The Evening statesman. [volume] (Walla Walla, Wash.) 1903-1910, 1906-02-17
THEY WILL FIGHT HARTMAN
Hill and St. Paul Officials Will
Form Combine.
THEY ARE VERY CLOSE TOGETHER
WAR OF RAILROAD GIANTS FOR
SUPREMACY is NOW ON IN
EARNEST.

Harriman's alliance with the Cana
dian Pacific will be met by a COM
bination of Hill and st. Paul interests
to meet the attack that is being di-
rected on the Hill systems from both
north and south. The interests of the
Chicago, Milwaukee & ST. Paul are
Identical with those of the Hill lines
in meeting the Hartman attack.
There is already a strong bond of
and the Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul. Hill mas not placed any obstacles
in the way of the ST. Paurs coming
to the coast, and western officials of
his roads know from direct assurances
that Hill does not want to discourage
the ST. Paul extension
The control of the Pacific Coast COM
pany lies in the hands of the Hill
crowd in Wall Street and this COM
pany has already practically conclud-
ed a trackage agreement with the ST.
Paul. With that much of standing
the relationship between the st. Paul
and the Pacific Coast company must
be made very close.
St. Paul and Hill Friendly.
Were Hill in a humor to oppose the
st. Paul the deal with the Pacific
ocf hoy
reached a semi complete stage and
! there would have been obstacles in the
way of the ST. PauFs coming that
| would have been serious. But neither
Hills opposition nor anything else
| could have kept the Milwaukee out of
the northwest. The road was amply
able to come and to overcome all diff
ficulties in the way of building. A
friendly greeting was a matter of pol
! icy.
| The ST. Paul and the Hill lines have
common enemies in the Hartman sys-
tenn and the Canadian Pacific. That
the st. Paul proposes to be strong
enough in this territory to meet the
| invasion of the two new lines is shown
| by the fact that the road is preparing
as soon as the main line construction
is determined upon, to extend branches
that will tap every portion Of the
that the road will invade o. R. & N.
! territohy and this will certainly bring
on retaliation on the part of the Har-
| riman interests. The st. Paul will
probably not be local competitor of
the Canadian Pacific, but on trans
continental business their interests
clash repeatedly.
/ War Of Giants.
Alliances between Hill and the St
Paul crowd and between the Canadian
Pacific and Hartman will make the
fight to control the transcontinental
and trans-Pacific traffic a war of
giants. 1t will make the Pacific north
west the storm center of railroad
building and traffic contest that will
last for years.
; The Hartman line cannot be here
within a year, and the st. Paul will
be two or three years in reaching
the coast. 1t would take year for
the Canadian Pacific to reach Seattle.
The steps taken by the rival interests
now are merely the preliminary ma
neuvers of the railroad kings.
Hill will resent Canadian Pacific in
trusion stronger even than the coming
of the Hartman lines. For nearly
been attempting to block every move
by the Hill interests to enter Canadian
| territory. But Hill has triumphed
over it in every fight. He has built
feeders into territory that the Cana
| dian mas regarded as it's own exclusive
district and has beaten the Canadian
| into much of the new territory that
has been developed along the border.
In the west this is illustrated by the
construction of the Victoria, Vancouver
& Eastern.
Confidence Of Hill.
The supreme confidence of Hill in the
success of his own plans is shown by
! the tenacity with which the railroad
magnate is pushing through his in
vasion of British Columbia and eastern
| Canada. He apparently has no fear of
| fight with the Canadian. His con-
| struction of road down the north
| bank of the Columbia river shows Hills
disregard of any Hartman threat. He
will get into the Columbia river coun-
| try on as easy terms as the Union Pa
cific and will, in addition, open up a
country that Hartman has looked at
| with Jealous longing.
Throughout the entire length Of the
lines the Hill systems are protecting
| themselves by pushing forward