The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1905-07-13
Octopus Charge Natural.

system, including it's land-owning ac-
tivities, should fall under the charge of
being an octopus. Feeling has run
against it at times in the west, but ap-
parently not so seriously as that Of our
own southwest, and particularly Cali
fornia, against the Southern Pacific.
George HI. Ham,, an assistant to the
president Of the road, tells how he met
a man in Winnipeg one day who an
that he proposed to jump on the Ca
madam Pacific, y much as Horace Gree
ley IS subscriber announced that he had
stopped0 the Tribune.
- You intend to jump on the c.. P.
R., do you9" answered Mr.. Ham, pro-
:ceeding on the theory that soft an,
swer turneth away wrath. "Then I
would advise you to buy a, ticket first,
for otherwise the conductor is liable to
put you off at the next station"
G. P. r. Press Association.
Not only does the G. P. R. operate
most, Of the telegraph lines Of Cam
ada, so that the everyday businessman
writes his commercial messages on pa
per stamped, "The Canadian Pacific
Company's Telegraph but it in effect
sages, containing the news of the
world which pass over its lines, are dis
tributed in bulletin form on it's trains,
and at Important stations These are
known as G. Pr. bulletins Certain
newspapers are described as having
the &C. P. R. SERVICE as a sort Of
embryonic Associated Press
It is remarkable the extent to which
railway and telegraphic operations
Of way is the same; the railroad itself
is the largest user Of the wires, and it
is wasteful in small places to maintain
one operator at the station and another
a block away for commercial messages
when this might as well be done by the
same man. The American telegraph
companies have found this out, too,
and in not a few instances have made
this combination.
In the Steamboat Business.
The Canadian Pacific railroad went
into the steamboat business to make
traffic for it's railroad lines, and the
! story as William Whyte, the second
| vice president, tells it, Of the small be-
ginnings in Pacific trade and its pres.
ent proportions, is one of the romances
of commerce. British Columbia shin.
giles for the Chinese to use in building
this new line decided to find a mar
ket for across the seas. It chartered
few small ships and began operations
until today Mr.. Whyte thinks he fore.
sees the time when the company's traf.
fc across the Pacific will be as i'm
portant as that over the north Atlantic
which has for a century been the great
highway Of the ocean commerce of the
| world. ss
| G. P. R. Is Big Landholder.
The Canadian Pacific is an enormous
| landholder, but so DESTROYS is it to fill
its lands with people, instead of wait
| ing for the unearned increment that
Henry George tells about, that every
device known to the modern real estate
promoter to push sales and encourage
the small homeseeker, has been utilized
An exceedingly small cash payment
suffces. Only a low. rate of interest is
charged on the balance, and the house.
holder may have as many years as he
wants within which to pay.
This city is the scene Of the most
audacious enterprise in the way Of pro.
noting the sale Of land that the con.
tinent affords. The tourist is apt to
ask why anyone should irrigate land in
western Canada when there is a super
abundance Of acres sufficiently watered
/ by nature that it will take generations
1 for the demands of population to utilize
them all. Why should the Canadian
Pacific railroad spend $5,000,000 on If
| rigation works, Of a magnitude that
suggests the excavation at Panama.
Diversified Traffic.
! There were several reasons for the
investment, but not the least Of then
was this: No railroad wants a freight
traffic which comes all at the same sea
son in the year. The movement Of
wheat is such a business within certain
limitations. Irrigation here, as in thu
United, States, develops a different kline
of agriculture, a more intensive use Of
the soil, and as result different line
Of products. For the present it i!
] probable that stock raising and dairy
/ products will be the chief industries
4 of the irrigated area about here. TIL,
experiment is of peculiar interest to tn,
United States, where the government
has wisely undertaken the work of re
clamatio while here it is conducted
strictly as piece of private enterprise
Eventually, 100000 acres will b.
4 watered, at a cost for the origina
plant Of not to exceed Sc an acre; Thu
expense of maintenance, for which tn
i Canadian Pacific railroad will make al
annual charge, is computed at SO cent
an acre.
Hoodwinks the Oculist. Madden Eye
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