The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-01-12
IS HILL BACKING
new. FRISCO Line?
This Seems to Be the General I'M
preston Turnout the
West.

Impression Is gaining ground that the
secret operations which have been car
ried on in the west the last two years
for the new San Francisco, Idaho g.
Montana railroad, were responsible for
the frequent statements from San Fran
cisco that j. j. Hill was going to enter
that city over his own line.
Inasmuch2 as neither the Northern
Pacific nor Great Northern lines is in
any wise hostile to the move of the
new road to- build an air line from
Butte, which will shorten the time from
here to the coast city twenty-four hours,
that fiji pas IS sponser forg the s new
road. The statement that the new road
is already financed, without application
to- the general public for funds. is an
other significant. feature.
No other roads would. profit so much
as the. two transcontinent by the
building. Of the new line. Now the
two Hill lines reach San Francisco by
way Of the north coast cities and the
Southern Pacific. The new line would
give direct connection and would save
the long haul for southern California
traffic. s, - $50
Frisco Welcomes New Line.
San Francisco papers are full of the
projected line. The city evidently halls
G4ett auVent u Inc lnuspenueHC OF
Huntington control. Editerially the
papers appear to believe that the en-
terprise is well backed. Apparently
they have inside information. In that
City it is reported in some quarters
that the Illinois Central is the respon-
slble road, as it has also been charged
with building the new line to Duluth
from Chicago. The Central's backing
is denied absolutely, however, by, re.
tSDOnSlbIa nArSOnS hit q like -1ania1 Of
the Hill rum0rs is not forthcoming.
Mum is the word at headquarters about
the whole project,
In Salt Lake it is generally accepted
that the Hill interests are back of the
new road. The Hill backwardness
heretofore; about entering the territory
to be opened by the new line is said
with E. III. Hartman about the division
of territory. This agreement is likely
| to have q severe shock
Salt Lake correspondence to the
Evening Capital News Of Boise has this
to say on the matter:
Reports to the contrary notwith-
standing, I believe that when the true
bare that Hill will be found in the
background. / do not believe that the
new road will be built at once, but
rather that it will be held up as club
to make Hartman behave, much in the
same fashion as Gould has been tinker
ing along with the Western Pacific
project for the past two years. The
fact that President Mason and Vice
President Fleming are both Mime
apolis capitalists strengthens the i'm
preston that the new road is to be
either an extension to the coast of the
Burlington, which is now building 8
branch to tap the Mormon settlements
or an invasion Of the Hartman terri
tory by. the Great Northern. Hill is
strong in Minneapolis, and it is only
citizens to father the scheme until il
was ready to nail its true colors to the
mast. That is the way most Of the
railroads are built nowadays
I. Out west some profess to believe tina,
the North Western road is out for al
!: extension to the coast by this means.