The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-12-19
THE HARROW" HER mooRlNes AFTER A rai Al FLIGHT

going south as well as from those 60
ing east. Moreover, after the wheat
is made into flour and started on it's
journey to Europe, very large part
Of it will go by the 500 and Canadian
Pacific to Montreal for export. So that
even it there were to be no changes in
the future, it is now to the interest of
the Canadian Pacific at least not to
oppose, even if it should not particu-
larly favor, the shi pment Of wheat to
the south.
Then, too, the Canadian Pacific has
other interests than those involved in
the mere question of handling the
wheat crop each year. Every dollar
that is invested in western Canada and
try, helps swell the revenue of the Ca
madam Pacific; hence that road is like
lly to favor any policy that will tend
to promote the settlement and develop
ment of the Canadian west. There is
no doubt that if the Minneapolis and
other American mills were to be in the
market regularly for share Of the
would lead to the best kind of aover-
t1slng the Canadian west had ever had
IN the United States and would In
doubtedly promote immigration and
the Investment Of American capital in
western Canada. .s
But there is still another phase of
the subject, which in the complex mesh
OF railway politics now makes it to the
interest of the Canadian Pacific railway
not to, stand in the way of the exporta-
tlon OF wheat to the south. A keen con-
test for power is just beginning be-
tween the Hill railway system and the
Canadian Pacific. The announcement
Of the 500 that it intended to build
from Thief River Falls, Mimi, to Ken
mare. y. D., right thru the heart Of a
aroused the lighting blood of j. j. Hill Iii.
That magnate has Informed his friends
that if the Canadian Pacific, under the
guise of the 500, will insist on invading
the wheat country of the northwestern
states, then the Great Northern can re-
tal1ate at the same game by invading
the wheat country of western Canada.
a glance at a map of North Dakota
shows six Great Northern and Northern
boundary. It is said here that MI. Hi
intends to extend three of these lines
at once into the very heart of the wheat
country of Manitoba and Assiniboia.
The drawback ruling will doubtless
hasten the building Of these lines. It.
Is thought, too,- that a large business
can eventually be built up in hauling
out wheat for export to Europe in bond.
vAAe@A tA'oGJ IL 10 Sel1u GudG NIL.
Hill has become convinced that the duty
on wheat should be repealed, and that
all the influences that he and his rail
way and financial allies can muster, will
be brought to bear to secure the abso-
lgte repeal Of American duty on wheat.
If Canadian wheat is bound to go to
Minneapolis, eventually, the sooner the
Canadian Pacific begins to " cinch'' the
business the better for it.
1t goes without saving. that western
Canada would welcome the extension Of
the Great Northern and Northern Paci-
fic lines into Manitoba and Assiniboia.
Nothing would do more to hasten the
population of the Canadian west than
to have q. great! American railway sys-
tenn practically interested in this coun-
try. At present, the Northern Pacific
and Great Northern do what they, can to
keep the settlement from going into the
Canadian west. But the moment they
have hundreds of miles of line in the
wheat country of Manitoba and Assini-
boia, they will be as eager as any one
to get Americans to go in and take up
or buy lands