The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1875-05-27

must elapse before another move
is made in the construction work.
THIRD.
That the members of the Legisla-
ture committed grave error in not
taking this whole matter into careful
consideration and investigating it as
they had the power to do, and then
passing such bill or bills as would
have been appropriate to the situa-
ton.
That in lack of any better plan,
the last "Delano Bill" should have
been passed, so that an attempt, at
least, could have been made to open
at once route from all this and your
region Of country to the Northern Pa
| cifc Railroad connection at Brainerd;
for had not Nh. Delano and his
i friends been able to accomplish this
undertaking, the greater would have
been the disgrace attaching to the at-
tempt after Legislature had turned
over to them land grant taken from
defaulting company. A good road,
in regular operation, is what is want
ed, and the people do not care qr).o
builds 1t. 1t does not seem to the wri-
ter that when this property has been
taken from the possession of the rail-
road company and placed in the
hands Of a Receiver of the bondhold-
ers, or of the Holland Ring, and
when they have had since August
LIST, 1873, a period Of t,uenty-teoo months,
absolute possession and control, and no
movement has yet been made towards
building one foot OF these Extensions,
not even on that portion which would
pay, when that Receiver allows such
a large amount Of property in cross
ties and bridge material to be burned
up and 60 to waste without any care
or attention whatever,-I say it does
seem that they do not intend to build
another foot of the lines.
That at the prices at which the
bonds Of the Main Line, the Branch
Line, and the Extensions have been
selling, for the last year, the Holland
Ring will make more money to 60 on
and foreclose, divide up and reorgan-
Ire, than they can in any other way,
the only difficulty in the way of their
doing this being the opposition of
shareholders and some bondholders
who believe that the original plan Of
construction and operation should be
adhered to, and who do not propose
to have their interest in these railroad
lines wiped out if they can help it.
SIXTH AND FINALLY
my conclusion is that Mr.. Egan, Of
Duluth, fought any change in this
Extension Lines business both in the
interest of the Lake Superior and
Mississippi Railroad Company and of
his "1ron Range swamp land grant"
That the Hon. Chas. A Gilman, of
St. Cloud, gave any change in these
Extensions Lines the cold shoulder
because it might interfere with his
line from St. Cloud to Superior, and
that both Gilman and Egan believed
the lines would not be built by the
bondholders if left as they now are.
That MI. Knute Nelson and his
friends in the Sank Valley believed
that if any change was made it would
result in leaving the portion of the
road from Melrose to Glyndon un6n-
ished for many years, and in order to
accomplish their object they all struck
hands to carry into effect their
schemes, with what success I refer to
the result OF the last days and nights
session Of the Legislature.
Can the Extension Lines be finish
ed? If SO, when and by whom?
Between Sank Rapids and Brain
erd you have wasted eighteen years,
and up the Sank Valley six years.
Congressional extension of the land
grant rings in your ears every year.
On the twenty-second Of June, 1874,
the grant was extended until the third
! of March 1876, "oad no longer,"-
those were the words of the act. Were
| they ever used before? Will even
one of the conditions under which the
grant was last extended be complied
with, or will Congress be treated with
utter contempt by all who have had
anything to do with the land grant
for these Extensions?
Immigration moves on to the Main
Line, south Of you; it moves on to
the Northern Pacific line, north of
you. The men who, a few years
since, had high opinion and hopes of
your future prospects, are discouraged,
and some are leavieq you, and others
are preparing to close up and follow:
The Receiver is q man who has no
earthly interest in you, or your local
tiles, not even in the State of Mime
sota> He had power conferred on
him by the court which if he had
! properly exercised would have greatly
aided in settlement Of the present
difficulties and renewal of work
long ago. That Receiver is a resi-
dent Of Dubuque, in the State of Iowa,
and appears to care for nothing but
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