The Northern Railroad was built on the private funds. The railroad was the creation railroad entrepreneur James J. Hill in the 19th-century. The company St. Paul and Pacific Railroad changed its name in Great Northern Railroad Company under James J. Hill. The company was in bankrupt before Hill and others invested in it. They turned the company into profit and success by expanding it in Northwest.
during the era of prohibition the mafia was the citizens only hope of bringing back illegal booze, the mafia hijacked booze, whiskey, and alcohol trucks to sell