St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-02-19
A Broad Guage Motor Line to Anoka to be
Built by Minneapolis Oapi-
talists.
East Siders Waking up to General I'm
provement Under the Exposition
Site Stimulus.
workfngmen in Consultation--News
From the Courts--To-nig
Wrestling Match.
Dofngs of the Water Board--Pol1u-
clans Still Actfve--Gen. WASH
burns Sinch.
NEW RAILROAD.
Minneapolis Capitalists 10 Buiio "
Broad Guage Motor to Anoka'

Broad Guage Motor 10 ADOka'
A railroad article, under the caption
pleaded for Duluth appearing IN yesDer-
DAYS GLOBE, attracted deal OF attention
in both railroad and business centers. Re-
garding the railway companies which nave
undertaken the scheme, the article was III
error. 1t is not the Minneapolis & st.
Iouis and the Northern Pacific railway
companies, but an entirely new organiZa-
Z tion composed of the leading capitalist Of
y Minneapolis.
A ChampIin correspondent Of the Anoka
Union came near guessing the true status
of the affair in the following:
There will be built all along the line pal
etial residences or summer resorts. where
people in the city can, with little trouble,
take their families out of town for pure air
and water They have already secured three
fourths of the right of way PURCHASE and
donrtion, and if there is any doubts about
its being motor line. i will say that the con-
tracts they take from the farmers whose land
the road crosses specify that the corporatiod
when formed shall run motor line OF cars
between the two points, stopping TO take on
passengers the same as other motors or the
contract is null and void.
The protectors are Messrs. Charles NJ.
Loring, Eugene NJ. Wilson, james W..
Lawrence, w. S. King John Osborne,
George A. Bracket. George Merchant, Ill.
+. Brown and r. w. Jordan. Owing TO
the absence of several of the farm owners,
some of the lands which are TO be acquired
have not yet been transferred, and the gem
tlemen named are now only awaiting the
return of those farmers to perfect title,
not only to right OF way. but 10 vast
tract of territory which will at once be
plated and laid out in series OF SUBURBAN
~ .sat,ff tnnt mn n
minus of the new road will be at Cham
pin, which is separated from the city OF
Anoka by a bridged river, and which is con-
nected by a street car line. Probably AnOka
and Minneapolis will be the terminal points
then. The scheme contemplateS broad
guage motor line, low transportation rates.
and a series of pretty manufacturing villages
at convenient distances all along the line.
However, not all will be manufacturing
villages for it is proposed to select num-
Der of the most desirable and most pictur-
es0ue points as suburban residence villages.
Others will be built up expressly for labor
ing men and mechanics, who can lind en-
ployment in the manufacturers along the
road and also in the mills OF Minneapolis.
The transportation rates Will be made as
low as possible to make that end practca-
Bile. The road will be broad guage in order
to accommodate freight cars from all the
various roads leading into Minneapolis, so
that the wares and products of the manu-
factories to be erected may be shipped with
no inconvenience.
All in all it is a colossal project, and has
so far advanced that there can now be no
doubt as to its ultimate cOnsum-
nation. 1t must prove a blessing
to laboring men and mechanics, because
it will afford cheap rent and comfortable
homes where their families will be re-
moved from the unhealthy conditions which
are invariably thrown around the classes
whose limited means will not admit of the
more choice residence portions of the city.
The road will be built, without doubt. the
coming summer.