Grant County herald. [volume] (Lancaster, Wis.) 1850-1968, 1883-11-08
THAT MYSTERIOUS RAILROAD.
An Effort Being Made to Head of the Dubuque
and Northwestern.

Various newspapers in this and other
localities have mentioned the fact that
party of surveyors were striking q line
of railroad on the east side of the Mis-
sissippi River northwardly, and none of
them (the newspapers) seem to know
anything about it. Railroad managers
are somewhat elose-mouthed, too much
so for the public S. il not their own, good,
and it is thought that if they were not
quite SO reticent the populace would not
entertain an intense feeling against
them as railroad monopolies. Rail-
roads have worked themselves into sys-
TENS, and each system is endeayoring
to swamp the other By obtaining advan-
tages of routes which perhaps the cause
of their secret workings in obtaining
right of way, but when that is accom-
plished the boom commences for the
purpose of obtaining local aid as the
work progresses. When local project
is announced the system watches its
progress and if a moiety of success is
manifest, it endeavors to obtain it by
free consent without price, or moves
toward heading it off, as it were, for the
purpose of preventing another ''sys-
tenn" from reaping the benefits. Con-
sequently the Milwaukee. the st. Paul,
the Chicago, Burlington and Quincy,
and the Northwestern systems" arc
watching each other with lynx eyes.
The Illinois Central has already made
several surveys north and northwest of
Dubuque, with a view of obtaining n
direct line between st. Paul and New
Orleans. The Chicago, Burlington and
Quincy System" have gazed with envy
upon the river route now owned by the
Milwaukee Company, and while it pools
and shakes hands over the s.bioody
chasm,n the former desires TO be indie
pendent of the latter, and consequently
seeks a route along the Missippi River
toward st. Paul and the great north
west.
This is the cause of the mooted ''mys-
FERROUS survey, which has been reliably
related by gentleman who is in the
ring. and as confederation of the ''sur-
mise it is learned that Mr.. G.. l.. Rood,
who has been u constant traveller and
has watched closely the preliminary
surveys by railroad companies the past
year, that the Chicago, Rock Island and
Pacific, and the Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy Company have had survey
ing parties out all summer. surveying
and locating routes TO the pine lands of
north Wisconsin. II is the opinion of
Mr. r. that the Chicago, Burlington
and Quincy Company will extend their
Chicago and Iowa line from Forreston,
H., TO Hanover. along the line of an
old survey examined by the head Off
cials of the company last April, thence
over an old grade originally intended
for the Illinois Central Railroad to Ga
lena, thence along the east side of the
Mississippi river to the mouth of the St.
Croix river, which is only twenty-five
miles from ST. Paul. Mr.. r. also states
that the Chicago, Rock Island and Pa
cific have surveyed line from. Red
Wing, Minnesota, to north Wisconsin.
and another route from Peoria, Illinois,
via. Rockford and Monroe, Wisconsin,
to north Wisconsin The Wisconsin
Central is locating a route from Chip
pewa Falls, Wisconsin 10 st. Paul via
saltwater. All indications now point
to an eventful year in railroad building
through this vicinity and Wisconsin.
and unless the Dubuque and Northwest
ern is put through the coming spring
Dubuque win be cut of on every side
and the last of her natural railroad ad-
vantages cut of. Dubuque Times.