The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-01-12
Railroads
CANADIAN PACIFIC
FORCED TO FIGHT
MUST BUILD MAIN LINE FROM
EDMONTON TO WINNIPEG. +
Canadian Pacific Has Had Edmonton
on Branch Line for Long Time, but
Now Grand Trunk Is Going to Put
Edmonton on Main Line and Cana
dian Pacific Must Get Busy. ..<
Special to- The Journal.

i
= New York, Jan. 12.-If the Hill lines
are having trouble in keeping thel: ex,
elusive control over the traffic of Puget
sound, 1t is certain that their troubles
are as nothing, to what is aWaltlng the
Canadian Pacific. Not only has the
big Canadian to hold its own all along
the border against the efforts OF ). J.:
Hill and his friends, but it has at home
one of the most dangerous antagonists
in the shape of the heavily subsidized
Crank Trunk Pacific. The latest IS
an announcement from Mr.. Whyte that
forced to build a new main Line from
Winnipeg to Edmonton, to meet the
new Grand Trunk line. Il ... :
This is an important development.
Edmonton is more than 800 miles west
of Winnipeg. The Canadian Pacific has
between Winnipeg and Edmonton, and
will have to build about 800 miles OF
new road across the prairies to connect
these lines into q. new main line. Be
tween Edmonton and Winnipeg there
is going, some day, to. be very heavy
traffic, just as there Is now between
Chicago and Denver.
That is the gist of the situation. The
Canadian Pacific has had Edmonton on
q branch for long time, and has made
good business out of the traffic to and
from the east by a roundabout route.
Now the Grand Trunk is cutting in to
put Edmonton on the main line,. and
would undoubtedly get all the business.
Therefore the Canadian Pacific must
come in ahead of it and put Edmonton
on new main line of it's own. In all
proba bility, the net result will be the
practical doubling of the main line from
Winnipeg to Kicking Horse pass.
Every point in the northwest that
is worth covering is invaded by the
Grand Trunk Pacific. The Canadian Pa
cifc can do nothing. The government
will approve, anything the Grand Trunk
does, because the Grand Trunk is its
own line, while the Canadian Pacific
was created and built by the Macdon-
aid government, and did everything IN
its power to defeat the present liberal
government ever since the Canadian Pa
cifc began its history.
Watching Hartman.
"In reply to the question, "How
many new arrivals do you expect IN
Seattle or Tacoma within the next four
years?' a prominent director Of the
Northern Pacific says;
eve expect two, the st. Paul and
the Hartman lines: We have found no
or the, North Western people are either
building or surveying lines into the
north coast cities Without knowing
about it for certain, we have concluded
that the Hartman interests are behind
the North Coast railroad, and intend a
sonable time. -
...,. Comment on the new lines is short
a. here in the east. Few people seem to
be interested in them. It is too far
away to occasion much guessing, and
those who do guess are inclined to put
everything new down to the credit of
i. II. Hartman. In Rock Island and
i, Gould offices the belief is that the
Hartman interests have single prof.
ect of some sort that is bona tide and
that has as it's object the entrance to
Seattle, and that they are setting up
projects merely in order to forestau
Meantime the Hill engineers are quite
as busy as are the Hartman or st
Paul engineers. Hill took Darling from
to work on the gigantic task of build
ing two separate and distinct line
from the eastern border of Washing
= ton to the coast, one thru the Columbl;
valley and the other thru the Yaklm
valley. The first is to be- joint lin
cifc and the Great Northern, while tn
other is to be merely a better addition
of the present Northern Pacific lint
bending to the west to cross the rang
thru some pass south Of Rainier an
reaching Tacoma by line running
due east and west. This work is t
be done by separate company organ
lied under Washington laws.
'. Both these lines are tremendously ex
pensive. It will cost over $4,000
mile to build each of them, and the.
will have to have real trunk-line reve
nues, to make them pay. There ar
many who think it can It be done. Eve
into New York, there is only one sys
.- tenn that really needs two ines-th
Pennsylvania.