Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1880-02-03
Up The i'm.
Movements Of the enslnssrs Of the
Milwaukee Road.
The Bridge Builders are At Work
On the jim.
Runner Revived that the milwaukee,
Company will Build Nerthward
from Mttchsll % q Point
East Of Pierre.

from Mttchsll 60 . Point
East OF Pierre.
s Especial Correspondence
sFiresteel, Feb. l.-Engineer F. w. Kim.
ball, Of the Milwaukee road, with 4 numbe,
OF assistants, left here this morning for
reconnaissance in the interest of Lis com,
pany, but for what particular purpose o,
objective point is not known. Among
some it is understood that he j.
going direct to Deadwood to make
arrangements for the survey Of a line from
the Missouri river t the Hills, while others
understand his movements to be for the
purpose Of inipecting the country north.
ward from here to a point directly cas-,
from Fort Pierre, With the view of findings
route from the terminus Of the grade Al
Mitchell up the Jim valley to the poin,
above indicated, and thence to Pierre, to
head ofthe Northwestern. The latter sup.
position, in regard to his movements, il
strengthened by the fact that he started up
the valley of tie river instead of across the
country towards the Missouri river,
aud BY the further circumstance that
his preparations and outfit were
sufficient only for a five or six
days trip, altogether insufficient for such a
journey as the first supposers have started
him IN. The movement up the Jim revives
the rumors which prevailed several months
ago that it was the intention of the Milwaa-
kee company to build northward from
Mitchell to q point on the Jim river where
the line would be intersected by the Mime
sofa Southern building, westward from Flan-
dreau and from thence join in one track
Westward to the Missouri river, and even
tuslly to the Hills and beyond. This road
from Mitchell %northward would form a link
in the line which is sooner or later TO con.
meet Yankton with the Northern Pacific and
furnish the entire valley with what every
one in the valley wants-a north and south
road. Yankton should relax no effort TO
keep alive the movement to induce the
Atchison road to build northward to the
Missouri river at Green Island. With this
accomplished, . road up the Jim valley will
speedily follow, placing Yankton in the
most favorable position on one of the most
important railroad lines ON the continent
connecting the fertile wheat fields of the
Jim river valley and northern Dakota with
all the important commercial marts of the
south and west.
The bridge builders of the Milwaukee
company have arrived here, and will con.
mence tomorrow driving the piles for the
bridge across the Jim. It is given out that
track laying will be resumed on the
Firestesl or Mitchell branch in about two
weeks, and pushed forward as rapidly as
possible until the end Of the grade at
Mitchell is reached. About twenty-fv
miles of track remain to be laid. 2 s'
F. p. Benjamin, of Atchison, Kansas,
proprietor Of the mail line between Fire.
steel and Jamestown, arrived here last eve
ming for the purpose of inspecting the line
and seeing how the "old thing works." HIS
line is 300 miles long and lies over a tree
less country and at present very sparsely
settled. During the very friged spell in
December his drivers were terribly punish
cd by the old-frequently being COM
PEELED to lie out on the prairie
over night with no other shelter
that furnished by %burrowing in the
SNOW No drivers lost their lives, or were
even severely frozen, but about twenty-five
horses succumbed to the cold and persisted.
In the morning I shall visit Mitchell, the
would'be future capital, and the home Of
Capitol, the champion of territorial
from whence 1 will again report to
The Press readers. z.
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