The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-06-19
FRISCO And SOUND
WILL RULE COAST
OTHER PORTS MUST FOREVER BE
SECONDARY.
New York Banker Sizes Up Situation
q Regarding Pacific Commerce and Rail
way Constructions Building Of New
Lines Amply Justified by Future Poe
sibilities Of Development.
Special to The Journal.

Special to The Journal.
i New York, June ia New York
banker who went to San Francisco last
month has returned with a fixed idea
that only. the beginning has been seen
to the railroad building era which will
ultimately give the Pacific coast cities
a railway service almost as voluminous
as that which New York and Philadel-
phia now enjoy.
San Francisco. he says, tsand
Puget sound will always divide the hon
ors Of the coast. Portland is like Bal
Etimore, or even worse, in its position
among the competitive ports. The big
Gate and at the cities of the sound I
| do not know that any one point on the
sound has any great advantage over
any other point. That is matter Of
depth Of water, local projections. etc.
1t would require a much longer study
than | have been able to give to the
question to decide whether or not Sc
attic and Tacoma have .cinched the
Head forever on the commerce of the
sound. t1r:.s
Have Lead Forever.
81 can see, however, that these two,
San Francisco and the sound, have tax
| of entry on the coast 1t is possible
to make good deep-water ports at San
Pedro and elsewhere, but made port
is never a real rival of natural gate
way. At the two places named there
is unlimited room for growth, splendid
water and ample protection for the
fleets Of all. the world There are no
Eplaces of the kindzon the Pacific coast,
lat least, not south of Vancouver. ]
have never been in British Columbia
and don It want to speak of things ]
do not know.
" Before I went west this time. ]
had often said that the burst Of trans
continental railway building amazed me
ana e, a almost appalled, me. did not see
that the Western Pacific, st. Paul, Ca
madam Northern, Grand Trunk Pacific
Kansas City, Mexico & Orient, and al
the other more or less genuine projects
to reach the coast had any real iustif
cation. l knew that the Milwaukee haC
to build to save itself, and that Gould i
antagonlsm with his neighbors would
ultimately compel that road to go thru
but the rest seemed foolish to me. 81 +,
~ Many Still Blind.
IT knew that the Canadian Pacif,
had worked for twenty-five years Il
!, get its gross earnings up to $500 /:
mile. Only eight years ago I had see1
:, the Atchison, Union Pacific and North
: ern Pacific coming out Of rcceiverships
: and knew that only the Huntington
pride. saved the Southern Pacific from
the same fate. could not see, an,
, there are thousands Of others who can
not yet see, that this six or seven wear
! Of growth. justified anything like tn
= practical duplication of the Souther
Z Pacific, Northern Pacific and Canada,
!, Pacific by the Western Pacific, Milwalj
; kee and Grand Trunk Pacific! ce~
100, 49, Now. I see It. They are not build
ing Tor today nor tomorrow. They ar
getting ready for ten Years from nov
, present volume of tonnage out Of an
J, Einto Pacific coast ports will be NOR
y than double what it is today. unIes
tindeed, some worldwide catastronb
checks the wonderful tide of commere
can see that these big main, arterie
9 Of transcontinental traffic will be wo,
f derful e, earners of. money, if these hope
= Eastern Cities Distanced.
Z, "In the last ten years the populatio
It Of the coast cities has increased sc
o per cent. Ten years from now, no OF
N can say what will be the size of Sa
Francisco, Seattle or Tacoma. ] ha1
le no doubt in the world that Boston, :Ba
sr tlmore and even Philadelphia will /
&c behind the leaders of the Pacific Goa
Z. WACAlH IHat ClHe,. measured In the
lie economic Importance as factors in o,
national existence. -.
in GOULD, the Rockefellers, Harrime
y and Hill see this. Sir Wilfred Lauri
n, doubtless saw it, when he staked h
t. political future on the Grand Tru1
Pacific. They all know that there
p an element Of chance. about it. Pc
IN haps the new Pacific lines will 90 Fl
some such era as the period from Isl
It, to 1896, but if they do, they viii cor