The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1884-05-01
RAILROAD NEWS.
TIE FARGO SOUTHERN BY JUNE 18TH.
A recent item i'll the Pioneer Press

TIE FARGO SOUTHERN BY JUNE 18TH.
A recent item III the Pioneer Press
says:
President Sargent. of the Fargo
Southern, was im st. Paul yestestlay il
consultation with General Manager
Marvel, of the Manitoba, regarding
the transportation of construction ma.
terial. Mr.. Sargent expects to have
his road completed by the 18th Of June.
Ninety two miles of track yet remain
t" be laid. Track laying, he says, was
commenced Monday from Fargo. aud
from Wahpeton yesterday. Track is
already laid two miles out from Orton.
vile, and from that point workmen
will also be started out during the
present week. Mr.. Sargent expresses
the utmost confidence in the Fargo
Southern, and says sufficient business
has already been guaranteed to make
the road success from its opening.
We published few weeks ago des-
patch from Fargo saying that the Far
60 Southern expected to be connected
with W"rthington by September. If
the road is completed to Ortonville by
June 18th, it ought to be- an easy mat.
ter to build from here to Ortonville by
the first of September.
WILL TIE BURLINGTON BUILD NORTH
THIS SEASON?
Within five or six weeks past the
ADVANCE has published dispatches
and newspaper statements from New
York, Chicago, st. Paul, Cedar Rap
ids, and other points, to the effect
that the b. e. r. & N. was to he ex-
tended ''north from Worthington this
season." We are still asked daily will
the road push on this summer? We. of
course, cannot say positively. We only
know that all outside and inside infor-
nation is to the effect that the compa-
ny intend to build north this summer
to connect with the Minneapolis s. St.
Louis at or about Swan Lake.
The latest information from parties
who ought to know is that the survey
ors will be here to locate the line and
set the grade stakes as soon as the sur
vey of the >ibley branch is completed.
Eighty or ninety days are enough, to
build from here to Swan Lake.
The Rock Island has so many exten.
sions on the map that it is difficult to
keep up with it's movements and to tell
just where its projects are materialized
and being transferred from the map to
the solid ground.
This much is set down as now under
way:
l. TheLake Park or Sibley anch is
contracted from Lake Park to Pipe
stone and the surveyors are running a
line from Pipestone toward Water
town. Oak.
2. Eighty miles from Morton, or
Redwood Falls, west toward Water
t)wn, are under contract.
8. The Clinton branch in Iowa is
not only under contract but work is
going on.
RAILROADS ALL AROUND.
The Currie Minnesotian of last week
says:
Railroad building in this part of the
state will soon he lively. The contrac-
tors for building the extension from
Redwood Falls were over the line. last
week letting subcontracts.
Contract for laying the ties and iron
on the Fargo Southern for the compile
tiOn of the road to Ortonvi|le has been
awarded to Geo. F0rley and the work
to be pushed.
The Omaha road are now hauling
materials to Woodstock for the extel-
sion to Pinestone City and grading con-
tractor vas over the line this week. It
won't take them long to go into Pipe
stone. The surveyors are at work on
the line from Sibley through Luverne
to PipestOne and beyond into Dakota.
The officers of the Burlington road and
the knowing ones persist that the line
from WOrthin0tOn north through
Tracy to connect with the Redwood
Falls road will be built this season.