Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1885-07-08
RAILROAD NEWS.

| RAILROAD NEWS. -
-, The surface1s will reach the end of the
line by Friday or Saturday of this week.
Two gravel trains are new at work on
the line ballasting the road. A third train
will be put on in few. days.
Geo. Nesbitt, AN old Austin boy, was
in town Monday. He has the contract for
! the hard wood finishing for all the de-
potts.
The NJ. & NV. Varco is about 2 miles
south of the old Varco, ORG miles from
Austin, at which point a siding has al
ready been put in.
Monday the track-laying crew were
discharged here, and on Tuesday morn
ing Contractor Grant paid them of, dis
tributing about 5000 among them.
The telegraph poles along the line Of
the new road will be all up this week, and
the wire will be stretched into Austin to-
night. and into Mona by Friday night
Philip Crowley, formerly roadmaster
of the Tioga road of New York when
Mr.. DuPuy was its general superinten-
dent, was on Monday appointed roadmas-
ter of this road.
MIR. Morris says so far feur depots have
been built-at Rich Valley, Randolph,
Kenyon and Concord. The building of
the depot at Dodge Center will be de-
layed until the Austin depot is completed.
A supply train is being run every day.
on regular time, between Randolph (Cas-
cade) and Austin. It leaves Randolph at
6:25 a. M, and arrives in Austin at 10 m
Departing, it leaves Austin at p. M, ar
irving at Randolph att.
BY invitation of Conductor Simpkins,
our genial County Attorney J. NJ. Green
man and ourself took ride on his train
from Austin to Red Rock and return
Tuesday morning. We enjoyed the trip
very much. 1t was cur first ride over the
MINI. s. NV
There were two errors in the table of
passenger fares as published by us last
week. Austin rate is So. 80 instead of So,
and Dodge Centre So 80 instead of So. go.
The Austin rate is Is cents less than via
the Milwaukee road because the distance
is 3 miles shorter.
The distances from St. Paul to Chicago
via the Minnesota g. NV. route are as
follows Minnesota s. NV, St. Paul to
Mona, 40 miles; Illinois Central, Mona,
Iowa, to Forreston, ILL.,, 254; c., B. g. O.,
Forreston to Chicago, 100; total 1884, This
route is longer than by the Milwaukee s.
St. Paul and Omaha lines, but is SO miles
shorter than the Albert Lea route.
Track-laylng St. Paulward commenced
April 9TH. at Cascade. May 18th, track
laying commenced Austinward from Cas-
cade. Austin was reached June 9th, IS
miles from Cascade. Lyle, Sunday, July
9Th. Total mileage from West St. Paul
to Lyle, including side-tracks, lis miles.
The tracklayers reached Lyle Sunday
afternoon about 8 o'clock. The connec-
ton with the track to Mona was not
made, but will be on Thursday; neither
was side-track put in. The construc-
ton train returned TO Austin early Mon
day morning. and Superintendent Benson
had another sidetrack, 1900 feet long,
laid at the station inside of three hours.
This gives us two long sidings. and one
or two more are soon to be put in.
Work upon freight depot was COM
menced Monday m orning. 1t is to be a
large building, 40x90, and located on
block 3, Bolcom's addition, the second
block south of the passenger station. The
north end of the building will be on the
north line of the block, and run south 80
| feet on the east side of the block. The
freight house will have truss roof, and
consume in its building about &c, 900 feet
of lumber. L. F. Gowdy is the contrac-
| tor.
The distance of the new route from
Chicago to St. Paul via Dubuque, Ceder
Falls, and the Mona branch is 483 miles.
| From Ceder Falls Junction to Mona is
70 miles, and from there to St. Paul the
distance is 115 miles. This large addi-
ton of road acquired by the Central will,
no doubt result in the establishment of
| new division headquarters somewhere in
| Minnesota, as the territory will now be
too wide for one division superintendent
to look after. 1t is. of course, as vet
unknown to anybody outside of the Cen
| ira! officials where these headquarters will
be located, but there can be no question
that it is the intention of the Central
Company to make such arrangements
Manchester paper.
Work has been commenced on the new
passenger depot. W. II. Morton, the
contractor, says it will be the finest pus-
senger house on the line, and the only
one exclusively for passengers. 1t will
be 22x6O, with very pleasant and con-
venicnt office room for the agent and op-
orator, a baggage room 144x22, ladies,
waiting room 1892, and gents room 20
x22. 1t is not to be red barn, but y
good-looking building with some archi-
tectural beauty about it. Along the front
of the depot platform, 12x20O, is to be
erected, and in the rear one 8x76 On &C.
count of some complaint by the city off,
Gals as to the blocking of Bridge street,
the R. r. officials changed the location of
the passenger station to point so feet
south of where it was first located, in
block Is. The north end of the station
will now be 14O feet south of the south
line of Bridge street, in block Is.
Last Saturday afternoon, about 3
O'Clock, Supt DuPuy, Freight and Pas.
senger Agent Littell. Gov. VIM. r. Mar
shall and the Chief Engineer pulled into
Austin on a special train from St. Paul,
their first ride to Austin over the new
road. They were much pleased with the
condition of the track. After short de-
lay here they went on south until they
caught up with the track-laYers about 2
miles this side Of Lyle. They then
returned to Austin and took sup
per at the Fleck House. Mr.. Littell
said he thought the citizens of Austin
would be we'll pleased with the improve