Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-04-27
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Railroad Talk and Rumors of various
Extensions OF Interest to this Sec

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Railroad Talk and Rumors of various
Extensions OF Interest to this Sec
ton.
There has been much excitement
among our Sioux City neighbors over
railroad prospects and hope runs high
araone Yankton's down the river neigh.
bors. They have reached the conclu-
sion that something is sure 20 happen.
The journal says the feverish pulse of
the railroad excitement has Gained
down wonderfully during the past few
days, and it has come to be an accepted
fact that Sioux City is to be connected
Wlth the outside world in q short time
by three more great through lines OF
railroad. The news of active work on
the Mapleton branch of the Northwest
srn is received with gladness, and Is all
the more welcome because it is reliable.
Continuing, the Journal remarks:
with the three new roads, the question
of a bridge across the Missouri will be
quickly solved, and Sioux City will take
her place among the foremost of the
cities of the vest"
Graders are at work in Sioux City on
the Sioux City & Des Moines and the
Milwaukee is making the dirt fly farther
east on the Defiance line. The Defiance
work is onein which this section of Da-
kota has q lively interest. The Sioux
Falls Press, commenting 0 N the situa-
tion, says:
1t is not easy OF this distance to tell
whether the Milwaukee people really
mean TO build the Defiance line, OF
whether the work now being done is
simply to ward off the Sioux City &
Des Moincs which is Receiving generous
aidatoIAg G1siins.sN.%
There is another stir in railroad circles
which possesses o local interest. The
Illinois Central seems to be in the1ield
as q building competitor of other west
ern lines. The Dubuque Telegraph says:
By a gentleman who is the next friend
of a nan in the confidence of the Illinois
Central, the Telegraph is informed that
the Central is at Stickney's back and
that it will build q line from Chicago
to Dakota, which will embrace the
Dubuque and Northwestern and the
line in Chicago now being
surveyed by Mr.. Stickney. The
gentleman also says that the Cen
trail anticipates receiving concession,
which will enable it to enew advantage
ously it's lease of it's Iowa division, aud
that it will after the building of Its
Dakota line, continue to operate its
present line from Sioux City to Free
port, running thence to Chicago over
the line now being surveyed by MIR
Stickney.
Ii has long been a fayorite theory
that if the Illinois Central ever entered
the field as o builder it would branch
westward from lie Mars into Dakota
There have recently been reports oil
Illinois Central surveyors at work be.
tween Le Mars and Yankton.
From Columbia, Brown county, comes
information relative to the northwsrd
extension OF the Jim river line of the
Northwestern. The contractors began
grading to-day two miles from Colum
bic and will proceed to grade the ex'
tension of the road until they gsach thu
forty-sizth parallel, about forty mile
from Columbia, in tosnship 129, rang,
SO. Dickey county. Mir. Gardner, sup
c.intenGent Of construction. says worl
viii be advanced as rapidly as possible
in order to make ready for rolling STOCK
about September lst. s.
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Lumber! Lumber:
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10000 feet siding;
10000 feet dimensions;
10000 feet let and I'd common;
10000 feet ! 10, Ia, IL and in. finish
5000 feet oak lumber;
5000 feet ceiling;
100000 shingles.
Screen doors and windows.
Orders promptly attended TO.
Telephone No. 43.
ST. OROIX LUMBER co.
J. Ell. BEAVER, Manager,
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