Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1906-02-11
NEW HILL TRAIN On SUNDAY
Burlington Will 1naugursts Additional
Passenger 10 Puget Sound COuntry.
TAPS NEW TERRITORY FOR OMAHA
brings This City with It's Growing
Commercial Interests Into Touch
with Developing Country
of the Northwest.

The Burlington's new train to the north
west, which will give Omaha 1900 miles
of additional daily train service, will be
inaugurated Sunday. l.. II. Stebbins, chief
clerk of the baggage department OF the
Burlington with headquarters at Chicago.
is In tho city to arrange for the baggage
equipment and also for the mall service
which this new train will care for. In
speaking of the new train General Passen-
ger Agent wakeley said:
"our additional train to Puget Sound
Is intended to increase Omaha's inn
portance as gateway from the
east and to doubly join her interests with
that rich northwest section, a zone increas-
ing In population and wealth faster than
any area of equal extent in the world.
but few years ago this line ended
In the sand hills of Nebraska, then later
reached to the Black Hills, putting that
PROSPEROUS community in touch with
omaha's markets, pushing on from Edge-
mont. the permanent cattle ranges were
crossed which meant additional business
for Omaha packing industries. AS the
line advanced toward the Northern Pa
cific territory those who studied the rail-
road man soon discovered that by COM
pletion of this line into Billings, Omaha
had not only gained stretch of new terri
tory 900 miles long this side OF Billings,
Int that her complete commercial organism
had been put in close touch with the older
country along the Northern Pacific
through to the Puget Sound.
Thousands Go West.
"s,nce the policy was inaugurated few
wears ago-that Of extraordinary low rates
to assist colonists to find homes in the
northwest thousands have located there,
and thousands more of producers and con-
sumers will take up the march into that
country this spring. but it's big country.
The new lands to be reclaimed, opened
and irrigated in the next few years VIII
make homes for as many more to satisty
the legitimate land hunger now prevailing
among our people. Large ranges In north
west Nebraska are being divided into farms
with quick sales. The North Platte valley
will soon add 100000 acres of abu"dantly
irrigated lands, with their high class pro-
ducts and the wealth of the community
that goes with this to Omaha trade.
1.-THE country around Sheridan, with its
coal and irrigation, is increasing in popula-
ton. while the ranges beyond mean
permanent supply for the packing indus
tries. Beyond is the Big Horn country
which will furnish one of the surprises In
the history of territory development. With
government and private enterprise 100000
acres of that land will be irrigated in the
immediate future. The soil is rich, the
sun and climate favorable, and some day
that country will be a vast garden OF
sugar beets. The Burlington will have its
line built to Worland near the Wind River
reservation. which will be opened for set
Element this summer If 100000 acres of ir-
rigated land were thrown upon the market
tomorrow. all ready for the pillow at s35 an
acre, 1t would be sold within week and
all be producing within the year. This
shows the value to a trade center of
community built up in an irrigated region"
Omaha, the Under Dog.
The announcement by the Northwestern
and Illinois Central of a rate on coarse
grains from Minneapolis to the Gulf ports
the same rate is made from Omaha to
the Gulf. has stirred some members of the
Omaha Grain exchange to a realization OF
the fact that it is not getting its just de-
serts on the grain question. The Illinois
Central has practically through line from
Minneapolis to the Gulf by connection with
the Minneapolis & st. Louis railroad al
though the present rate is made via Dixon,
Ill, with the Northwestern.
The southern roads are permitted to in
wade the territory OF the seaboard lines
without complaint from the lines, but when
the seaboard lines come to Omaha with a
low rate the southern lines will not stand
for It,
A. H. Merchant, secretary of the Grain
exchange. said: "It is time Omaha grain
men and jobbers were going after the rail-
roads on the rates which are made from
many points in Nebraska, which are In
favor of Kansas City as against Omaha
The rate on corn from Grand Island to
Kansas City, a distance of 313 miles, rs Is
cents, while the rate to Omaha from Grand
Island, a distance of but 147 miles, is but
i cent lower. This is but one point, but It
illustrates the advantage Kansas City has
Many OF the rates in southern Nebraska
which favor Kapsas City and ST. Joseph
are brought about by the Grand Island
road, which does not come to Omaha. l
understand this road is now owned by Mr.
Hartman and will be operated by the
Union Pacific in the spring. and this may
bring about a readjustment Of the rates to
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