The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1911-03-28
GRAND TRUNK MAY
ENTER BEL RAMI
Rumors to This Effect Are Heard
Among Railroad Circles and
From Newspapers.
500 HAS DULUTH SHORT LINZ

500 HAS DULUTH SHORT LINE
City Publications Also Tell of Cana
dian Pacific Contemplating To-
roato-Winnipeg Train.
Articles which have appeared in
the twin city and other papers of late
relative to the plans, of the railroads
of the west and northwest wherein
much building of lines through Min.
nesota from north of the Canadian
boundary have revived talk which.
was rife late last fall connecting the
Grand Trunk Pacific and the Canad-
ian Pacific. and the 500 with strife
for the control Of patronage in north
central Minnesota.
The 500, by the construction of it's
new line from Plummer to Moose
Lake and passing through Bemidji,,
secured a line from Winnipeg to Du-
luth much shorter than that of any
other system; and incidently tapped
a country rich is agricultural and
dairying possibilities; also Offering a
splendid line on which to haul grain
from the fields of northwestern Min
nesota and North Dakota to the twin
ports.
It is admitted that the construc-
ton of the Moose Lake-PMmmer line
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of the 500 has not been received with
hearty cordially by other competing
lines; and there have for some
months past been rumors of the con-
struction of line of railway reach
ing directly south from a point on
the Grand Trunk Pacific, in Mani
toba, and extending southwark SO as
to tap practically the same country
for which the new line of the 500
is contemplated as a feeder; and
rumor has it that this new Grand
Trunk Pacific line was intended to
form chain in a system that con-
templated building on southwark to
connections with leased lines in south
ern Minnesota that would give an al
most air line to Chicago latest
proposition Ringing on the passage
by congress of the Canadian recipro-
city law. ~
"A more general statement of the
Grand Trunk Pacific scheme credited
that system with being back of a
survey Of line which commenced
at Rennie, Manitoba, on the main
line of the Grand Trunk Pacific, and
extending southwark to sprague, on
the Canadian Northern, on south to
west of Roseau, through Beltrami
county west of Red Lake and to the
northern boundary of Clearwater
county. The line in Clearwater
county is said to have been surveyed
southwark to Sprague, on the Cana
dian Northern, on south to the west
of Roseau, through Beltrami county
west of Red lake and to the north
ern boundary of Clearwater county.
The line in Clearwater county is said
to have been surveyed southwark
from the northern boundary of the
county and crossing the new 500
line near Leonard, and on south, one
proposed survey crossing the Grand
Forks-Duluth line of the G.. N. rail-
way at Ebro and another crossing
the G. N. at Bagley, the latter being
the survey most acceptable to those
interested in the alleged survey. The
same authority extends the survey
southwark, west of the Itasca state
park and on generally south and
eastward to New Ulm, there to con-
meet with lines, which would prob
ably be leased, to Chicago; the whole
giving Chicago Winnipeg line
claimed to be shorter than any now
that could be devised over lines al
ready constructed.
Late newspaper talk credits the
Canadian Pacific with contemplate
! ing putting on a through Toronto to
Winnipeg train, by way of Chicago
and the twin cities, by using the
Wabash from Toronto to Chicago and