ABSTRACT
Jim Hill sent a crew to Wayzata to tear down his railroad station and move it two miles to the east, then set it up again and call it Holdridge. The two roads became known as the "Hill Lines," and for them Jim Hill planned further expansion. The expansion Hill had in mind was a great mid-western property, the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy Railroad. One of the principals was Edward H. Harriman, whose earlier career has already been traced. His ability in getting control of the Union Pacific, then revitalizing the run-down road and merging it with the Southern Pacific made him an outstanding figure. Hill has been called the Commodore Vanderbilt of the West, The analogy is not sound. At eighteen he was on his own in the raw new settlement of Pig's Eye, later christened St. Paul, on the upper Mississippi.
