The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1876-03-09
LE0LsLATURE ADJOURNED

The House bill permitting the Sioux
City and st. Paul Railroad to build
branch lines, was indefinitely post
poned. The Senate bill to extend the
time for completion Of the Southern
Minnesota Railroad was lost i'll the
House. The extraordinary appropri-
alton, above tile ordinary expenses of
the Government, amounted to $l61 900.
Of this $4,000 is to reimburse the grass
hopper counties for b0nnties, and 81, 600.
for seed wheat to grassl,opper districts.
The number of bills passed was 404.
THE D0NUS 9 UEs770N Il GAIN.
Elsewhere we publish another letter
from still another citizen of Hersey Oh
the bonus question. The opponents of
the measure will certainly not charge
us with being unfair in this matter. If
the bonus question cannot bear open
discussion, it had better fail.
The first point our correspondent en-
deavors to make is against our claim
that railroad competition reduces
freiglts. Upon this point, we turn
him over to the facts. So much the
worse for the facts, he may say, if they
do not sustain him, but we leave him
and the facts to fight it out. We SIM
ply knou the fact that this is univer-
sally the case, and that now wheat is
carried from Sioux City to St. Paul for
less than it is carried from Worthing-
ton to st. Paul, yet Sioux City is 81
miles further. The Southern Mime
sofa will reduce the rates OH wheat ut
least to Is cents buslle,.
The next point our correspondent
makes is that this is a Wortlington
measure. We claim that it is county
measure. Worthington is more largely
interested than any other village OF
town, just because it has more popula-
ton and more property. Worthington
will pay from one-thlrl to one-half OF
all the tax laid by this bonus, and
nearly one-third more will be paid by
nonresident landowners. These are
points we wish to insist upon. About
two-thirtls of the tax will be paid b,
Wortllington an lnon-"esidents and but
ene-third by all the rest Of the county
Where should the road go if not tx
WorthingtonY Isnot tha wholc count,
most benefited by having the road g
to \ central point? Suppose the roa>
should go along the northern route t,
Heron Lake and Graham Lakes? Woult
this be as convenient and us beneficial
to the whole county? Three-fourtls o
the county will say most decidedly tina
if the road is to come to this county a
NIL it should come to Worthington. l
the matter were left to vote as to wher
the road should go, leaving out til
question of bonus, we believe that ever
tier Of townships except the northern
tier would vote to Il man for Wortliinq
ton. This matter of building up
center is like dropping q stone into
lake. The wave of influence and in
creased value begins at the center an
extends TO-; the circumference. Ever
rise in property ct the center is 4 ston
dropped into the lake OF value, and til
waves extend to the limit of the count y
This goes OH from year. to year, All
there cannot be al increase ut the cen
ter without the whole county feelin
the, effect. ...
AS to the road stopping ut Worthing
ton permanently, nothing can be NOR
absurd. 1t is Just as sure to go O.
westward from here as the sun is sur
to set in the west. But if Worthingto
were sucl, y point that railroads woul
come in from different directions an
stop here, the whole county on. lit t
rejoice i'll it, for then we would be
railroad center in the sense that India,
apolis is. We look for no such gree,
things, but it we get the Southern Mir
nesota, we are just as sure to be :.n in
portant inland city, as are Rochester
or Mankato, or any Of that class c
cities.