New Britain herald., 1916-05-29
J. J. HILL, PIONEE RAILROAD MAN !
 NORTHWEST, l
Was Greatest Factor in 0 Up WealthieSt Grain Re
 of United States
STARTED LIFE ON FARM
 AS BOY OF AMH

Said Main Road to Success w ity to Open the Door When
 tunity Ixnocked-Was Most
 Known Figure Tn That Sed the Country-Was Uncd
 Twelve Hours.
 St. Paul, Minn., May 29.-Jl Hill, railroad builder, capital most widely known figure
 northwest, died at his Sunni nue residence at 9:30 o'clod morning as the result of an il due to bowel trouble.
 MT. Hill was unconscious fol twelve hours before he died Herman M. Biggs of New IT pr. Stanley Seager of Rc ! Minn., together with member immediate Hill family, were bedside at the end.
 MT. Hills personal secretar. Brown, made the announce his employers demise to waitiI paper correspondents at the l 1 dence. His statement was n bally, with the intimation written bulletin might be issu Questioned regarding data sequies, MT. Brown said thai engagements had been discus "Discovers" Great North
 James J. Hill discovert breadbasket of the world" in Northwest; he led in it's devs from a wilderness into what n prises the wealthy states dot 100000 farms; and he blaze' for transportation which eventually from Buffalo to Al a total mileage of rail and si facilities that would nearly g earth.
 That but roughly spans the his achievement.
 Near Guelph, in Ontario| James Jerome Hill was born| the son of an Irish -Canadial who died when the boy was stands tree stump labeled: tree chopped by James J. Ii It marked the lads resol go to the United States. He prompted by an odd incident ing to the story that is told, d traveller had stopped at the \ to take dinner, and left his the gate. Young Hill saw thJ was tired and he carried it < water. The stranger was pied the lads thoughtfulness, andl drove off tossed him a newspaA the United States, and cal i gravely: "Go there, young md country needs youngsters K spirit"
 Hill read the paper card contained glowing accounts cA tunities in the States. He reS 1 investigate for himself. It next morning that he chopped i tree.
 As mere roustabout lad toured from Maine to NM When, in 1856, he disembarlA a Mississippi river packet at | that place was a frontier 5,G00 inhabitants. At the six J. Bass &S Co.,, agents for the & St. Paul Packet company, k a job as both steved0re and
 In the fifteen years that he seized every opportunity the whole problem of river A tation. He gathered no enk perience and little capiN which he launched his ownH Hill, Griss S Co, which promH played it's initiative by brin first load Of coal that had ek seen iii that section into St. IN years later, with a flat steamer he established the M ular communication with St. the Manitoba ports of the 1e # River Valley.
 At about that time St. E having it's first experiment in # buiIding. Eighty miles hs laid to St. Cloud, 316 rH8 Breckenridge, both of whic na!g were at the southern er Red River Valley, and the about 100 miles of track Wv gan nowhere and ended in tM indefinite spot" This ventur a debt of S33,000,000 and N with it's only assets being & streaks of rust and a right
 Buys Defunct Railroa8 8
 Hill had had sufficient st the region to be served wit l# stunning desire to purchase E funct property. After five financial dickering, including M of all his other interests netted a fortune of $100,000 @ a syndicate of three otf 8 Donald A. Smith, George
 and Norman W. Kittson,- the object of this desire.
 The St. Paul, Minnesota ar toba railway was formed to M 4he nroperty, with Hill as @ manager. When in 1883 MT. 8 elected president he undert NS
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