Source: The Mining Journal
Marquette, Mi.
December 11, 1886

Our Railway Relations

They are Going to be ar-Reaching when
Roads Now in Contemplation are Built

A Portland, Me., dispatch to the Boston Herald states at a meet-
ing of the Board of Trade of that city, held Friday of last week,
the railroad interests of the city were considered. The principal
speaker was Theodore C. Woodbury, who had just returned from the
Northwest, and who called the attention of the managers to the im-
mense growth end resources of that section of the country center-
ing at Duluth, Nn., and also spoke particularly of the growing rail-
road system and the combinations whicn are being formed to give Du-
luth and the whole northwestern territory an eastern outlet witnout
going through Chicago. He called the especial attention of the man-
agers to The DSS&A, now being built, which will connect Duluth in
almost an airline wita the CPR and Grant Trunk, thus connecting
Portland, Ore., with Portland, Me., in a great transcontinental
route from ocean to ocean. The DSS&A will probably be completed by
July 1, 1887, and will stretch from Duluth to Sault Ste. Marie,

405 miles. This road, when completed and conneclions made with the
Canadian roads, will give the NP and all other roads centering at
Duluth a shorter and more direct line to Montreal and Portland than
they now have by the scuth end of Lake Michigan and Chicago which is
565 miles southeast of Duluth. Especial attention was called to the
fact of what an immense benefit this would be to Portland if our cit-
izens would wake up to the fact that this is the natural seaport of
this great northwestern country. "Tais is the opportunity," he

said, "that the citizens of Portland have been patiently waiting for
fifty years. If anyone will take the map and trace this road, he
must reavize that Portland is the natural outlet, almost by an air-
line, for ten of the largest and richest territories of this contin-
ent. This is the reason why we should look so carefully after our
interests in the Portland & Ogdensburg railroad. Wow, for the first
time in its history, it commands 6 position which its projecters fore—
saw and that so many of us could not see." Mr. Woodbury then made
the motion that the secretary of the board cf trade place himself in
correspondence with the secretaries of the chambers of comnerce of
Duluth and Minneapolis, with a view to seeing what arrangements could
be made toward bringing these citics into closer business alliance
with Portland, and looking toward an end Lhat can maxe Portland the
Partial outlet of a portion o= the northwest, which naturally belongs
to her.

Messers. Nelaughlin, George Walker, J. S. Winslow, Charles S.
Forbes, E. Corey and Rich followed in remarks concurring in the full
force of Mr. Woodbury's suggestions.

 

 

 

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