The Tacoma times. [volume] (Tacoma, Wash.) 1903-1949, 1904-09-07
MOST GIGANTIC oCTUPUs IN THE WORLD
(Contributed.)

ern Pacific and Burlington gysems " - w " ~
resoue individual backed by his Great
Northern system, with its 5,SS
earnings.
'ao t Of I'Ss SRa n s a %
ing besides the combined resources the Union Southern and Milwaukee
ysem with their mileage
ngs this of than s1S5.OoO.OoO
Such is the titanic combination
of its paake
ping facilities of Tacoma ceneng
AS the prelmnaes
favorable result of the
stoned Mr. James of
acquire terminal and docage grounds
Southern Pacific Milwaukee DAD
He the accordingly proceeded
take title by practical
Earring president of the Chicago Milwaukee
request William Rockefeller In
manner there recently purchased
large area ndeatS in front this city to be used for railroad tracks
and terminal
water upon the stipulation rail
road docks and warehouses; according plans filed by him the office
Of the state land commissioner.
The operation secrecy
Union Pacific the
whole subject as much possible excitement dep
values and thereby the land desired prices The
paign which ndi
eeons several points finally and publicly announced
and still hardly
For long have suffered the oregonan
being onearoad town and dreay have
the vain, woods
have strained for when looms buk and bigger than
And finding that we do not shout or throw up our hats or waste
match for bonfire but vocatons
O
o realize d no
other
the comparison
Tacoma accessibility all other essential features of merit to
corporations
in Bill ushered
violently
sufficient n he 84
own
building ships pulled the heavy downn him. for in the
endavor with him using of even much half
they Columbia psabe
of shoals and bars
entirely dangh and that they
bring their Sound where large be
loaded
Mr. Hill may have this tardy consideration ID view
that he would rather build thousand miles of railroad than
a like Minnesota.
is no n time the
railroads terminating here but what will this particular combination
railroads get? /
HILL
That that Pacific crossing
Utah the indicates the Northern
Idaho Washington northern
boundary practically
pointing to his domnonw their numerous coast and interior
feeders including the Milwaukee and Burlington
systems will under the mastery of the Standard Oil ompana
ready the greatest among railroad powers short that company VIII
tremendous distance of
and leased
with quarter of billion gross income and potenay OF that much
the resulting of the Pacific
maintain their political in
dependence
of comparison
political and other combinations of interests showing that these lat
arrehng powerful And being the ia
illustration the pictured the resemblance times without
the life of the nation But he will be perpexd
the requirements 0
Imagine to be large you only comparatively
small part Of at one mea gigantic octopus vast octopus
stupndou thousand Even
relatively small and insignificant in
real mnsos the that the artist must
throw away pencils in helpless despair
This question
hands AS private venture and
is the altogether unspeakb colossal and prodsous a
Adam date for the soaring and understandable ambition of
formidable actors this boundes drama seems reach out for no
the the Pacific seaboad and commerce of
the
|rnEVAIn nOnv sheriff Tom Wood. The pale OF the