The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-10-11
500 line TO EXTEND TO SEATTLE
POSITIVE ANNOUNCEMENT OF
EXTENSION IS MADE IN NEW
YORK.

New York, Oct. &.-Announcement
n made in New York that the 500 line
will build to Seattle. Former Con.
gressman Jefferson M. Levy, acknowl.
ed ged head Of the Canadian Pacific
pool. said to q group Of newspaper
men:
"You can state definitely that the
Canadian Pacific management intends
to extend the 500 road to Seattle.
"This is the reply to James }. HITS
proposed extensions in Canada and
bears out Sir William Van Horne's re-
cent abatement in New York to the ef-
feet that for every mile Of railroad
Mr.. Hill builds in Canada the Cana
dian Pacific will build two In the
United States"
Fifth Line to Coast.
st. Paul. Oct Next spring
through arrangement between the
500 line, the Canadian Pacific and the
Spokane & International. the Twin
Cities will have the shortest route to
Spokane, by at least sixty miles and
by several hours time. An extension
Of this line to the coast would give
st. Paul fifth transcontinental and
4 route to Seattle that would make
other lines take notice. This Is I'M
doubtedly the plan Of the Canadian
Pacific directors, although extension
of one of the North Dakota lines be-
tween the Great Northern and the in
ternational border has been suggested
as a fine route with rich and unde-
veloped territory from which to build
up traffic.
Blow to Hill Lines.
Decision by the 500 line to have its
own rails from st. Paul to the coast,
thus adding another Twin City-Pacific
coast route, is expected to create de-
may in the Hill camp, it is said by
railroad men. Already the 500 has
given the Great Northern a body blow
in bisecting all of the feeders which
the Hill road had stretched northward
in North Dakota like a lot of tenta.
cles to scoop in the wheat and other
products for haul over it's lines to the
Minneapolis and st. Paul market. The
500 came along and showed a cross
country line between the Great North
ern and Canada, clear from Thief Riv-
err Falls to Kenmare, N. D., with line
planned to Duluth and an extension
farther westward.
The 500 crosses no less than eleven
of these feeders in it's new route
across North Dakota. It's Garrison
line, farther south, cuts off four OF
these feeders by making the same sta
tons or by crossing the lines.
Serve Fine Territory.
Continued to the coast, either the
Garrison or the Thief River Falls
lines would serve some of the finest
territory in the Northwest 1t would
pass through grazing, agricultural,
coal, mineral and timber lands and
would effectually shut out the Great
Northern by dividing the territory in
two which the Hill lines has left be-
tween the rails of their own systems
and the boundary. BY building an ex-
tension half way between the Cana
dian Pacifics Canadian route and the
Great Northern's American route the
500 would cut in half the distance
which the shippers as far north as the
boundary now have to make overland
to reach the Great Northern road. In
asmuch as the 500 would have an
even chance for business from the
country which will lie between its
own lines and the Great Northern and
1t will control absolutely the territory
lying northward to the Canadian Pa
cific route, the 500 and its parent
company, the Canadian Pacific, will
practically cinch the traffic from
wide belt Of country by the compile,
tiOn of the new limo