Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-02-20
THE DULUTH LINE.

Movements of a Railroad Party which
Proposes to Build to Sioux Falls
At rs Ii Same Organization with
Which YaRkton's Roar of Trade il
in Correspondence
The Press and Dakotaiau has given
appropriate attention to the projected
construction of q railroad to be known
in its entlrety as the Duluth, st. Cloud
u Denver. With the officials of this or
ganization the Yankton board of trade
is now in correspondence, the railroad
officials having written here to secure
information upon which to base the pre-
missed construction OF the line to Yank-
ton and beyond. Our board of trade has
furnished the company statistics rela-
tive to the resources of the region trib-
utary to Yankton and a reply is pend
ing
This road has been constructed from
Duluth to st. Cloud, a distance of one
hundred and forty miles, and twenty
miles this side in the direction of Will
mar. 70 st. Cloud it is composed of
two divisions, known as the st. p. M.
& NJ. and st. p. & d. The division
from Wilmar to Sioux Falls has been
incorporated under the name of the
Wilmar & Sioux Falls. This is as far as
any Incorporation act extends, the cor,
respondence with Yankton being pre-
liminary to futher decisive official action.
The several divisions Of the roRd, con-
structed and proposed, will give dis
tances as follows:
Duluth to st. -. 15o miles
st. Cloud to Witmar ....... .-,,...... 80 miles
Wilmar to Sioux Falls, via Pipestone,,1 las miles
Sioux Falls to Yankton, .............. TO miles
miles
On Thursday a delegation of Pipe
stone citizens, consisting of @. Q. Good
now, l.. 81. Moore, d. E. Street, Robt,
Scarf, e. d. Sanford, G. w. Gilmore, A.
Il. Ely, f. A. Black and A. D. Ferris ap-
peared at Sioux Falls, under authority
to act in behalf of the Wilmar & Sioux
Falls division OF the road. A public
meeting was called and the objects Of
the visit freely discussed. Mr..
Goodnow, of the visiting committee,
stated to the meeting that he had re-.
eelved articles of Incorporation for q
road to be called the Wilmar and Sioux
Falls railroad from j. M. Spicer, who is
president OF the road, which now run
from Duluth to st. Cloud; that the talk
of his colleagues and himself IN regard
to the building of the road had been
entirely with MIR. Spicer and that gen
tleman had informed them that there
were ample funds behindthe project tc
| build and equip the road in the best
manner possible. The proposed line OF
the road would u through Wilmar
Marshall and Pipestone, MIMI, through
to Sioux Falls, which he said, would be
the terminal point for the present. The
| distance from Wilmar to Pipe.
| stone was los miles and from
the latter point to Sioux Falls
| as miles. The visit of the committee
was entirely ia the interest of Pipestone
and Sioux Falls. 1t was promised thai
the road would be completed by next
| spring. The action taken by Sioux Falls
at this meeting was the selection OF b
| A. Sherman and Ell. T. Corson as direc
tors in the company which represents
the Wilmar and Sioux Falls division
| Further active work will follow,
This episode seems to settle the fact
that the railroad is to be
built and that it is not, al
some of our people have supposed,
purely paper scheme. 1t is already
bona tide railroad and it's extension ha!
behind it men who are in earnest in be
half of the project. These being The
facts, it is to Yankton's interest to give
hearty response to the advances of the
men who have already included Yank
ton in their calculations as an objective
point on the next division to be built
Their design is to cross the Missouri
river here and ultimately to mako theii
road a connecting link between thu
Colorado country and the lakes. It il
an enterprise we'll worth working up il
our own interest.
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