Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-05-07
THE DULUTH 8 DENVER.
An Important Lime icon to be Ruilt,
Which can be BreuGhtts Yankton-
"A Northwestern Extension Yank-
S%onysariI fVom

Which can be Br0ushtte YanktOn-
"a Northwestern Extension Yank
forward from fSs5a.
DULUTH m DBNYER
H. L. Corson, of Sioux Falls, {
director of the Sioux Falls and Wiimal
division of the Duluth & Denver roll
road, has just returned from Wilmar
and st. Paul, where he had a consulta.
ton with the officials OF the company
The Press and Dakotsian scribe hap.
pened to meet Mr. Corson when he was
returning from his mission and accom-.
panied him to Sioux Falls. His report
is that the Duluth s. Denver road is to
be extended into Dakota without much
delay and that in the course of q year or
two it will move on from Dakota to a
connection with the Union Pacific and
eventually reach Denver. 1t ls certain
that the road will be built, but it's route
Is moi yet determined definitely. Sioux
Falls ia making a strong effort to secure
the road and lts people are anxious for
Yankton to join hands in the effort and
together to make a pull for the better
ment of both towns. The Yanktoa
board of trade has been considering the
matter a couple OF days and lie ready to
60 in with Sioux Falls and secure the
road, if such a result is possible.
The Duluth & Denver is the most adj
vantsgeoug connection within reach of
this section. 1t will furnish a short cut
to the Lake shore and will give usAn avail
able market for all products and will
materially lessen the cost Of fuel and
lumber. Then it will give us direct con
nection with the great west. 1t will be
emphatically q farmers road, es it will
raise the price of wheat from five to
seven cents per bushel and prices on all
other products in like proportion, and
at the same time it will lessen the cost
of two OF u most important articles of
import-fuel and lumber. Az this road
will prove a certain p%enunIary benefit to
farmers, it ia expected that they wi ! be
willing to grant right of way without
much of any charge. A powerful cor
poration, n not now operating in this
section, is behind the project, with a n
abundance of means, and the road will
be built. 1t is time for Yanktcn to
move in the matter.
NoRTawEsTERN EXTENSION.
A Ponca paper of a late date gives the
following:
Tuesday evening a corps of @. st. p.
M. &O. engineers took up quarters at
the Boyd and yesterday they began
running q line up Deer creek over the
same route surveyed last winter. They
have instructions to locate fifteen miles
of road and await further orders.
Whether this means that the branch
will be built or not cannot be learned.
but it probably will result IN the build
ing of that much of the line at least,
with the possibility of an extension to
the Missouri at Yankton or Nio5rara.
The @. ST. p, Ma 0. is an important
division of the Chicago & Northwestern.
Some years ago it purchased the narrow
guage~ running from Covington to Ponca
and changed the guage to q standard.
The extension above noticed is to be an
extension of this old road from Ponca
up the Missouri river. as near to the
river SIS the line can well be run. An
extension of fifteen miles will bring the
road within about twenty-five miles OF
Yankton.