The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-10-29
TITANS FIGHTING. +.
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= FOR SUPREMACY
GREATEST RAILROAD BUILDING
WAR IN WORLDS HISTORY. - ,
Three Giant Companies Engaged in
Fierce Struggle. with a Fourth Ready
to Get In at a Moment s Notice
Battle Ground Reaches from the Mis-
souri, to Great Salt Lake. ~ ~. -
Srecial to The journal. }

Special to The Journal 80. - a. : / 2
Omaha, Neb., Oct. 28.-The most
gigantic railroad building war that the
world has ever seen has opened aup an
the trans-Missouri country, and a three
cornered fight between three giant conn
banies, with fourth diminishing on
to 20 in at a moment 81 warning, is in
progress. The Union Pacific and other
Hartman railroads, the Burlington and
the other Hill lines and the; North
Western railroad are the three great
corporations engaged; and the ;MilWan-
kee is waiting to enter the battle. The
prize is transcontinental traffic of
nation. H. . e. ~
Between Omaha and Great Salt
battle-ground reaches .entirely4ss.from
the Missouri to the lake; railroad con-
struction will be carried :, along the
whole way and the lines, which are
already announced as being sunde cons.
struction, aggregate nearly. 2,500 miles
Of tracks. When the smoke of battle
clears away the following changes on
Union Pacific will be in Sioux City
not an actual road, into Chicago, and
will have built 500 miles Of new tracks
in western Nebraska and Wyoming.
The Burlington will have a line into
Salt Lake City, a line from Denver
northward to its present line in the
Big Horn basin Of Wyoming, line up
the North Plattf valley IL Nebraska
states. the North Western will have a
line through from Chicago to ssalt
Lake City and will be. independent of
the Union Pacific, and will have at
least one and probably two lines in
Denver; the Colorado g. Southern will
have retired from the Wyoming field
altogether; the Illinois 4 Central may
have disposed Of it's lines west of Chi
cago to the Union Pacific. and the Mil
pwaukee may start for the coast, despite
| the denials of President Miller. II,
| Northwestern Started Row. :.
| The North W estern started the row
by building into central Wyoming, and
| from thence planning a line to Salt
Lake City. With a line 1900 miles
westward from Chicago, the managers
of the North " esterns decided to buiild
] thru line, rather than a l,2O0.mile loca
line The North-W Western has been al
work on this Wyoming extension al
summer, and it will be completed thru
to Salt Lake valley by next summer
When this is completed, the North
/ Western will carry traffic: thrus from
4 Chicago on its own tracks and vii
cease giving the Union Pacific its thru
4 business at Omaha. On its side, Unio1
j Pacific will, naturally, throw; its east
ern business to another line east o.
4 Omaha, and North Western will build Il
Denver, which it has long Threatened
TO do. 81.
H. Lats week the Burlington entered th
1 fight, officially announcing q new lin
from its Nebraska terminus to Sal
Lake City, together with numerou
!! feeder lines in Nebraska and Wyoming
/ The announcement came froms Genera
Manager Holdrege, This is d diree
. invasion of Union Pacific terntory, q
well as an invasion of territory thr1