. H. H. Porter : a short autobiography written for his children and grandchildren . rn as to the wisdomof the proposed purchase, most of the directors thinking theyhad too much railroad already. We therefore retained itourselves and reorganized it into the Chicago, St. Paul andMinneapoHs Railway Company. A Httle later we purchasedthe Stillwater & Taylors Falls Railroad, running from Hudsonto St. Paul. We then acquired the St. Paul and Sioux CityRailroad and the Sioux City & St. Paul Railroad, these twoHues forming the railway line from St. Paul to Sioux City, andalso a Hne then in process of c
. H. H. Porter : a short autobiography written for his children and grandchildren . rn as to the wisdomof the proposed purchase, most of the directors thinking theyhad too much railroad already. We therefore retained itourselves and reorganized it into the Chicago, St. Paul andMinneapoHs Railway Company. A Httle later we purchasedthe Stillwater & Taylors Falls Railroad, running from Hudsonto St. Paul. We then acquired the St. Paul and Sioux CityRailroad and the Sioux City & St. Paul Railroad, these twoHues forming the railway line from St. Paul to Sioux City, andalso a Hne then in process of construction from the west bankof the Missouri River opposite Sioux City to Omaha and toNorfolk in Nebraska. We had already purchased the NorthWisconsin Railroad, running from Hudson northeast anddestined for Bayfield, having a valuable land grant. Of thisrailroad there was then about twenty miles crudely North Wisconsin Railroad we later extended to Bayfieldand Ashland in Wisconsin, and to Duluth, Minnesota. About 1880 we consolidated this whole system into the. H. H. Porter1901 A SHORT AUTOBIOGRAPHY 33 Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha Railway, of which Iwas elected the first president, having previously been presidentof the various lines forming it. In 1882 my associates and Isold our stock to the Chicago & North Western RailwayCompany and I retired from my connection with the Omahasystem, having accomplished my object and being very Omaha system, starting with the West Wisconsin Rail-road with only about one hundred and ninety miles of track,had become when I left it a railroad some thirteen hundredmiles in length. The value of the Chicago, St. Paul, Min-neapolis & Omaha stocks, per share, are now between two andthree times what it was when we sold, although it was a verysuccessful undertaking for us financially, but one that requiredvery earnest, hard, continuous, and courageous work. Webought all the railroads forming this system at a fortunatetim
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