Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-08-08
Railroad Building in the North
west Promises to Be Very
Active From Now On
HILL HAS A GREAT PROJECT
The Dakota Midland Said to be Almost
Sure Of Observation-Disclosures Pacific
May Build to Sioux City From Nor
foIk-Harriman to Compete With
Burlington.

Sioux City, Aug. S.-According to
the best authorities, and special in
uuiries, the territory surrounding
Sioux City is to see, within the next
year, railroad activities which will
connect 5000 miles of railroad with
Sioux City.
An extension of the Great Northern
from O'Neill to Thedford, Neb., is talk
dof.
Already the Great Northern and Bur-
lngton have granted Sioux CITY
freight rates to points west of Raven
ma Neb., bur. a few miles east of Thed-
ford, which will enable the Sioux City
wholesalers to compete with Omaha;
eliminate Kansas City and st. Joseph
and establish, beyond reasonable
doubt, an abundant field for the sale
of Sioux City goods
That the Great Northern contem-
plates the Thedford extension is be-
yond doubt. Surveyors have gone over
the line twice since the beginning OF
this year, and the announcement that
this line will be constructed, from an
official source, is expected daily.
For some time the Union Pacific has
contemplated an extension of its line
from Norfolk to Sioux City, which
would connect this market center with
1856 miles of Union Pacific, both OF
which lines E. H. Hartman controls.
The railroad editor of the Chicago
Tribune is responsible for the follow
ing statement in regard to the Union
Pacific extension:
Not cortent with having more or
less of a corner on the traffic between
the Missouri river and the middle and
south Pacific coast, E. H. Hartman is
now going to build enough branch lines
in the intervening territory to make
the Union Pacific an active competitor
for local freight. This is complete
change of policy, as the energies OF
the Hartman roads hitherto have
been conferred upon building up the
thru business between the river and
the seaboard. This business has been
given the rails of the Union Pacific by
the half dozen or more roads between
Chicago or Mississippi points and the
Missouri, and anything that interfered
with this business has been pushed
aside. Local traffic was left for other
roads to develop, and that which came
to the Union Pacific was taken at good
rates.
Rails Will Gridiron States.
"Kansas and Nebraska will be grid
ironed with rails, and Hartman will
enter into active competition with the
Burlington, Northwestern, Rock Island,
Missouri Pacific and st. Paul. Harri-
man intends to get his full share of the
traffic developed in this section.
"One OF the first lines to be built will
be a 100 mile line from Norfolk to
Sioux City"
An advance folder and time card of
the Union Pacific Railroad Company
which wild be issued Friday, August
10, will show line of Union Pacific
from Norfolk to Sioux City. AS the
Union Pacific and Northwestern have
close traffic connections, it is sup
posed NJ. Hartman plans on coming
to Sioux City over the lines of the
| Northwestern and Omaha roads, and
would use the Omaha high bridge and
| terminals in Sioux City.
| Hills activity in getting into what
Hartman has always chosen to con-
slider his exclusive territory has also
had something to do with the present
hurry to corral all the local traffic pos
sible before there is danger Of the
thru business being taken away from
the Union Pacific.
Predictions as to what line the
South Dakota Midland" will be wher
constructed, are still the amusement
and serious consideration of Sioux City
business and railroad men. The east
ern railroad press insists that the
South Dakota Midland is plan OF
James j. Hill to parallel the milwaukee,
and st. Paul and the Northwestern
railroads and cut in on traffic which
his opponent, e. HI. Hartman, counts
as his. The Northwestern is known
as Standard Oil-Harriman line" and
so is the Milwaukee and st. Paul.
The Great Northern and Burlington
are referred to as "Hull-iMorgan lines
The New York Sunday World says on
it's financial page:
"It developed yesterday that James j.
Hill is behind the Dakota Midland rail-
way, which is about to invade the st
Paul territory between Sioux City. Ia.
and Pierre, S. D. The new road is to
run thru part of the great corn belt
of Iowa in competition with st. Paul
Having failed to get control of the ST
Paul in 1901, Mr. Hill has now started
in to parallel the system wherever
possible in retaliation for ST. Paul's
construction of an extension of its
lines to the Pacific coast. j. P. Nor
gan ard his interests are allied with
MIR. Hill, and the Hartman interests
are believed to be in close alliance
with st. Paul All of this is in COM
plete fultilment of E. H. Harrimans
prediction when he returned from
Japan that "the west is about to enter
upon an era of competitive railroad
building instead of competitive railroad
buying"
Lerer Lives Alone on Mountain.
Washington, D. c., Aug. Sin a tent