Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-04-29
MINNESOTA & NV. X. K. NOTES.

Workmen are engaged putting up a
water tank for the VI. & NV. X. r. at
Dodge Center.
About ninety men are engaged in work
at different points on the line Of the rail
road in Dodge county.
Geo. Ward, the orr 9lnal contractor,
! commenced grading through the city
Monday. Pat. Geraghty gave up his sub
contract.
Chief Engineer Evarts promises the
people of Dodge Centre an excursion train
over the new road from that point to st.
Paul July 4th.
Last Thursday the Minnesota & North
western r. r. Co. withdrew their pro
position made to the township of Wal
! than, the vote GA the proposition to
issue bonds was not voted on last Satur-
day as announced.
Mr. Easton; one Of the contractors on
the NJ. & n. W., has shipped his mules
and grading tools and implements to
Sycamore, Ill. Monday he took the train
himself for that point where he will start
in on q grading contract for the Chicago
Il Northwestern.
The point where the depot will be To-
; Gated has not yet been settled Three
| side tracks have been staked out, and if
the depot is located at the centre point of
! the sidc-tracks as is usual, it will come
near the place where Sargents house
| stood. The chances are ten to one that
| the depot will be somewhere in block 9,
although we shall not perhaps know pos
! itivcly for several weeks yet.
Several large forces of men are at work
near Fl. Dodge on the Illinois Central
| -; n r. 10 hat
a new time schedule will go into effect as
soon as the work IS completed and much
/ better time Will then be made. For the
| last few weeks they have been distribut
ing oak ties along the branch, and now
! have them thlckly strcwn along the track
! from here to the Cedar Falls Junction.
Men who ought to know say that this
means a great improvement III the trace,
and in all probability that steel rails will
be put down during the summer.-Osnye
! Ip>r") 4Nrecs.
Work on the Minnesota & Northwest
crn is progressing rapidly. Two engines
arc kept constantly at work, one at the
front and the other running out supplies
as they are needed. The ties used are
from the lines Of the Duluth and
Manitoba roads, and are all on the ground
except about two hundred car loads.
The company has received 100 flat cars
built for it by the Haskell & Burke Car
company of Michigan City, Ind. Other
rolling stock is now building and will ar.
rive as fast as the road is ready to receive
it, 1t is generally supposed that Mr.
Stickney built his road with the intention
of ultimately selling it to the Illinois Cen
trail, which road now has Its northern ter
minus at Mona, Iowa. The road would
undoubtedly be Of great Importance to
that company as it would give it route
to st. Paul and Minneapolis that would
compare favorably with competing lines
Several significant facts of late occur
renee, however. point to other conclus
ions as the most reasonable. The engine;
of the Minnesota s. Northwestern wher
received from Paterson, \, j.. were takc1
to the shops Of the Minneapolis & St
Louis, and there fitted up. The con
struction outfit now at work north o.
Cascade is taken entirely from the same
road All the material used in building
Las been hauled over the Rock Island sys
TEN, and it is not too much to say that ir
all probability it will be run like the Min
neapolis & St. Louis as part Of that sys
TEN. The advantages OF controlling Thu
line by the Rock Island would be obvious
} In the first place, it would give it linl
or It's own INTO ST. faul, whereas IL no"
uses the tracks Of the Manitoba; secondly
it is seven miles shorter from St. Paul Il
Alder. Lea via Cascade than ny Mime
apolia, and it would give 1t Faribault AM
Mortified, two of the best towns in tn
state In the event of running fas
: Chicago train this route would catch
.. good share of the eastern passenger bust
! ness II is generally understood that Nj
Sticknpy il buiIding the road for thOs
, who want it the most, and it looks yer.
much as though that might mean tn
Rock Island. -Pioaesr Press, Ap-t! "a