The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-05-22
St. Paul and WinOna Railroad.

The St. Paul and Pacific Railroad hav-
ing appealed to the citizens of the river
towns to raise sufficient sum for sur
vey and location of their branch road from
St. Paul to Winona, meetings have been
held in the most important places in fur
therance of this object, with very fair
prospects of success.
At a meeting in Wabashaw, on Satur-
day last, 81. F. MAsrERsoN, Esq, of this
city, Attorney for the St. Paul and Pacific
Road, stated the views of the company
as follows:
He stated that the company was just now
engaged in extending their line of road from
Minneapolis to st. Cloud, to which point they
hoped to have it in running order the coming
fall. In this enterprise nearly all their capital
is employed, and they do not feel able at present
to appropriate the 81, 900 necessary to survey
ask the citizens of those towns interested in the
construction of this branch, to raise by sub
scription or otherwise $1,000, to be repaid to
them in stock in the proposed road, whenever
such stock shall be issued. He expressed his
conviction that as soon as the road is located
and the fact demonstrated-as it will undoubt-
eddy be-that the road will not be an extraordi-
nary expensive work, that plenty of capitalists
will come forward and take hold of and
build it.
The Legislature at its last session passed an
act apprOpriating certain amount OF swamp
lands to aid in the construction of the proposed
branch. The first section of this bill provides
that for the purpose of aididg in the construc-
ton of a branch railroad from st. Paul along
the valley of the Mississippi to Winona, there
is granted ''all the swamp lands belonging to
the State, lying and being within seven miles
on each side of said road, as the same may be
located and constructed" in installments of
twenty miles. If seven sections OF land of the
proper character cannot be found on each side
of any portion of the road when the company
become entitled to it, they are authorized to
select it from any swamp lands belonging to
the State outside of the seven mile limits.
A committee of citizens of Wabashaw
was appointed to take up subscriptions and
the City Council voted to levy special
tax on the assessment roll of 1868, of the
sum of $500, three hundred of which is to
be appropriated to the reimbursement of
the subscribers to the railroad fund
At meeting held in Lake City the
the following resolutions offered By Judge
OrrMAN, were adopted unanimously
Resolced, That we hereby approve of the ac-
ton OF the Supervisors of the town of Lake
City, in the appropriation of the sum of three
hundred dollars to aid in the survey of the
Mississippi Valley Railroad. and recommend
that they approximate an additional one hundred
dollars.
ResoIvea, That the County Commissioners be
requested to appropriate the sum of one thou
sand dollars from the County to defray the eX-
penses of survey of said road.
We have already published the action
taken by the citizens of Hastings and Red
Wing. 1t is very important that the sum
required should be raised Immediately,
that the surveys andlocation may be COM
pleted this season. We hope to see the
road in process of construction before an
other summer.