The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-03-31
RAILROADS.
HARTMAN And
HILL RELATIONS
THEY ARE NOW OF THE FRIEND
= g q y y - IIEST SORT.
Hartman Said in the East to Have
Thwarted Morgan-Hill Conspiracy
to Cut OF a Big Chunk of Union
Pacific Business.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal. ,h 49,
New York; March 31.-"Mr. Harri-
man expects that when the final adj
justment Of this Northern; Securities
affair Is effected the Hartman sys-
tenn will be- in a stronger position with
respect to Pacific coast trade than it
ever was before. He expects in the
long run to carry the great bulk Of
all Pacific trade to San francisco, San
Pedro and Portland, and to have his
share of the. trade thru Puget sound
ports as well. The Hill plan in the
first place was intended to shut him
out from the north, but it has failed,
and the failure brought about the
community of interests between Har-
riman and HILL"
This statement comes from one who
has been with Mr.. Hartman thru the
building up of his Pacific business,
policy and workings Of the Hartman
systems.
Emphasis is laid on the fact that
the Hartman system is to reach the
north Pacific ports. The original plan
OF Mr.-H1ll@ and MT Morgan was in
tended to settle for all time that Mr..
Hartman should not reach the Puget
sound ports over any line at all. They
intended by the purchase of Burling-
ton TO cut OIL at the eastern emu IAG
natn connections of Union Facific-
They had definite idea that so per
cent Of the traffic that went west over
Union Pacific in 1897 could be di-
verted to the ports of the north if
the full use Of Burlington's power
was in the hands of Northern Pacific
and Great Northern. That idea was
the cause of the fight for Northern
Pacific Mr.. Hill fully intended that
the largest part Of the export BUSH
ness Of San Francisco should be taken
from that port by the Puget sound
ports.
Now Mr.. Hartman says he thinks
he has won his fight. He has a share
in the ownership Of Burlington. He
is director of that road and be-
lieves he can manage to prevent any
drafting Of the trade Of Union Pa
cific by the Hill lines.
Mr.. Hartman is building a new
route to southern California. He never
would have started the San Pedro
route, and certainly he never would
have carried it thru If he had failed
in defensive measures that were de-
signed to ensure to the Hartman lines
their share of the business from the
east to the vest. So far as Union Pa
cifc is concerned the fight Of Mr.. Har-
rimany meant the difference between
the business Of merely local line
and the business of great trunk line
possibly the greatest Of all the west
ern trunk lines
The distribution Of the Northern
Pacific assets seems to have cemented
the relations between Hill and Harri-
man that will safeguard the territory
of the two from any Invasion by the
other. They are brought close to-
gether-so close that the people Of
the northwest and the southwest as
represented by the big shippers Of
the two regions cannot expect from
them anything that has any SEM
blance to the competition that used
to be carried on between Northern
Pacific and Great Northern. IF there
are any great transcontinental rate
wars in the future that involve these
lines the war will not be between Hill
and Hartman. It will be between
Hill and Hartman on the one hand
and the Canadian Pacific and the 500
line on the other. The Hill and Har-
rir1an people must stand together,
because IL they do not they will dis
rupt Burlington, fight in the courts
over equities in Northern Pacific and
fall out over Great Northern. They
will sit conformity on the boards Of
directors OF all three roads and Union