Daily inter mountain. [volume] (Butte, Mont.) 1881-1901, 1901-01-24
NEW GENIUS
Of THE WEST
EASTERN PEOPLE BEGINNING TO
REALIZE JIM HILLS GREAT
ABILITY.
SOME OF THE WORK
HE HAS ACCOMPLISHED.
The Great Northern is Recognized as
One of the Greatest Railroad
Systems in the World.

Eastern papers of late have comment
ed at length on the new genius who
has come out of the west and is today
recognized as one of the greatest rail-
road men that the country has ever
known. The reference, of course Is in
regard to James j. Hill, president of
the Great Northern railway, and while
the people of the east have only re-
Gently known the man in his true light,
the people of the west have known of
his ability and accomplishments for
many years.
The casual observer hardly realizes
that the Great Northern with its pro-
prietary lines is one of the greatest
railroad corporations in the United
States, and it's magnificent proportions
are the product of one mans energy,
who has been ably assisted by staff
OF the best officers procurable.
This big system grew out of The old
st. Paul & Pacific railway, operating
from st. Paul to ST. Cloud and Delano,
Mimi, distance of about 100 miles,
when James j. Hill took hold of the
ANA1iS' ->oC " penny W dS SttDSCtlDeu ny
the public and not a foot of land was
accepted from the government free since
that time. At the present rate Of prog
ress it will be the best railway system
in the United States in a few years,
and it is now acknowledged to be the
best financed system in America
The lines actually operated by the
Great Northern railway shows a mile
aSe OF 5l9l miles, and these figures do
NOT include the proprietary interests in
the other lines. The system operates
i'll nine states of the Union and in Brit
| ish Columbia The nine states referred
to are: Montana, Wisconsin, Iowa. Ne
braska, Minnesota, North Dakota, South
Dakota, Idaho and Washington.
The lines eff the Great Northern rail-
way and its proprietary lines may be
classed as follows:
Great Northern Railway company
Wlmar d Sioux Falls Railway COM
pany.
Park Rapids & Leach Lake railway.
Duluth, WatertoWn & Pacific railway.
Moorhead & Southeastern railway.
Moorhead & Northern railway.
Fairhaven II Southern railway.
Seattle & Northern railway.
Seattle, Lake Shore & Eastern rail-
way.
Seattle & Mont ana railway.
l<ootenay Valley railway.
spokane Falls e. Northern railway.
Nelson & Fort Shepherd railway.
Eastern Railway Company of Mime
| sofa.
Duluth, Superior & Western railway.
Duluth, Mississippi River & Northern
| Railway company.
Duluth, Superior g. Western Terini1lal
| company.
Duluth Terminal railway
Swan River Logging company
Montana Central Railway company.
Mason City e. Fort Dodge railway.
st. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba rail-
| way.
Pacific Short Line.
Sioux City 4 Western Railway COM
| pany.
Sioux City & Norther;. Railroad COM
| pany.
Sioux Falls Terminal Railway COM
| pany.
International Navigation & Trading
company.
Bedlington & Nelson railway
| Washington & Columbia River rail-
| way.
Minneapolis Union railway
| Minneapolis Western railway,
| KaslO e. SLOGAN railway.
Northern Steamship company.
| Pacific Coast Steamship company.
Kootenay Railway & Navigation COM
| pany
1t will be seen that this list includes
| four steamship companies. and with the
| steamship companies the line of the
| Great Northern reaches from Seattle,
| Wash, to Buffalo, N. Y. The list does
not include proprietary interests in the
oregon Railway & Navigation company,
! the Butte Anaconda 4 Pacific the
\ Northern Pacific railway. the Baltimore
& Ohio railway and the Erie railway. In
1 addition to these, the Great Northern
| operates the Great Northern express
the Sand Coulee Coal company and the
Cottonwood Coal company.
Two twin screw cargo and passenger
steamers to run between seattle and the
Orient are now in course of construc-
ton in the yards of the Eeastern Ship
building company at New London
Conn. and will be ready for launching
this fall. They will be $50 feet in length
| 73 foot beam, S3 feet draught, $4,000 ton:
displacement. and have capacity o.
$4,000 tons measurement capacity. The
speed under normal draught Will be l.
knots. and the cost of the steamers vii
be 81 800, COO each.
They will be the largest freight steam
ers in the world, and if one of them wa
placed on Main street in Butte it woul'
reach from the northern wall of III IN
nessy's store to the south side of Parl
street and would be wider than tn
| space between the buildings on eacI
side of the street. Two more simla
steamers are to be ordered by the Grea
; Northern as soon as the two now unie
construction are completed.