The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-02-14
Railroads
TIPS FOR GERMANY ".
"Trahic Policy of the Milwaukee
Road Subject for Economic
Sermon to Germans.
DR.. Walther Lott Admires Its Sys-
TEN for the Development Of
It's Territory.

DR.. Walther Lott of Munich, who Wis
tied the Columbian exposition in 1898, ana
made q study of manufacturing lndus-
tries--raw material. supplies. appllca ton
Of machinery. labor and business methods,
along the Milwaukee road, has in the 1908
issue of Patra. Berlin. an article in which
he calls attention. to the influence OIL
traffic policy (Verkehrspolitik) on the de-
velopment of the state. Among other
Illustrations he cites as an example the
Industrial policy of a railway system with
which he became acquainted on visit to
the United States (the Milwaukee, The
professor says that this railway COM
pany endeavors to accomplish. by del1ber-
ate n1ea sures, for Wisconsin,, Minnesota,
Illinois, Iowa and other states traversed
by it, that which Colbert, the secretary
Of finance of Louis XIV, was hardly able
to achieve with all the power Of French
absolutisrn at his back, namely. the Gre.
alton of industries on large scale. The
territory of the railway i'll question was
largely agricultural. The traffic from an
agricultural territory is not always uni
form in volume and it was essential that
the company develop more manufacturing
on its system.
Professor Lott then proceeds to show
how the company, through its Industrial
department, attempts to secure the full
est development of it's resources; how
the discovery Of minerals and other raw
materials is reported; how local parties
consult with the railway company on the
development of enterprise, and that in
this relation the company is in touch with
every point on it's SYSTEM; how the re-
sources Of the line are made known
throughout the east, with a view OF
inducing eastern manufacturers to es-
tablish western plants and induce eastern
capital to embark on western enterprises,
and how inquiry from manufacturers is
created. He further shows that, when
an industry is about to be established, the
traffic department. considers the matter
In all it's relations and rates are agreed
upon.
He intimates that the friends Of
DEVELOPMENT for eastern Germany could
prodtably study this American railway
system's policy and believes that, If
something similar were undertaken, the
industrial development of eastern Ger
many would be still further augmented.
Louis Jackson, industrial commissioner
OF the Milwaukee, at Chicago, has recently
issued two maps Of Wisconsin, one show
ing by colors the territory where the IA
nous Wisconsin binder tobacco is raised
and the other gives the location Of water
powers. timber, copper mines, and so on
Considerable attention is to be paid by
Mr. 3acksons department to Minnesota
Mr. jackson, in the Brief History of the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul Railway
said: "Manufa curing in the west is in its
infancy. From the Atlantic seaboard tC
the Mississippi river can now be said tt
be the manufacturing territory Of the
United States: manufacturing has not ye1
crossed the Mississippi in any great sense
of the word. Iowa and Minnesota are
probably the next great manufacturing
states