The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-09-04

in that city. He had seized slender and had
risen slowly until his genius for railroad building was
discovered and developed He grabbed this line and
that one, and extended them lrsI Duluth. Their 10
Winnipeg and then on to the west until by buying
seizing, leasing. building by any means getting lines
and connections, his train reached the Pacific.
OF that whole system he the boss. the master.
His voice the Jupiter Tonans OF the railroad
world of the region. He had bold plans for reaching
out to the Orient and securing the monopoly of
the business with Japan Little did he for the
protests of the people. 1t concern of his
his household word in many parts of the
northwest and almost always with bitterness and an
oath.
We'll. what do you want?7 cried the ear in his
abrupt way
Minds advanced to the desk with his peculiar smile
and told the great of his railroad project ending
with the astonishing request made with simple Dig
nifty for transportation the lines of the road as
a courtesy extended from railroad president to
another
for days, and it caused CONSERVATION throughout the
building After quizzng Minds tho great mogul said:
'All right. I'll give you pass; and then he added
with chuckle. land if you in the same business
at the end of the year, drop in and III it for
you"
Minds left the Office with radiant face He then
directly Duluth. which was TO be the terminus
of the railroad, for there he thought he could
arose interest in business men. But his efforts
apparently fruitless. The newspapers took him
up gayy and had much sport the visit of Farm
er" Minds.
Unwearied and undaunted he then plunged into
the country a journey never before made by
white man. He had been told that in his route lay
lakes and swampS which could not be brdged. He
determined to find out for himself and out foot
to traverse the land between Duluth and the Red
river. The thought of starvation, of dying on the
prairie or in the great woods, being drowned in
the lakes did not come to him. He was dreamer and
he thought of naught the fruition of his dreams
II had become almost summer. He plunged into
the woods, and he who had known for many years
4 land where riding whip was hard to find was al
most crazed by the great pineries Luckily he had
chart and compass. and he held dOggedy to his
route. Now he entered prairie land but found few
titled fields after leaving the towns. How he slept
in hollow logs in the open clearings; how he
hOundered in boys and swamps; how he was well
coined by the tTapper, the frontiersman, the lone
farmer and the Indians of the great reservation all
of whom saved him from famine-these are tales
which he told very seldom. and then only justify
his faith in the divinity of his inspiration. To those
who entertained him he failed to tell OF his
mission, and they all knew that he was sincere but
doubted his nationality He found TO his great joy
that there no serious obstacles his route and
that his first plan entirely feasible so far as the
survey was concerned. In three weeks he had ira
versed the 300 miles and it was with a glad heart
that he the Red river and the town of Brighton
rise into view.
The cold and narrow-minded people of that region,
unresponsiye at first to the appeals of the farmer
railroad builder, we're proof against his earnest
and steady activity in projecting his doctrines, and
it not many months until Minds many railroad
meetings had aroused much friendly interest and
sympathy. Duluth finally seized hold of the enter
prise some capital was provided company was in
salary of SIS month and Brighton made head
quarters In every county the proposed railroad
meetings were held and local organizations were
formed. The scheme became more clearly defined,