Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1885-07-22
THE MOTHER CITY.
Palnud Tells the People of
the Advantages Pos
sessed by YanktOn.
The Coming Railroad Furnishes the
Inspiration and Magnificent
Country the Facts.

Special Correspondence of The Chicago Inter
Ocean.
sYankton, ID. T. July 1.-THE most
| important move on the railroad map of
Dakota the persent year will shortly be
made by the Chicago & Northwestern
Railway. Before Thanksgiving next the
cars of that company will be running
into Yankton.
The Northwestern will build from
Oentreviile, D. T., station on It's Iowa.
Dakota line, which is distant only TWEEN.
ty.nine miles from Yankton. The build
ing of the Yankton line, while FORE
gone conclusion 80 far as the future was
concerned, might have been delayed
still another year but for the enterprise
and zeal of the people of Yankton. A
citizens committee was sent to Chicago
at the time of the stockholders meeting
of the Northwestern Road, with pro-
position to grade the line from Yankton
to Centreville and furnish right of way,
or to give the sum of $4,000 in cash, for
the construction and completion of the
road between those points.
iSe Northwestern had a permanent
survey run and profile of the country
made. and, upon receiving the engineers
report. accepted the proposition of citi-
zens of Yankton to obtain right of way
and grade the road.
Rlght-of-way men take the field in a
day or two, grading will be commenced
during the present month, and track
laying will be reached in September.
AS said, the cars of the Chicago &
Northwestern will be running into Yank.
ton before next Thanksgiving day, and
it will be something to be thankful for
the new railroad that is to lead the ay
in restoring to Yankton, mother of Da-
kota, her prestige an hundred fold in
creased as the leading center of CONNER
cial activity in this great territory.
To those who have had the faith of
the writer in this site and city it has
been only question of time all along
| as to YanktOn's future, and slime at last
sets all things even,' so Byron sang, and
80 the logic of events has proven the
rule to which the exceptions are rarer
| than the easily discouraged may believe.
1t didn't need the building of the North
| western into Yankton this .year-wel-
come and encouraging as that signif-
cant event is-to keep alive that faith,
nor will they who hold it expect to wit
ness the spectacle of Rome built dur
ing the next day after the Northwestern
reaches Yankton.
The great work of the town-builder
at Yankton is the task of years. What
has been done here already in the face
| Of many and multiplied disadvantages
and dlscouragements may safely be
| taken as an earnest for the future.
The coming railroad will prove of i'm.
mense advantage to Yankton IN more
| ways than one. 1t will open new and tai
reaching lines of communication, and
afford that healthy competition which
Yankton has never had the means of
enjoying.
With both the Chicago, Milwau.
kee & st. Paul and the Chicago &
Northwestern Railways, and the Mis-
souri, river, Yankton will always have
the independent outlet.
In this electric age second railroad
| beats two rivers all follow as an arbiter
of traffic, although a waterway Is not
| without its uses and advantages.
1t looks as if the building into Yank-
ton by the Northwestern was in the
nature of an aggressive movement
which would not stop with the con.
struction of thirty miles of road. It is
l SOA oeAAAy Oh Al VuoAou VI GCAl1UUly
territory which has been SO thoroughly
and exclusively the domain of the Mil.
waukee road, as to lead the latter into
an abuse of the monopoly it has SO long
enjoyed.
| Now that the Northwestern has de.
termined to wait no longer before com
ing into Yankton, it would not be
surprising, it should strike on out from
Yankton northwest ub the Missoari val
ley. Going through Bon Homme
Charles Mix. Douglas, and Brule
counties, the new road would penetrate
a fertile region. much Of which is under
cultivation at the present time. Suct
aroad might probably bo continued il
time up the river to Bismarck and be
yond, with lines into Chamberlain
Pierre, and other points on the big
Muddy.
i The Miluaukee & st. Paul might seel
to hold its own IN middle-southern Da
kota by throwing out line from Scot
land, distant thirty miles northwest Q
Yankton, taking northwesterly direc
tion, to the north of the line describe,
above as prospective Chicago {
Northwestern extension.
In any event the Milwaukee road vii
build the gap between Scotland an,
Mitchell, in it's james river line, and q
its earliest practicable date will bull
from Sioux City to Defiance, on it
Council Bluffs division. This woul
put Yankton on the most important Z
the through lines into Dakota operate
by the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Pau
railway. The day is not distant, indeed
when the Milwaukee company will b
able to offer to Yankton superior facil
ties in the way of travel to those er
joyed to-day by any town i'll souther
Dakota.
i It can be seen at glance on consult
ing the map that the completion of til
Northwestern from CentreviiIe to Yank
ton, and the closing il of the Scotland
Mitchell gap On the Milwaukee & st
Paul, will cause Yankton to become th
most accessible point in the entire terr
tory.
Whatever railroad building is done il
the interior of Dakota in the future wi
help Ysnkton by extending her railwa
connections just SO much farther, an
the construction of ono or two addition
al lines of road radiating directly fror
Yankton will forever fix the statues {
the Mother City as q great railroad Ger
ter.
And an examination of the map wi
show how admirably in every respec
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