Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1910-03-23
BISMARCK I0bE terminal
FOR BRANCH line TRAINS
CONFERENCE WITH PRESIDENT ELLIOTT HAS SATISFACTORY
RESULT BISMARCK TO GIVEN EQUAL CHANCE
WITH OTHER CITIES
TERRITORY.

A committee of the local CONNER
cial club, and business men of the
city, met AMI talked for an hour OF
so yesterday with President Howard
Elliott of the Northern Pacific rail
road and others Of his party, which
passed through the city on special
train following No. 3.
There were in the party besides
Mr.. Elliott, J. M. Hannaford, gener.
al traffic manager, Thomas Cooper
vice president, George T. Slade, gen.
eral manager, General Counsel
Bum, superintendent Burt of this
division of the railroad and D. E.
NEllard, development agent. The
members*of, the party are en- route
to the coast, and travelled in q spec
ial train of four cars which was
sidetracke1 at the station here dur.
ing the conference of local business
men with Mr.. Elliott.
The conference was an interest
ing one and gratifying to the local
committee, for the reason that Mr..
Elliott in the course of his talk
with the local committee stated that
it had been decided to place Bis
marck on equal terms with other
cities in the operation of the trains
ON the branches north and south of
Man Ian, and that its people and
business houses would be on equal
terms with any other business hous-
es in the operation of the trains.
Bismarck will be the terminal point
Of the trains, which will probably
start at the end of the lines in the
morning, run into Mandan and Bis
marck, give passengers an opportun-
ity to remain for several hours in
the two cities, and then return to
their homes in the afternoon.
This was the principal object of
the conference with Mr.. Elliott, who
was met at the station by the local
and taken to the CONNER
cial club rooms where the conference
was held.
The matters in which the business
men Of the city were interested were
presented by Captain I. P. Baker,
President Williams of the city COM
Judge Winchester, Presi-
dent Conklin of Commercial club.
H. S. Smith. Senator George A.
WEIGH, M. H. Jewell and J. w. Foley.
With respect to the traffic arrange
ments upon the branches north and
south of Mandan, it was urged that
the western part Of the state and It's
traffic should be equally open to bus
mess houses and commercial inter-
ests Of the two cities and that in JUS
tice and fairness to Bismarck, the
trains should be so operated that
each town have the same opportun-
ity to reach out for trade in the new
territory to be opened by these
branches. |
In replying to the members of the
Mr.. Elliott stated that it
had been decided that the trains !
wouli be operated into both cities,
and Bismarck, and that the |
service from the branches would ter
innate at Bismarck and begin at
Bismarck on the outward trip. He
laid that this would give all inter-
,sts an equal chance In the new
territory, AMI that the details OF
he service would be worked out by
he operating department. In ad.
lition to making this statement,
President Elliott confirmed the ru.
nors that have been afoot regarding
he proposed new lines south Of the
ity, westward from Edgeley. Mr..
Elliott stated that within two years
r so it was hoped to have supplied
mother transportation line across
he Missouri river, by the building
t a bridge somewhere near the1
Mouth of the Cannonball river, for
hitch soundings have been ma lie by
ngineers for some time past.
oundings have been made for a dis
ance of seventeen miles along the
Iver, and when the right point for