Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1900-08-11
OF ID. R. IL
Extent of Relations of Northwest.
ern With New Tri-City
Road.
SAID TO BE ABOUT ENDED
Talk About the Three rs" in
a New Combina-
ton.

The annual report of the Chicago &
Northwestern railroad contains list
of the lines and proprietary compa-
MES whose stocks are owned by the
Northwestern. and whose lines form a
part of it's system. There are good
many of these, but it is interesting to
note that the name of the Davenport,
Rock Island IL Northwestern does not
appear in any of them. Whatever
the interest of the Northwestern in
this system there is nothing in the
open admissions of the Northwestern,
so far, to indicate that there is any
connection beyond an interchange of
traffic between them. There are re-
ports here to the effect that the d r.
|. & n. w. is not happy over it's ar
rangement with the Northwestern;
that the little line is not as independ-
ent as it would like. 1t is reported in
this connection. that the D., r. l. &
n. w. will welcome the connection
that it will soon have with Chicago
via the Indiana, Illinois IL Iowa, with
which it is known to have close rela-
tions.
All this, however, does not take into
account the fact that if it wants to do
business to the westward the ID K. |.
" n. w. must do it over the North
western. There is no other line open
to it and there is not likely TO be any
other. This makes it look as though
there might be something in the sug-
gestion that this talk of hostility 10
the Northwestern is raised as blind.
In addition there has been the ru-
NOR heretofore alluded to that the D..
Z. /. & y. W. is to be but part of a
railroad system extending from the
north to New Orleans and that a con-
nection with the Illinois Central is
but part of the scheme. By the
Moline, Galesburg and Havana line
the large coal fields of Fulton county,
as we'll as those north of there, would
be availa ole to the new road. Canton
wants the line, and it's people are
working to get it away from Gales
burg. I'm any case" says Can
ton paper, lit is a certainty that
surveys are being made through Full
ton county. The road is not to ter
inmate at Galesburg. Whether it
goes from there on an air line to
Peoria, or more southerly in the direc-
ton Of Peoria or Havana, seems as
yet to be an undecided question. If
this line does not utilize one of the old
grades from Canton to the Illinois
river, and penetrate the great unde-
veloped coal fields in this country,
some rival ultimately will -
A Milwaukee special says the Mil
waukee and Northwestern agreement
not to invade each others territory is
terminated and that there is sharp
hostility between the roads. Efforts
of the Northwestern to run tracks
into the Milwaukee's territory and
similar contests elsewhere are taken
to indicate the probable truth of the
rumor. This attracted much atten-
tion in the street and Chairman Mil
Ter took occasion to ray: There
never was any arrangement between
the Milwaukee and the Northwestern
that would prevent one building lines
in the territory of the other. The
Northwestern is at perfect liberty to
build where it pleases. The Milwau-
kee has the same privilege. The
Northwestern showed some activity
in the Milwaukee's territory last year,
but it is not so active this year"