Salt Lake Tribune | 1901-04-11 | Page 5 | Burlington-Northern Pacific Deal

1 BurlingtonNorthern Pacific t S New York April 1OThc Times will S say tomorrow After the meeting of l the board of directors of the Northern S S Pacific railway yesterday Wednesday afternoon James J Hill president of the Great Northern railway who It was expected would leave the city yesterday yes-terday was engaged until late In the afternoon In conference with George J Baker president of the First National Na-tional bunk Who Is representing the Northern Pacific railway iiI the negotiations C nego-tiations with the Burlington stockholders stockhold-ers for the purchase of that property It was expected yesterday that an announcement S an-nouncement of the closing of the deal would be made but nothing was made public The usual dividend was declared II de-clared at the meeting