Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1884-04-30
LATEST NEWS ABOUT THE AUSTIN,
MANKATO & ST. CLOUD r.. r.

The following from the Glencoe Enter
prise explains itself:
The undersigned committee appointed
to confer with Gen. J. W. Bishop. presi-
dent of the St. Cloud, Mankato & Austin
railroad, to ascertain the conditions on
which we can secure the building of the
that we met Gen. Bishop by appointment
at his office April Sd and ascertained the
conditions on which the road will be
built from Litchfield to this point the
present season, to-wit: For the sum OF
fourteen thousand dollars in six per cent
bonds payable in ten or twenty years,
with same conditions as other bonds arc
issued along the line. From information
derived from Gen. Bishop we are satisfied
that work will commence at once after
Glencoe and Hutchinson comply with
the conditions, and that the road will be
running early this fall and that next yeal
it will be completed from Glencoe through
to Mankato, and from Litchfield through
to St. Cloud, if not this season. We
would therefore recommend that the
voters of the town of Glencoe be asked
to authorize the issuance of fourteen
thousand dollars in bonds for that pur-
pose.
Also the following from the Litchfield
Neecs Ledger, of April "a:
Every day we meet parties who ask
questions relative to the prospect Of the
building of the Austin, Mankato & st.
Cloud railroad this coming summer. We
have asked every man whom we have met
thing authentic regarding it and have
watched the exchanges for every little
crumb of prospect, and have given our
readers the benefit Time after time has
been set for the commencement of active
operations and our hopes have been
buoyed up for the time being as we hope
fully waited for the appointed times, only
to be blasted as they each in their turn
passed by without realizing our cherished
hopes. We have finally settled down to
the belief that the ways of 'tconstruc.
ton company" are deep and dark, and
past finding out-that our hope for peace
of mind is to resign ourselves to the in.
evitable, whatever that may be.
It is now reported that at least part OF
the road will be built this season. Here
tofore we had been led to believe that the
whole had to be built and cars running
thereon prior to December 18th, 1884, in
order that the COmpany's claim on Aeekel
cOunty's bonds should become valid
Upon the announcement that only parts Of
the road might be built we turned to our
files and carefully read the contract under
which the bonds were voted. We fine
that the contract is so cunningly wordeG
that the probabilities are that should 6
portion of the road be built-say from
Litchfeld to Grandchildren county's
bonds would be held good in proportion
to the number of miles of road built ir
the county. If this state of facts should
prove true, and such portion of the
road be built, then it would come with {
poor grace for Union Grove, Manannah
Forest City and Forest Prairie to have tt
walk up to the captains Office and helI
settle for something they did not get, anc
it would be asking a good deal Of then
that they feel perfectly good-natured owe
the matter. We hope nothing of the kline
may ever occur, but give the facts as W.
find them in order that our readers may
not be again taken by surprise.