Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1878-01-24
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YANKTON DAKOTA.
Thursday Evening, January e., 1873
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and Bcloitit~s Longing to
Hear the snort OF the Iron Horse.
Sioux City Journal, 2sd.
WIN. NJ. Cuppett O. 8. Clifford. N. c.
Nash, John Falde, and j. S. Benedict. Of
Canton, and A. J.. Warren, +. J. Murray
and Fred Barrows Of Beloit, waited upon
President Wicker yesterday, to consult with
him in regard to an extension Of the Sioux
City and Pembina railroad to Beloit and
Canton coming season.
The Sioux City and Pembina railroad is
at present operated by the Dakota Southern
to Portlandv ale, = point 80 miles distant
from Sioux City. The line is graded from
P~ortlandville to Calliope, IA miles. From
Calliope to Beloit is 20 miles, and to Can
ton is 2 miles further, and it is these last 20
miles or such a matter that the delegation is
striving to arrange, Mr.. Wicker having
about concluded to build from Portlandville
to Calliope anyway the coming season. The
delegation from Canton and Beloit had q
long and thorough talk with Mr.. Wicker,
the result of which was hat he made the
proposition that he would iron and operate
the road ii the citizens would secure the
right of way, and grade, bridge and tie it,
they to collect and appropriate whatever
they could in the way Of public or private
aid along the line.
The cost of the work asked of the citizens
is estimated at from $4,000 to $4,000, or
from $4,000 to $4,000 per mile, but it can
not vet be guessed what amount of this ex-
pense can be secured along the route. The
members Of the delegation feel hardly able
to undertake a task so large as that required
by Mr.. Wicker, but they feel that those
they represent are willing to do everything
in their power, and there is now an oppor.
tunity for Sioux City to do something to sc.
cure the extension Of a line which offers
her as much or more than anything on
which she has ever expended her money.
The importance Of the line is manifest when
it is considered that it secures irrevocably
for us a part of our tributary territory which
We are losing BY its being tapped by the
now to Sioux Falls. If Sioux City sits
calmly down and allows the trade of the
Sioux yallev to be turned away from her ii
is gone forever, and the only thing she can
do to prevent this is to give whatever assist.
ance she can to those who are now striving
for an extension of the Pembina road fal
enough up the valley TO hold that which be
longs to her. The people of the valley ex
press their preference for Sioux City, theil
business associations with our merchant
having been always most satisfactory bu
they cannot continue their relations with
market when others offer superior means o
communication. Those who are engineer
ing the project will in due time get matter'
in shape, when they will know just wha
they can do, and what they will be com
| PEELED to ask Of Sioux City, and when tn
time comes for this community to act, "
are satisfied that the utmost will be don,
for the time has never yet been that Siou
. City has sat down quietly and allowed he
fortunes to slip from her, without maxim
> something Of an effort to retain them.