The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-09-18
IHE RAILROAD SITUATION

IL spite of the fact that WorthingtOn
has been irremediably left out in the
cold by the construction of the Bis
marck extension Of the Burlington
road, Bro. Miller still finds occasion to
he Jolly" and insists that the useless
Burlington stub to Worthington, soon
to be abandoned, will certainly be ex-
tended to some northern connection.
Bro. Miller's authority for the state
ment he makes is his own opinion on
the matter and he finds substantial
grounds for the faith that is in him in
the fact that certain railroad maps
show some sort Of line running nOrtl,
from Worthington which he supposes
Is intended to represent proposed
railroad Observation-Disclosures Herald.
We do not copy the above with view
to replying to the Herald. That paper
is so uniformly unfair, 50 sure to mis-
represent and garblr, so studiously de-
termined to suppress the facts about
Worthington and Mobiles county. and
80 certain to publish and magnify any
false statement concerning this CON-
munity, that we pass over most Of its
statements without notice.
But we copy the above because it
furnishes us text for relterating some
old facts and presenting some new ones
concerning the railroad situation.
If the Herald had been fair, which it
rarely or never is, it would have stated
in the above paragraph that our ''au-
thority" for saying the road would be
extended north was the mortgage
which, we mentioned and which we said
was recorded in this county. That
mortgage covers road to be built
from Worthington Ito some point in
eastern or northeastern Dakota.n At
the same time the i. G.. II. & n. com.
lmny mortgnged road to be built from
lake Park t" Sibley. They set to work
to bnild the Lake Park line first. The
road north from Worthington will be
taken up next. Or better still. if it
should take that turn. the Minneapolis
Il st. Louis will lie built into Worth
ington from the north and Il connection
with the Fargo southern will be built
to OrtOnville or to some point near
there
The "maps'' which We mentioned and
whicl, the Herald slurs were examined
last winter. They showed u) Il line to
be built from Lake Park to Watertown:
(2) "a line from Worthinston 10 Water
town via OF the Minneapolis & ST..
Louis. tapping the latter read about G5
miles north of Worthington; (3) Il line
to connect will! the Fargo Southern at
or near Ortonviile. This map was pre-
pared by the Rock Island company
showing their projected lines. Now
What has been done to follow ont the
plans marked on this map? The Lake
Park line is rushing ahead and will be
to Watertown before winter sets in.
The Minneapolis & St. Louis is rushing
along from Morton and will reach
Watertown before November. The
two companies, through their repre-
sentatives, met recently in Minneapolis
and laid the plans to build the joint
line from Watertown to Bismarck.
In all this they have gone by the "map'
which the Herald attempts to ridicule
Three-fourtts of the work is being done
according to the map" and it is rea-
sonable to suppose that the other
fourth will be done as laid down on the
''map.' The ''map'' was, in the ey es
Of the Herald, an exceedingly reliable
paper when it showed a road through
Luverne, but the same map is, in the
eyes Of the Herald, exceedingly unre.
liable when it shows road north from
Worthiogton.
Well, the ADVANCE outlined all this
last winter, and the Watertown and
Bismarck papers copied it and won-
dered whether there was anything III it.
while the Herald copied and endorsed
so much as related to a road through
Luverne; and, as to the rest, warned
the public that the ADVANCE always
was ''erratic," and ''lunatic,'' and
''spiritualistic" and "Ninfidel," any.
way. Nobody could believe such a
paper only so far as it published the
fact that a road was projected to Lu-
verne.
Now for some moro railroad FORE
casting and aftcasting, iD which time
will bear us out as it has done hereto
fore:
The Burlington folks few days ago
bought 4 section Of land eleven miles
south of Pipestone at the junction Of
the line surveyed northwest last winter
from Worthington. It will be remem-
bered that the surveyors run a line
from Worthington and inte:sected the
Sibley and Luverne line about eleven
miles south of Pipestone. The Bur-
Hngton folks paid oyer $1,000 cash for
this section of land. Now what do
they want with whole section at that
point? Or, in fact, why buy at that
point at all, since the line from here is
so far only on paper?
We believe it means "business. :"
ihere is to be a junction at that point
ana an important town, possibly
division.
we recur now to the argument so
"'!en used, viz: that the stright cut,
AIRLINE will be through Worthington,
o''""Se 1t IS the short straight cut.