Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1888-12-06
THE RAILROADS.
Clippings from Various Sources Showing
What Is Being Done.

Clippings from Various Sources Showing
What Is Being Done.
Unusual activity at this season of the
year in railway circles gives much conf.
dence in the belief that moro than one
new line will peaetrate the Hills during
the coming year, and sturgis is perfect
ly content to take chances in corraling
some one of the many roads pointing in
this direction. From exchanges we
quote:
TIE MANDAN LINE
The survey for the Mandan & Black
Hills railway has been completed and a
report from parties in the east in the
interests of the road gives assurance
that the work on this line will be pushed
in the spring. 1t is estimated that the
road will cost about 100000 mile and
that it will be one of the best paying
lines in the territory. Some of the most
prominent men in the country are inter
ested and it is rumored that when con-
structed it will become part of the
$500" system which is already graded
to this point. .-Mandan Pioneer.
DEADwooD GOT AN EYE ON US.
The incorporation of the following
railway company by Deadwood business
men, as reported from Bismarck, may
have some significance, as given by the
Rapid City Journal:
Deadwood, Sturgis and Chamberlain
Railroad company, of Deadwood, Dako-
ta. Object: Constructing, maintaining
and operating railroad from Deadwood,
Lawrence county, Dakota territory, to
Sturgis, in said county and territory.
Directors: J. X. P. Miller, A. w. Coe, J.
M. Gilman, l.. W. Gilman, Edwin Van
Cise, all of Deadwood, Dakota. Capital
stock, $25o,000. Incorporated Novem-
ber 20.
THE B. & NJ. ROAD.
Following is from the Nebraska State
Journal:
Vice President Perkins of the Bur-
lington lines, returned yesterday from
three weeks vacation spent in hunting
down in western Kansas. Mr.. Perkins
says that the directors have consented to
make tentative move in the direction of
extending the Alliance branch toward
the coal mines in the Black Hills this
winter and have let contract for winter
construction to the amount of 100000.
The work can be done at saving during
the winter.
But by the terms of the contract the
work can be stopped at any time on ten
days notice. The directors have reluc-
family consented to the extension on ac-
count of the threatened reduction oflocal
rates by the board of transportation in
this state, which would, if adopted, pre-
clude all further railroad building in this
section, as it would make local lines
wholly Improbable. Hence the proviso
for stopping the work on ten days
notice.
The extension is for the purpose of
opening up the coal beds of Wyoming.
Coal can be hauled from these lines on
a continuous down grade and furnished
at rate that will materially lessen the
price of fuel to Nebraska consumers.
Mr.. Perkins says that there is no doubt
if the rates are left as established by the
agreement of last spring that the line
will be pushed to completion, but that
if the rates are cut again the directors
will refuse to permit it to proceed. It
is pure matter of business, and as a
matter of business the Burlington road
cannot afford to make extensions with
the proposed cut in local rates. The
cost of the line from Alliance to the
Black Hills will be about three and a
half millions