The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-04-15
VARIOUS LINES ENTERING THE
NORTHWEST ARE ENGAGED
IN A BATTLE ROYAL.
VAN TAGES BEING SOUGHT
Hill Surveyors and Small Army Of
Milwaukee Forces in Hard Fioht n
Hartman Within Striking Distance
and May Enter the Game.

Seattle, April 1.-THE Times today
says:
Within the last 80 days the clash
of railroad interests in the Pacific
Northwest has been started anew in
score or more of places in a gem
uine competitive railroad war, which
not even the astute Mr.. Hartman, the
uncommunicatiVe Mr.. Earlng or the
diplomatic Mn Hin can hide disguise
or conceal The fight is not three
cornered but four squared with the
Hin interests, the Great Northern. the
Northern Pacific and the Spokane,
Portland x Seattle involved in a bitter
controversy in condemnation suits and
otherwise with the North Coast Rail-
way company, the oregon & Wash
ington CHarriman) and the Canadian
Pacific railway.
Here are a few points on the map
of the Pacific northwest where the
controversy is either at the present
moment being fought out in the courts
or where rival railroad engineering
parties are struggling for vantage
points and strategic locations in dis
puted country" says the article.
In the Clearwater country east of
Lewiston, Idaho, Northern Pacific and
Hartman surveyors are botli working
over the old ground covered by the
one-time projected Missoula cut off
which was abandoned years ago when
Charles S. Melen. president of the
Northern Pacific entered into the
famous gentlemens agreement with
Hartman jointly to build and operate
the Riparia- Lewiston line and quit
quarreling over the rich Grangeville
country to the east
A Hard Fight.
In the Flathead country, 100 miles
square in Montana, where Hill sur
veyors are up against a hard fight
with small army OF Milwaukee en-
gineers in opening up a vast virgin
region of immense resources probably
larger in area than any single unde-
Veloped tract in the northwest.
Hartman is within striking dis
tance of this rich country and can
quickly protect his interests there.
I'm Spokane the bitterest fight of
all is in progress in condemnation
suits in the federal courts. The North
Hartman or a Canadian Pacific cor
poratiOn has attacked Hill in his
stronghold, seeking to acquire by con-
demnation IT acres of land in the
heart of the city formerly owned by
the Great Northern, but privately CON
veyed last November by Hill officials
acting under orders, to the Spokane.
Portland e Seattle road.
"On both sides of Salmon bay in Sc
attic, where the oregon & Washington
IHarriman) has begun condemnation
suits to obtain railroad right of way
over land owned by the Great North =
ern and Northern Pacific, and where
Hill has retaliated by starting con-
demnation suits on his own account to
protect his interests.
I'm Vancouver, B. c., where Hill
projects immense deep sea terminals
to handle grain and Oriental exports
and where the Canadian Pacific as
announced yesterday, is preparing to
duplicat HilPs projected $1,000000 ter
minal by building costly grain elevat-
ors, etc.
In these various points where the
fight is waged, small army of law
yers-costly ones-and surveyors,
right of way men and secret agents
are employed. Expense cuts but lit
tie figure in most instances, as is ad-
mitted by the men who are on the
skirmish line themselves"