Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-03-08
1aily grrss aud 9HAsAaias
cosFLICTlNG TESTIMONY.
About h Hntentions of Railroads to
Buitd Ont of sioux Falls During the
Coming Sum mer.
A DEAD HALT.

Sioux Falls Press; As spring APP
proaches the opinion gains ground
among tie citizens that neither the
Burlington, CeHtf1l u Manitoba that
nov have their. terminuses here. will
build ont this year. Last Tell it was al
most q certainty thal when spring OPEN
ed np there aouid ne O scramble hmoEg
all OF them 10 see which would get ont
OF the 90 lormte ilmits FIRST and tass
possesion VI new tcsfltury Since that
time there has been many thipgs 10 dts
courage fnrtber extensIons at present,
particularly to the Oentsalaud Bntllng-
ton. The. have been engaged III q
freight war for sometime, aud present
Indications are it will be prolonged into
the summer months. Another thing
botheiing them is the Iowa legislature
that is trying to legislata them into a
%two-oent passenger rate. It is possible
they may Jet have to face an enRiLelr's
strike. and with other little backssts
that are always met with the outlook is
gloomy.
These ronds are not going to stay here
forever, q snotner year will be time
enough for them to cover the territory in
the northwest.
President Hill OF the Manitoba az
much as said he wouldn't go beyond this
city this season. Tho reason fog this
may be explained by the fact that be ia
gong to make his line running through
here q great diagonal one, and when he
does build will probably do as hs did up
north LAST Summer, build several hun.
dred miles at once The roads will keep
hara aCH -hank d.. sIa-1a-y - =
neighbors get them, ii ayoar hence, they
ought to be inst as acceptable and pro.
badly Will be-. The roads will have
plenty OF business here, and it il safe "a
say that the five distinct lines Will ex-
pend o half million dollars In improve
ments in this CITY alone, which will be
anite q respectable addition to sioux
Falls boom that is booked for 1888.
CONTRACTS ALREADY LET.
sioux Falls Argus Leader: People
who want to rec Sioux Fails boom ought
to patronizs tae Associated Press report
"oorroborstes' upon Main II
is o boomer and NO mistake. Yesterday
morning il made the statement in its
columns that any town stood q chance
OF securing John jacob Astor's gift OF
vi, 200 for q cathedral building. This,
II ought TO have known has no fouuda-
ton for it. 1t don't believe itself that
Sioux Falls is in any danger OF losing this
cathedral. This morning this aesthetic
illnminator copies q lobg article from g
paper published mp at ST. Paul and
comments thereon with headlines to
match to the feet that there will be nc
railroad build, ng out of Sioux Falls this
year, but that Yankton is sure TO get the
Illinois Central; Aberdeen will secure
several extensions; Pierre, Bismarck
etc.i ditto. This is encouraging "a
Sioux Falls people especially when We
take into consideration chat il was onls
. short time ago that this monopolistic
sheet, soberly stated that the public
must wait until it had, made it's an
nouncements about railroad building
for il elnne he'd saeass 81 sscrfasion
The oracle has at last spoken. There
shall be no railroad extensions out Of
Sioux Falls this year. Well that knocks
the boom In the head, don't it'll This II
face OF the fact that lending contractors
ar0 here ready TO work on she Illinois
Central and Manitoba extensions, il
face OF the fact that contracts have
already been let on the Manitoba extern
sion between here and Yankton. Oh
such informationi What so URGES of in-
formation some papers do havel What
conclusions they do arrive all There
are newspapers and there are news
papers.
LINE PROVIDED FOR.
Duluth, March GA mortgage was fl-
edin the Office OF the register OF deeds to.
day from the eastern Minnesota railway
company in favor OF the Central Trns1