Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1879-10-09
Little Falls & Dakota Railroad.


urally that whatever renders natures products
OF increased value is public blessing. This
ls what the Little Falls b Dakota railroad
will do, and to an extent which will build the
road and leave handsome surplus. Before
the introduction of iron roads into the State.
wheat went begging for apurchaser at twenty
i've cents bushel, and in some sections of
the State was cheaper than wood for fuel:
This anomalous condition has been relieved by
railroads which afforded q profitable market
tor the grain, and in return brought cheap
fuel to the doors of the settlers on the vast
treeless tracts. And this ia what the L. F. &
u. road will do for the richest section of the
Garden State, that lying between Sauk Centre
and Big Stone Lake. Not only so, but it will
add from five to ten cents to every bushel of
wheat already tributary to the markets of the
West, but upon which a heavy tribute is laid
tor transportation. The question of who will
reap the benefits of the road is one that in
terests every farmer along the line. It is ev-
ldent that all who will find an outlet for their
grain to better market than that now at
hand, will share alike in the advantages. The
wheat raised dozed or twenty miles from the
road, and yet which is within hauling distance,
will be enhanced in price as many cents per
bushel as that raised in fields bisected by the
track, and it is but just that such territory
should bear it's equitable share of the cost of
construction. If wheat at Sauk Centre, for
example, is increased in value, every bushel
raised in Birchdale or Lake George receives q
like increase. These are facts which are COM
mended to the attention of our agricultural
friends along the road residing in towns not
directly on the line, but contiguous thereto.
From the Stevens County Tribune.
The advisability of voting a bonus,
at the coming election, to aid in the
construction of the Little Falls & Da>
kota Railroad, is to be discussed by
the Board Of Trade next Monday eve-
ming. The principal object to be
gained by having the question acted
upon at an early date, is to decide
definitely wheth we are to have the
road or not. Those who have been
and are expending time and money in
locating the line, have a right to know
before proceeding further, just what
the people of Stevens county will
do. A vote to aid the scheme is SIM
ply, at present, an assurance that we
are willing to aid, and that the enter
prise has our support. It makes no
particle of difference when the bonds
are voted, as the act as contained in
Chapter 143 Of Special Laws, provides
"that NO bonds shall be issued or de-
livered to the corporation or company
\ until the road, branch, or ex>
tension thereof, for the construction OF
which the bonds have been voted,
shall have been completed ready fo1
passage of and the cars running there.
on" y y X This effectually prevents
the issuance of the bonds until the
road is in operation.
From the Stevens County Tribune.
Col. Crooks, President of the l.. F,
& D. r. R., was in town yesterday,
and left for the "front" to join the
engineers, who are about fifteen OF
twenty miles west. The Colonel is in
dead earnest, and the early completion
of the outlet to Duluth is an assured
fact. Mr.. Skinner, of st. Paul, ac.
companies Col. Crooks, and will "a
with him over the lines to Browns
Valley. Mr.. s. surveyed q line from
here to the Missouri river, in 1871,
and his knowledge Of the country and
the line of the most feasible route, will
be Of great assistance in hurrying the
work of surveying to an early comple-
tion. Both gentlemen are astonished
at the wonderful growth, progress aud
development which a few years have
brought about. -. +. Ia.