Show LOSES LUSES US 1 r J J HILL EMPIRE TO ATTACK BUILDER OF BLOOD bloot SUC POISONING was acknowledged as 23 fore mott most railroad builder and 2nd bisi ness man interested in agrical tupe art and education Edu callon st P paul lul minn james J 11 rail fall wad mad builder and greatest financier r ol 01 th abo eest est died here N may 29 from blood poisoning mr hill was as in his year in the passing of james i hill the greatest constructive genius of the northwest la is gone I 1 he le was vas aged as its a for anost railroad builder and business man he ile was ever greatly fate interested rested in agriculture art and education du Lation tho the loss which his city state and nation has sustained iii his hits death can car not be inea measured air mr hills wealth la is eti estimated mated be zo t tween and 25 FJ AR a mere roustabout lad of ot 18 hill toured from maine alaine to minnesota when in 1856 he from a mississippi river packet at st paul that place was a frontier tow town a of inhabitants at the sign 0 of f W J bass co agents for tle dubuque A st paul packet company ho ile found a job as stevedore and cleric clerk in the fifteen years I 1 nat at followed he be gathered no end of and I 1 a little capital with which ho he launch ed his own firm of hill griss co which promptly displayed its inetia tive by bringing the first load of coal into st paul two years later nith ith a flat bottomed steamer ho he established tle first regular communication with st paul and the manitoba ports of the fertile red river ither valley at about that time st paul was having its first experiment in railroad building lighty miles had been laid to st cloud miles to breckenridge both of which terminals were a k the southern end of the red tied aher valley and there were inere about miles of track which began nowhere and haded in that same inde indefinite flatte spot this venture ran up a debt ot of 33 and collapsed with its only assets being beings a few streaks of rust and a right of way ay after five years ot financial dicker ing luc including luding the sae sale of all his other interests which netted a fortune of hill and a syndi syndicate cote of three others sir donald A salib george stephen and norman IV kittson ob bained this property the st atul piul minnesota manitoba railway was formed to operate the road with hill as general manager hen in 1883 mr air hill ifill was elected president ho he un dercook the extension of the road from its dakota and minnesota homestead to the pacific ocean he was confronted by three great competitors to the south each of which had bad received big bonuses as government aid whereas the manitoba or the great northern as a it came to be blown dl cit I 1 not have hae R dollar of goern government ment sub sidy or an acre of grant to forward its progress from the boundary to the sea in this light hill plan was nas widely deemed lure i ure for but lie pres pressed sd it to conclusion b ludding and pou populating lating as he be built 3 mr nir hill till built up for himself and antl it a associates an immense for tune he also helped to create for the settlers along hia hi lines a of over five billion dollars gnp in real prop erty which is 1 represented by the value of the farms and their acres ot of improved improve ld land inrid upon his retirement at 69 the streak of rust ho lie had bought thirty years year G before had expanded to more than milea tilles and it wa was s earning gross of more than WO a i ear and carrying 13 15 tons of freight annually he ile still retained a hand in the great policy as ck chairman airman of the board of directors dir ectore while his son louis who had borkel up tip from the humblest huml lest position of 1 ail ild fathers nill road became president president pr eIdent |