of the United States
/ has come to the forefront as a producer
| of cheap steel. We have coal, coke and
| iron in sight of each other and why
| why should we not take a front place
i in the world in the manufacture of
| steel?
I'm Asia half of the population of the
world lives not SO barbarous as civilized
! people suppose, but so civilized that
when we go back to twilight their de-
| velopment was antique. In the time of
/ Abraham the shepherd, China was
| great. 1t was called on to solve the
| problems of government 1000 years ago.
| Yon cannot call that government lack
| ing in permanence and strength. / was
struck by remark made by a man 1
sent to China and kept there a year.
| He was a trained statistician, and was
| forced to leave Asia because of his race
that of a Jew. He said the Chinese
| were the first people in trade and COM
merce that his people had found to be
| their masters.
. Between Kamchatka and Singapore
you find half the population of the
/ globe. When you contemplate sne i'm
mensity of this condition, you realize
that you must do something"
At Spokane President Hill met Presi-
| dent Mohler of the o. r. & NJ, with
| whom he had conference. A Chroni-
Gle reporter interviewed Mr. Hill, with
| the following result:
What do you want to know about
| the weather? 1t couldn't be better'
/ said Mr.. Hill when the reporter intro
duced himself.
How about the railroad business? Is
| the Great Northern going to build any
| banch lines or extensions in this coun-
try?"
I'VE Just came in from the west and
I must say that / am much pleased
| with the development of the country
| that is apparent all along the line This
/ country has a great future"
"But how about the line which it is
said you are to build to Republic?"
ooh, I can't say anything about that
/ That is fine country up north, too, but
| it needs opening up | have just re-
ceiVed a letter in regard to the new line
| that the Canadian Pacific is gong to
| run into the Bonner's Ferry country
| That is destined to become one of the
| greatest mining districts in the coun-
/ try
But how about the Great Northern?
| What is it going to build?''
/ New engines and new cars as fast as
we need them to handle our increasing
| business
What, if anything, is the meaning of
| the meeting between yourself and
| President Moher?"
Now that is something of the great
/ est Importance to the public. Mohler
was raised on our road, and when I
/ come west | always manage to meet
| him and have a friendly chat. If
/ don't go south to see him, he comes
north to meet me, and that's all there
| is to our meeting. And by the way, he
| is now waiting for me and you will
| have to excuse me-"
With that he climbed on President
| Mothers car, leaving the reporter
| standing on the platform wondering
| what he had found out.
|
| There was perfect unanimity of SEN
| timent in regard to the dividend matter
| at the Northern Pacific meeting in New
| York last Wednesday. There had been
no doubt whatever that the common
| stock was to receive l per cent for the
! next six months. The dividend may be.
| regarded as a semi-annual dividend
| No other action was taken at the meet
ing.
The Short Line park will be opened
| for the season next Sunday unless some