Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-07-29
MINI. 3 NV. RAILROAD news.


70 MINI. q NV. RAILROAD NEWS.
A stock yard for the new road is to be
fitted up in Austin soon.
Five new coaches and a smoking car
went up to St. Paul on the new line Mon
day Morning
The Minnesota and Northwestern has
been announced as member of the local
passenger association.
! The MINI. s. NV. trains make con-
nections both ways with the passenger
trains on the Northwestern Mt Dodge
Center
The fence-builders have reached Dodge
Centre. They build about two miles of
fence each day-one mile on each side of
the track.
The time of the new route from St.
Paul to Chicago will be twenty-six miles
per hour including stops. which will
make the actual running time consider
bly, faster.
The new depot erected by the Mime
sofa s. Northwestern r. r., is being
painted this week by men from St. Paul.
The color will he bottle green, striped
with red
A wheat warehouse is to be erected on
the Minnesota & Northwestern r. r.
south of the freight house at once, by
VanDuzen s. Co. An elevator will be
erected later.
The mammoth freight hou sc of the
Mlnn. & NV. was completed yesterday
except the painting. In the northwest
corner of the building a pleasant office
has been fitted up.
The Illinois Central people are manu-
featuring seven new engines to run on
the road between Chicago and Waterloo.
They are also making some beautiful
sleepers for use on the same line.
Station Agent Johnson informs us that
1t will probably be the LIST Of September
before through trains will be run. All
on account of bad luck in getting mate
rial through for the span of the Missis-
sippi bridge ut St. Paul.
Tickets are now on sale between local
points and St. Paul over the MINI. &
NV. single rate, Austin to St. Paul,
$3.50; round trip, $3.50. Ten cents ad-
ditional charged if fare is paid to conduc-
tor. The exact distance from St. Paul to
Norma, via the new road, is 11Ot miles.
TO Austin, 81 40.
About one hundred box cars, cabooses
and coaches belonging to the Minnesota
& Northwestern railroad company have
passed up the branch during the past ten
days. The rolling stock is first~clas in
every respect, so we are informed by rail
road men who are supposed to be COM
potent judges.-St Aas9nr Enterprise.
The NJ. & n. w company are still hold
ing off in the matter Of building their de-
pot at Dodge Center, hoping to make ar
rangements for union station with the
C. & N. W. 10 our notion, such union
at junction points should be required by
law for the accommodation of the tray
| ClAuS puDAAC, hllu CHC ~. W. COu1HllSSlOIl-
ers should be empowered to decide when
the public interest will be conserved
thereby.-Kosson Express, 2lst.
w. II. Morris, foreman of the depot
building crew, has completed the Austin
station, and left for Dodge Centre Mon
day morning, where he is to start on the
station-house for that place. The build
ing is to be for passengers and freight
combined; size 22x70. The next depot
to be built will he at bayfield,. No de-
pots will probably be erected at Waltham
or Red Rock this year.
Citizens of Rochester, St. Charles and
adjacent towns are preparing for man.
moth excursion to St. Paul via Dodge
Center and the Minnesota & Northwest
ern railroad, and unless the present pre-
gram is changed they will arrive in St.
Paul Thursday, Aug. 6. The incoming
is to celebrate the effecting of closer rail
relations between Rochester and its sister
towns and the state capital Pioneer
Press.
u. N1Oll1o VI l. u11UdulC, tuc Oul1uCl
of the new depot of the Minnesota &
Northwestern r. r. in Austin, is both a
pleasant gentleman to meet, and first
class artisan. lie has built, as foreman
of the depot department, all the dePots
on the new line, save one. He has recent
ly been intrustcd with the supervision of
the construction of all the depots, ware
houses and stockyards on the road Mr.
Morris is u young man. and the RESPONSE
bility put upon him is significant of the
confidence placed in him by the compa-
ny, and his individual ability and enter
prise.
Concerning the Wapsic railroad, the
New Hampton Courier says the follow
ing:
The whole length of grade is nine and
onc-fourth miles. which will be ready for
the ties oday, and a finer grade cannot
be found in Iowa. The Wapsie valley is
followed straight down to the Mississippi
river, and we are told that the grade is
less than ten feet to the mile on any part
of the road We have heard much about
the Williams railroad have heard it
laugneO a. SncercO at ana rldIcuIed, but
TO us, after look over thirty miles Of the
proposed route, seeing the work already
done, the facilities they have for doing
work, and studying the faces of the men
, engaged in the enterprise, we believe and
our verdict is that in the near future will
he heard the whistle of the locomotive on
the G.. l. & n p r. r.
The gentlemen who have this enter
prise in hand are thorough business men,
} and know how to build railroad, and if
J it is such grade into Chicago as we arc
led to believe it IS. it will certainly be-
come in the near future the great freight
thoroughfare of the Northwest.
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O. 3. Johnson, the depot agent of the
Minnesota & Northwestern for Austin,