Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-08-19
MINI. + NV. RAILROAD NEWS,


The gravel train is now at work few
miles north of this city. Austin is head
quarters for the crew.
The company has out its first flyers,
which state that business between St.
Paul, Minneapolis and Chicago will be
| opened September /.
I A Dodge Center artist is selling large
| number of stereoscopic views of the
bridges and other points of interest on the
MINI. s. NV. He will take the St.
Paul bridge as soon as it is finished
The St. Paul excursion train will leave
Usage tomorrow at 10 a. III. Forty five
tickets only were assigned to Usage,
| which do not begin to go around. Those
left out IN the cold are not feeling we'll.
The Waterloo Courier says an extern
sive railroad combination may he looked
for if the report of ex-President Acker
mans investigations is satisfactory, and
Iowa will probably have system under
one management which shall he very i'm
portant. indeed.
Arthur Cole, formerly of Cameron, Mis-
souri,, but later of Hastings, Mimi, has
been employed as telegraph operator
and clerk at the passenger station. Mr..
Cole has the appearance of very pleas
ant gentleman. He is married and ex-
poets soon to bring his wife to Austin.
The following agents have been ap-
pointed tor the stations named on the
Minnesota s. Northwestern R. r. St.
Paul, W. G. Melville; Rich Valley, w.
NJ. Brooke; Randolph, H. D. Hathaway ;
Kenyon, WE. Tate; West Concord, L. D.
Garvin; Dodge Center, S. w. Kelley
Austin, O. B. Johnson; Mona, D. w. Lo-
ban.
Railroad Commissioners Baker and
Becker returned last week Wednesday
from n inspection trip over the Min
nesota & Northwestern railroad and were
as far north as Waterloo, Iowa, on the
Illinois Central. Gen. Baker says the
roadbcd is the best that has ever been
built by any new road, while the depot
buildings excel those of any other COM
| pany IN the state.
The Usage News says: Up. w. McCulla,
the Milwaukee agent at Lyle, was bounced
a day or two ago for allowing the new
road to put a telegraphic instrument into
their depot SO as to connect with the short
line from Mona, no connection having
been formed with the Milwaukee line.
MIR. McCulla is very accommodating
and gentlemanly agent and good citi-
zen. Lyle parts with him very reluc.
tantlv."
It is rumored that Turner s. Belamy,
! of Nashua, have completed arrangements
with the Minnesota & Northwestern Rail-
| way Company whereby they are to con-
troll the grain trade of that line of road,
and that they will put up an elevator
at each station along the line. They
now have elevators or warehouses at all
the stations on the branch. They have
employed Mr.. A. Carpenter as superin
tendent and general manager over the
-Osage Neaos.
If Mr.. Ackerman's report is favorable.
and IS accepted by the companies, it is en-
tirely probable that an arrangement will
be made by which the lines mentioned
will all come under one management. If
this is done, what will be the effect upon
the Dubuque & Northwestern? If Mr..
Stickney's road from St. Paul to Mona is
brought into the system suggested, will
be 20 on with the construction of the
D. & NV? In such an event there
would seem to he no use for the latter
road to him if he unltes in an arrangement
which will tie up the road from Waterloo
to Mona with the Cedar Falls and Mime
sofa and Dubuque & Sioux City roads,
Dubuque Times.
The statement was published in the
Sunday Globe that the Minnesota & North
western charged lthe Milwaukee & St.
Paul road with cutting freight rates from
Chicago to Austin, Mimi, and threatened
retaliation. That the officials of the NJ
& N. w. believe they have good ground
for their belief that rates are being cut as
| alleged is shown by the fact that General
Freight Agent Littell, Of that line, issued
instructions to all agents Ito receive
freight at any price necessary to secure
it," If it had to be taken at cents Or less
per hundred. 1t is understood that this
applies to freight shipped both from Chi
cago and St. Paul to Austin. and to all
classes, and throws down the gauntlet for
a rate war. What the result will be can
only be conjectured, for, if continued, it