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Inter-Mountain Republican | 1907-04-23 | Page 1 | Hill's New Road to Davide Trade

Type issue
Date 1907-04-23
Paper Inter-Mountain Republican
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
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Article Title Hill's New Road to Davide Trade
Type article
Date 1907-04-23
Paper Inter-Mountain Republican
Language eng
City Salt Lake City
County Salt Lake
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OCR Text I I I I I I I L HILLS HILL'S NEW NEVY ROAD TO DIVIDE TRADE Contracts Contract Let for St. St Paul Pall I Extension Ex- Ex Extension Ex Ex- tension to Pacific Coast Now New o- o Y York April 22 Contracts have been licci let cL by hy the lie St St. t. t Paul Railway Hallway Y company om rm ny for COl the extension of Its line to lo the Iho coast The contracts cannot be lie revoked lc und unil the thc railroad company compan must build bulI regardless of oC cost James J. J Hill Hili is hi planning an un extension to the coast from Dakota The new lIu line is isto Isto Isto to split spilt the lie territory th the Northern Pacific an and the thc Great North North- ern Cill and is h to be br owned jointly by hy them The rho Union Pacific is to b lt 1 leased to the lie Chicago o Northwestern oll and the Southern Pacific sold to tu another an an- another other company rh three reports were current In lii InWall Wall today tod The Ihie va WUN confirmed conI con Cull 1 firmed the second nd was generally hi- hi and the third was ws regarded asa as asa Os a a. stock tok Jobbing rumor Denial however how how- how I ever r could coull be lie bad hod of Jf none of or them The he St. St P Paul ul contract is lit In hi di di- di visions Owing O to lo the tile fo scarcity Of la labor la- la i-I i bor hor and antl the uncertainty of getting ma ma- the contractors have havo taken the work vork on Oil the basis of cost i U itUs Ius 7 i I per cent Named I llie suction section from from Crom Seattle c tu to i hits been let to tu Henry IU Henley of or Se 81 attic attle From Flom Butte to the Missouri river Ui Ih work voik 11 is done b by McI McIntosh Mc- Mc I Inlo Intosh h Bros of or Milwaukee l ii through sub Kub The rIle only tunnel on ill the th lint line is Js through the Bitter Biller Root Hoot mountains near Saltese I Ida a Nelson Bennett of Tacoma Is hi the tor for Cor or this In To addition h to tl these H contract con con- tract act lie St St. t. t Paul has haj bought OCL every share of lIC If stock of the lie 1 Montana rail rail- road running from 1 Lombard ald to tu Low Lew- j t iston u distance of or I Jj r 7 m mil iI s. s It hUM hua hUMi i j contracted wIth lh the Pacific Coast cornI com com- j I pany for or u e of the thc Columbia Puget Put PuI Puget Pu- Pu get t Sound Qun railway a distance of or 23 I miles from Maple l valley vaHey to Seattle thu giving an entrance to that city I j The rhe road which Mr Mi Hill Hili I IH is un under under- rI r I StUd to lo be l' l planning t to tn tho territory terri tern tOl tory between the tho Northern Pacific and unO the ho Great Not thorn them IN Is to tu U use l' l the Missouri Mis Mis- II river puss pas and run nil down the side of ur tho the Missouri river ricer to Da- Da ota kola This is the lie route picked out b bj the th Soo a a. few CC years agi It will develop de the the richest richert land in iii Montana a u. territory which the thc government has hat spent millions upon In irrigating II It would 1 relieve on the Great Northern and am Northern Pacific the thc theL same came as aa tho thu hit tracking double of ot of or thc these e roads would do I. I Jt f j
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