The Seattle star. [volume] (Seattle, Wash.) 1899-1947, 1904-06-21
WHY HARTMAN WANTS
TG Get into SEATTLE

wade their territory aa quick an men
can build new lines.
Meanwhile his opponents In the
game Of railroad checkers have been
busy IN attempting 10 hold as much
Of their territory as possible. liar-
rlman has "A certain advantage over
his opponents In "a water grade over
the mountains. This ia pointed out
as one uf the chief reasons why bis
competitors fear his entrance into
the Puget Sound territory,
The United States government
doses not seem 20 be particularly
anxious about sinking much money
at the mouth OF the Columbia river,
which fills up AS fast as dredgen can
clean Il cut The expense OF keep
ms a channel through the Columbia
bar IL too great for private capital
and Portland must be cOntented.
while Nj Hartman must seek an
other ocean outlet for his lines.
Seattle il the moat convenient
point At which he can locate and
here he must come. Here he could
share the Puget Sound traffic with
the other lines aud get part OF the
great profit in
INCREASING BUSINESS
beween Seattle aud Portland. In do
ing his he IL simply carrying
out the plans OF the Union Pacific
which we're abandoned owing TO
hard times twelve years ago.
These are some of the reasons
given ~ Railroad men why Mt liar
fiman IL coming to the Sound and
the reason Bhy he IN now buying a
terminal Ia the Seattle tide lands
Three years more. according %
those who are ON the inside of the
Transaction. viii SEQ Hnrriman'u
trains running into Seattle over his
uWu falla
The recent visit Of A. D ErlinE.
president ~ the Chicago. Milwaukee
a St Paul. a. Washington and Ore
son aud bis extended trip over the
lines Of the Hartman system. 10
to have some bearing I
upon the present railroad move
ment The standard oil company. /
President ErlluR 81 the Milwaukee. /
aud Nj Hartman are closely ldcn- !
Titled In many ways.
Il has been understood for years I
that the Milwaukee would Ike TO
GET TO THE COAST.
aud certain interests controlled by /
the road IN this territory shows that I
that line viii have a ter I
mlnal here. The present Western /
terminua of the Milwaukee 10 al /
EKaft aud Chamberlain. South Da-
kota President Efling built the
line from Blaekfoot 10 salmon. Ida
no. supposedly Tor the purpose Of
later extending the Milwaukee 20 /
that point aud thence To the coast.
The Hlaekfooi salmon line 10 n0s /
used BY the Oregon short Line. a
Hartman road. and u IL believed T.
that the Wait Of the Milwaukee pres I
idens over the Hartman system has
some connection with the project of 1
building the Hartman lines 20
Puget sound
II Il suggested that the Milwaukee I
will build from either Evart or
T. u. 20 Blackf0ot. Z
Idaho. and from saimon 90 seattle. 4
OF some other Puget sound polnt. .
and that Hartman will project his
line from Portland to seattle
This would give Hartman aud
the AtlNaukee . complete circuit
aud place them In competition with
the Northern Pacific and the Great
Northern This would also give the
standard OH company a coast chain
80 that Rockefeller could ship his
oil alnnK the Pacific coast over lines
that are thoroughly In simplify
Nth him.
The STANDARD Oh companyH big
purchase Of property 10 Tacoma a
short time ago. il said TO have some
connection with the
BIG RAILROAD PLAN.
and ioeAl railroad men are Of the
opinion that some such frame up