The Bismarck Tribune Newspaper, March 5, 1927, Page 12

PAGE TWELVE eu Empire Builder’s | Dream Recalled By Proposed Merger) St, Paul, March 5--(4)-—Rails that cross and follow the trails over! Wateh h Lewis and Clark fought their may through a trackless wilderness | Thto the Pacific northwest more than| @ century ago are comprehended in the proposed merger of the Great Northern and Northern Pacific rail- ways. Through forests, and over mount traversed, Lewis and Clark _ pio-| Reered in the carly years of the nineteenth century to blaze a path which opened the great northwest. More than half a century aft them c: James Je: ing from a laborer’s job to empire builder, Jim Hill visioned the vast northwest, then an uninhabited | waste with miles of untilled prai- ties blooming with life and com- merce. He sent ribbons of steel| across the plains and over the Roc Mountains to the Pacific coast. of the railroads he fathered Great Northern and the Northern Pacific, which will be joined in a giant system. Finished in 1883 Advancing westward from St. Paul and castward from the coast, track layers, who often found them- selves explorers too, met to drive the last spike in the completed | Northern Pacific line at Gold Creek in Montana’s Hellgate Canyon on Sept. 8, 1883, and ten years later,| on Jan. 6, 1893, to finish the Great Northern in Washington. { The Lewis and Clark trail, which | followed the Missouri river into} Montana, is crossed by the North-| ern Pacific at Bismarck, N. D., and| Clark’s returning route road’s path for a consi tance. The Great Northern follow along streams ns never before the Lewis and Clark trail’ through Splendor and Quality | much of Montana and runs parallel, for a way, to the homeward course of Lewis, Should the union of the North-! erns be carried through the merger will control operated mileage ex-' ceeding 28,000, with a $ valuation and’ a capital investment of $650,000,000—for although the of that road’s stock is owned joint- ly by the two roads. Northern Pacific mileage is 6,682 7,002, subsidiary total to 15,550. The combined lines | have some 2,700 locomotives, passenger cars and 115,000 cars, and operate in Wiscon Minnesota, both Dakotas lowa, Montana, Idaho, Oregon, ton and the Canadian province Manitoba and British Columbia. | which we Taxes on Earning ae big Basis, Farmers’ Plan |e" | ture ev | daring the a Indianapolis h ith a thre majority in the | g senate and two-thirds in the ho the farm group has announced its intention to pass the measure over the state tax board’s objections and, if necessary, over the veto of Gov- ernor Ed Jackson. When the bill been ironed out by amendment, ill be pressed for final enactment with these mn: . 1. Designation of earning power instead of market value as the de termining factor in real estate as- sessment. 2. Limitation of tax collections to $2 on each $100 of taxable property and in no instance to more than 20| , r cent of the normal annual net! income produced by property de. nt for value upon its earnings. Right of appeal from sti beard decisions on assess Pater “All urban real estate depends on -income production for its value, asserts Representative Charles . M. Trowbridge, leader of the house! farm bloc. “All agricultural prop- erty should be on the same basis. It is now assessed for more than it would sell for.” | State ia board officials say that A wealthy taxing | units) id be crippled by the limitation! of tax collection to $2 a hundred, c 00,000,000 | Automobi Lof all the consolidation does not plan to em-| complete Willy ‘ brace the Chicago, Burlington and! will be on display at the Lahr Motorj Bismarck Quincy lines, more than 97 per cent | Sales Company’ | the ; interesting lines bringing the; as beautiful, tion, Washing- | pany of | chassi and Wi Kn displa cluding the | four door smart pet “6 | tion, Model new coach work, and the new W Knight “Great Six” shown today. rooms, spi Pre’! complet Sales ( Automobi Chatowsky woman THE HOME OF THE See cinuehide? ee COMPANY, _PIONEER AUTOMOBILE MERCHANTS. ;towsky wrote, proposing in his first jletter. He was accepted. 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D. % “The Pioneer Investment House of North Dakota” ‘phe London Seering Quartet , will provide the music for the weekly Sunday night concert to be broad- cast from the Gold Medal Station, Wcco, frees WEAF. New York, from 8:15 to 9:15. Sundi ve March 6. This will be the ‘first time the current’ series of these concerts that the m been presented solely by an instrumental group. The membets of the London Quai James Levey, first violin; Petre, second violin; H. mer, ‘viola, and .C. War- cellist. The quartet, Eneland as one of the best chamber music organizations of that country, Was organized in 1908 and has played together for 16 years. It has made tours in sagas) in Lon- ‘hey have » Sweden, and Denmatk, three tours of Spain, and. four, prior to this tour, in the United States and Canada. They have produced more than 100 new works, The program of the evening will be as follows: Quartet in D minor. Mozart. Andante Cantabile Tschaikowsky. Cartzonetta a Quartet in E fiat eat) rr, Op. 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TEACH BLIND TO DANCE New York.—Women’s clubs and social agencies have been asked to supply volunteer dancing tag i bey for blind men who have been ing dance steps at seccutional s cen ters here. Instructors say they have line in. is the‘sen- achieved in a stock » Bae ofithe 559 wa :