Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-05-27
RAILROAD NEWS.

Work on the north bridge IS already
begun. .* e..
The south bridge is completed, and the
false work is being removed from it.
n. B. Evarts, Chief Engineer of the
Minnesota s. Northwestern r. r., retres
from the service of the Co. June LIST.
At the new station, Harrington, the
well is completed, and the spiles for the
water tank are driven. They are now
driving the spiles for the culverts through
Red Rock and Waltham.
Pat Geraghty, contractor for the grad
ing to the abutment on the east side of
the north bridge, will be through to-day.
The job was difficult one, and complet-
ed, so far, without accident. The rip
rapping will not be put on the embank-
ment until the track is laid.
The announcement OF the new fast
train to St. Louis and Kansas City, which
the Wabash advertises in the South as q
Lake Minnetonka train, seems to have
caused some stir among the Chicago, Bur
lington & Quincy people, and an official
of that road threatens to put on a train
that will leave St. Louis at noon and
reach Lake Minnetonka by breakfast time.
A st. Louis paper, referring to this mat
ter, says: The Central Iowa, it is said,
has fallen into the possession of the
Burlington. If this is the case, unless
the Wabash has binding contract, its
arrangement with the Central Iowa may
not last At present, however, the Wa
bash people are going in to make all they
can out of the new through service"
A Chicago dispatch of. May Goth says
the Dubuque & Sioux City has recently
received severe blow, which has aroused
the interest of the stockholders of certain
Iowa lines. The trouble has been caused
by the contract recently made by the Du-
buque s. Northwestern for the cOnstruc-
ton of fifty miles of new road, which, by
joining the new line of the Minnesota s.
Northwestern division, will parallel the
Illinois Central system. 1t is claimed
that the proposed extension of the Dubu-
que & Northwestern will hurt the bust
ness of the Iowa division of the Illinois
Central. Figures are cited to show a
recent steady decrease in the earnings of
the Dubuque 4 Sioux City and the Cedar
Falls & Minnesota, which are leased to
the Illinois Central company.
Officers of the Minnesota s. Northwes-
tern are in Dodge and Mower counties,
Mimi, and Mitchell county. Iowa, ar
ranging for right of way over the route
of the old projected Sea Coast, of which
Gov. Ramsey is the father. The new line
is to be cutoff for through Chicago &
St. Paul business, saving about thirty
miles in distance over the route by Aus
tin and Mona. The projected road leaves
the present line of the Minnesota s. North
western on section 10 in the town of Hay
field. in the southern part of Dodge coun-
ty, and runs southeasterly through Dex-
ter, Taopi and Rlceville, to connection
with the proposed Dubuque & North
western. Surveyors started out from
Hayfeld Wednesday, and are now on the
line. Simply the right of way is asked
by the company, and work will be COM
menced this summer. Those in position
to know give assurance that cars will be
running over this new line within year.
Traffic arrangements between the ILL
nois Central and the Minnesota & North
western were completed some time ago
by which the former gains access to St.
Paul over the latter line. The Burling
ton & Quincy is also ANXIOUS to come in
over the Minnesota g. Northwestern, and
will probably build across from Manly
Junction to Mona. This will require the
building of only few miles of new road.
Illinois Central business will all go by
way of Mona.-Pioneer Press, May Esd.