Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-02-03
CUSSED and DISCUSSED
EX-SENATOR HALE HAS "a WORD
TO OFFER CONCERNING j.. j.
HILLS PART
IN THE DEVELOPMENT OF THE
5 NORTHWEST AND THE STATE
z : NORTH DAKOTA


II To the Editor: The article in your
paper of last Saturday on Mr.. Hill and
the Great Northern railway calls to
mind a statement made by Judge
Cowan in introducing Mr. Hill to a
Chatauqua audience, that he was the
most cussed and discussed man in
the Northwest
81 Just now it appears that he is being
cussed. When we cannot blame any.
one else for our troubles we make it
rule to unload on Mr.. Fill.
/. MY coal bin is nearly empty, but 1
have lived in North Dakota twenty
eight years, and like others, have
got into the habit of thinking that the
severe winters were a thing of the
past.
In these days, when the square
DEAF is supposed to be our motto,
would it not be just to give the Grand
Old Man who has done so much to
develop North Dakota little Of it?
My recollection runs back to the
two streaks of rust running from
Fargo to Bismarck, when all outside
of the valley was wilderness and was.
just recovering from a black eye given:
it by fool army officer whose name
was Hazen. have seen it develop
into one of the greatest states of the
union, where the poor have become
rich, where men and women have had
a better recompense for their toll than
anywhere else, and believe that no
man, or dozen, have contributed
more to make this country what it is
than that great figure sitting in the
big red building in st. Paul listening
to the click of the telegraph, telling
of the conditions in every city, village
and hamlet to which his great railway
runs, pushing his great army of able
and faithful men, from his son, the
yice-president, down to the snow show
elers, to the utmost capacity of human
endurance, to relieve the possibility
Iof distress.
Is it not a greater work than living
in palatial residence in New York
out of touch with everything Of value
to the people? a.
It may be that it was an enlightened
,selfishness on the part of Mr. Hill to
have built the Great Northern railway
it matters not
We have all reaped where he has
sown. A map of North Dakota will
show you the picture of the develop
ment of this state. Look at the many
branches running out from the main
line while he has not forgotten the
trans influential traffic he has not
forgotten us.
Look at the map of any other CON
tinental system and you will see the
difference
BY the way, these branches have
had better train service in the
strenuous times of the past two
months than has had the great 500
line; but you see very little mention
of the fact that the 500 has been
absolutely abandoned in North Dakota
for the last month.
It is an old saying that everybody
can raise other peoples children and
drive other peoples horses and we
/ might add railroads.,
Judged by the statements in refer
'ence to the Farmers railway, the
writer Of this article can be ciassed
4 with Mr.. Hazen. 9i3s :s3s5 h
The Farmers railway has never
paid a dividend.
The Farmers railway could never
have been built and could not now be
operated but for the kindness OF Mr.,
Hill, and you will find that the stock.
holders of that road appreciate Mr..
4 HIPS kindness and are more interest
Led in seeing trains run over the road
than they are in receiving dividends.
But a week ago he furnished two
engines to take four cars Of coal up
that line and swept out the coal chutes
in his yards to coal them. ss
Contrary to all the rules Of the game
as railroad men know them, and
Iagainst the advice Of his lieutenants
Mr.. Hill aided these farmers to build
the first twenty-four miles Of road
although his original promise was fol
Il but fifteen miles Of rails. and he has
/ aided in the extension to the boundary
line, and I have no doubt he is delight
ed BIZ the way 1T is run by Farmer
Kelly.
OF the fact that MI. ELL has beer
ever ready TO help in the development