Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1882-05-20
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AT tne fieiin, 10 organize ana lay out 4
railroad that Gems TO suit every town
i'm the Hills. 1t suits because it is To be
run into every town in the Hills, and it
is hardly necessary for Ms to add that it
viii suit Custer. Even the Rapid City
Journal, which was somewhat surprised,
is suited and greatly impressed with
the practicability Of the scheme, al
though the route to be followed in the
Hills is virtually the same as that mapped
ont by the CHRONICLE sometime ago and
which the Journal then declared was
impracticable. The following are the
facts as published in ihe Pioneer Of the
9th
Yankton, May z, 1sS2.-Dakota, Wyo-
ming & Western railroad company, Just
Incorporated, and papers fled here.
Length Of road in Dakota, including
north and south branches, $50 miles.
From parties conversant with gentle
men interested i'm the movement and
/! with the situation, we gather the follow
ing facts:
The road will start at the Nebraska,
crossing the Cheyenne river near the
mouth of Rapid creek to a few miles
above Rapid City, thence through i
canyon near Sheridan, following mp
Spring creek crossing over to Castle and
Keeping the line Of the last named
stream to very nea It's source; thence
passing along the divide into Wyoming
Il little north of the Salt springs.
The south branch of this road will be-
gin at Hill City, running through Custer
and Laramie. and will he narrow gauge
and have a direct connection with the
Jay Gould system of narrow gauge roads
in Colorado.
The north branch will begin at Rapid
City, thence to Lead, Central and Dead
wood, its present final objective point
being the Hay creek coal fields.
The head of the syndicate which is to
construct this system of roads will be in
the Hills within three weeks ready to
begin operations.
Grading will be commenced at the
eastern end, near Fort Niobrara, also in
the Hills at Rapid City, to which point
iron or steel rails will be hauled in, and
laid TO enable contractors to run ties out.
and the same plan will be adopted on
the north and south branches, with
every probality of full completion to
Custer this summer, also from Rapid
City to the Cheyenne river.
ANOTHER DISPATCH.
While we write the following dispatch
is received:
New York, May I, lSS2.-The charter
for the western end ofthe Dakota, Wvo-
ming 4 Western railroad was signed
here and the papers forwarded for the
signature Of James HALEY, banker of
Rapid City, Dakota.
The lines in both territories will be
consolidated, and the whole work car
ried through to completion before the
close OF 1853.
The importance Of this great WORK to
all classes of people in and about the
Hills cannot be overestimated. At one
single blow, SO to speak, it solves and
completely fills the railroad problem in
every direction, placing Us in direct
communication with the east, west and
south, including nearly all the mining
camps of Colorado. Montana, Utah, Ari-
IONA, Idaho, Nevada and California, and
in all human probability, to proceed
north at no distant day, uniting with
the Northern Pacific and ultimately ex-
tending into the British Possessions,
thus with the Denver and New Orleans,
and the New Orleans and Fort Worth,
now approaching each other at the rate
of three miles per day, forming an al
most direct line of railway from Winnie
peg on the north to New Orleans and
Galveston on the south, as well as Mex
leo and becoming as important n factor
In the commercial transactions of the
country north and south as is the Union
Pacific to the east and west.
LATER.
A letter received at the Pioneer office
last evening conveys the gratifying in
telligence that orders had been received
by Samuel Scott, surveyor of the Wyo.
ming and Dakota railroad COMPANY. TO
Immediately begin preliminary work.
and in obedience thereto that official
would start out as soon as the weather
shall become settled. The letter also
stated that papers locating the Wyoming
portion of the line had been received bv
Mr.. HALEY, and by him signed and for.
warded to Cheyenne for fling-thus
completing the filing of all papers. This
looks as though the meant
business, and to push the work through
to completion at the earliest possible
moment. Rapid is, of course, iubilant
over the prospects, and is giving the en-
terprise every possible encouragement.
Mr.. Wagstaff, Of New York. is very
much interested in the undertaking; be.
lieves it n of the best schemes that