Arizona republican., 1916-05-30
JAMES !, HILL DISCOVERED THE
 BREADBASKET IF THE WORLD

it for the axle grease used on the loco- motives and freight cars; and if you can't stand that, I will carry your freight for, nothing"
 At the $S rate named, the American manufacturer was enabled to secure the Japanese contract.
 The same tactics were adopted in getting American wheat and flour into Japan, and China, where rice was the staple food.
 His faith in the Far East was re- warded as literally as that in the Northwest. It is estimated that the Pacific fleet now carries nearly $50,- OOO, 900 worth of products to the Orient every year.
 While MT. Hill built up for himself and his associates an immense fortune he also helped to create for the settlers along his lines a wealth of over five billion dollars in real property, which is represented by the value of the 400, 900 farms and their 65,O00,O 900 acres of improved land.
 Upon his retirement at 69, the streak of rust" he had bought thirty year before, had expanded to more than | 5000 miles and it was earning gross | profits of more than $66,000, 900 year and carrying l5,O00,O00 tons of freight annually. He still retained a hand in the Great Northern's policy as chair
 man of the board of directors, while his son Louis, who had worked up from the humblest position of his fathers 1 railroad became president.
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 no secret at all, according to MT. Hill
 and he had no new recipes to offer
 ''The man with the big opportunity to- ! day" he said, lis the man in the ranks" But the secret of failure he frequently declared to be extravaganza He regarded this as a national ten ldency, against which he strongly set himself, particularly as concerned the natural resources.
 During his active supervision of the IGreat Northern system, MT. Hill over saw almost every detail, to the wonder of all employees with whom he came 1T
 contact. A fugitive instance of his
 recognition in his own country is the
 story of a tourist who declares tha there are afloat in the Swedish sectior
 of the northwest upwards of 10,00t
 different stories in Swedish dialect witt
 %.Yem Helr' as the centerpiece. Patrons
 of his lines have liked and disliked hin in rapid alienation, for it was hi
 point to have his way, not only wher his road should run, but where hi
 patrons should settle. This was par of his economic policy. He carried ou i a singular regularity in the location O l branch lines, giving a minimum O
 short lines on which light trains wer ? unavoidable. The principal text of hi
 railway gospel was low grades, heav f ipOwer, large capacity cars, and bi train loads on his main lines, and h 5 began to preach this at a time whe most railway men.
 { In contact with the late E. H. Harri
 man, who outdid him in the extent n railway ownership, MT. Hill was nc - lonly the financial head, but the praC t tical head, of his great railway systen Il He was the chief promoter and pres S dent of the Northern Securities con e pany, organized with a purpose e bring the Northern Pacific and Gre; e Northern under one ownership, l. which such opposition developed tn;
 a suit was brought in the United Stat, l. circuit court, which decided that u e acquisition was an illegal combinatiC l. affirmed in March 1904 by the Unit, s States supreme court.