Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1880-08-04
TRACK TOPICS.
Railroad Movements in Dakota and Adja.
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Mitchell, D. T., July 3O-Hon. J. Law
Ter of Prairie du Chen, Wis, and DIR. J.
II. Daniels of Minnesota; started this
morning en- route for the Brule Sioux
country. Engineer Kimball of the Chi
cago, Milwaukee & st. Paul, and Capt.
Dougherty, U. S. A., are to accompany
them. They hope to arrange all matters
pertaining to fright of way" through the
territory before returning. The grade is
nearly completed to point twenty miles
west Of here.
Dell Rapids, D. r., July 3d.. M.
Egan, superintendent of the Southern
Minnesota division Of the c., M. & st. p.
II. r., was here yesterday, making final
arrangements for the completion of the
road to this point. Track laying has
been ordered to commence on the line
from Flandreau to this place next week
and will probably reach here inside of
thirty days.
Brookings, ID. T., July 31-The Chica-
go & Northwestern railroad company has
decided to connect its Black Hills lines
of road with Watertown on the main line,
BY road from Volga up the Sioux river.
Work will be begun at once, and the
grade completed and IRON laid this way.
The distance is sixty miles. The Water
town line will be extended to the James
river to o connection with the James
river branch, but this will probably not
be done this fall. With the completion
Of the extension from Tracy to Fort
Pierre the Chicago & Northwestern will
have q continuous air line from Chicago
to the; upper Missouri river;of 1888 miles
in length. To reach the Black Hills the
company will have to construct only s16O
miles more road. from Fort Pierre.
Sioux City Journal, Sd: By the sur
vey as located between Neleigh and
O'Neil City the distance is thirty-seven
miles. 1t is now likely that this extern
sion Of the Sioux City and Pacific will be
built this fall. The grades will be easy
and the work light. O'Neil City is a
little north Of west Of Neleigh. The road
between will follow the bottom land
along the main Elkhorn. Work will
begin at this city in day or two on the
temporary track which the st. Paul folks
will lay to get their fiat cars and engines
down to the gumbo point, there to be
loaded on the recently launched barge
and crossed over to the Nebraska side
tor construction purpose. The Yank-
ton Press OF July 81, in commenting on
the fact that this city will endeavor to
have the repair shops of the Sioux City
and Dakota removed from Yankton to
Sioux City, intimates that if the shops
are removed it will be done to punish
Yankton for her pig-headed conduct to-
ward the Milwaukee road. Now the
shops should be moved for no
such reason. The question of dol
lars and cents should be, and probably
will be the only consideration that will
induce the company to bring the shops
to Sioux City It is claimed in favor of
their removal, that here they would be
more accessible to all parts of the two
lines of the road; that skilled mechanics
and laborers'ar are plentier here, and extra
help could be more easily called in; that
the general offices are here,and the shops
could be more conveniently handled if il
sight; that oil the coal and most of the
iron and lumber used by the shops i.
taken through this city to Yankton, the
company thus losing the haul between
the towns; that the present site of the
Yankton shops is likely to go into the
river, and that Sioux City is ready to pu
up literally for the advantages to be de
rived from the coming of the shops.