New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1890-09-10
The Proposed Railroad.

We are in receipt of the prospectus
of the St. Paul, New Ulm and South
western Railway which has just been
issued. It is small phamplet contain
ing general inform alton in regard to
the survey of the road, of the traffic
that it will naturally enjoy, and of the
nature and lay of the country to be
traversed. The latter is embodied in
a report from the chief engineer, who
made the survey, and contains concise
write-up of the extensive resources of
the various towns through which the
road will pass. OF New Ulm it says:
New Ulm is a beautiful city of some
1000 inhabitants, but with the hum,
hustle and business Of a city three times
the size, owing to the large milling in
terests, the enterprise of its citizens
and the unparalleled agricultural area
of which it is the hub. Here are beds
of clay, as fine as mother earth can
produce, for the manufacture of bricks
second to none, for thing Of first quail
ity and finest pottery ware. These in
dustries are all being started up in a
small way, and it only requires capital
and another line of railway to St. Paul
and Minneapolis, AID this city is as
sured of a population Of fifty or seven
ty-fve thousand with paying employ
ment for every inhabitant. The open
ing of this route would bring New Ulm
at least Is miles nearer to the Twin
Cities than by the present route via
Kasota, and in consequence of the ia.
cility in reaching them, trade and trav-
ell will receive, new and healthy impe-
tus and give encouragement to new en-
terprises of all kinds for which great
inducements are held OUT OF the
traffic of the road in general the pros
.pectus has the following: 'sThe line
forms a connecting link between the
Northern Pacific, Great Northern, the
$500 Line, Duluth Roads and North
Wisconsin Systems, centering at St.
Paul, and the Union Pacific and Bur-
lington systems with their Southwestern
connections at Council Bluffs and Oma-
ha. 1t will transport lumber from
Northern Minnesota and Wisconsin to
the prairie regions of Southwestern
Minnesota, Iowa and Nebraska, and
bring back coal, wheat, flax, corn and
other farm products of those sections
for the Minneapolis mills or for export
to Duluth. With such cities as St.
Paul. Minneapolis, Chaska, Carver,
Mankato, st. Peter, New Ulm, Win
dom, Sioux City, Council Bluffs and
Omaha on the line and with about fifty
other local stations, all in thickly
settled country, the traffic cannot help
but be immense, and the road will
certainly pay from the first day of its
operation It then goes on to state
that the line from Hopkins to New Ulm
is expected to be finished by December
51st. 1891, and to Omaha by the end of
1892. A branch from a point in sibley
county is also to be built so as to con-
meet with Mankato and st. Peter.
1t is no longer ''up with the times
for a young man 20 take his best girl
out riding with team of horses, espe-
cially if they are not going anywhere.
8 yoke of oxen is substituted for the
shorses but the style of the carriage does
not change. The oxen are driven with
out reins and consequently the young
man has two hands with which to
ssamuse'' his lady. The craze has al
ready struck Pipestone, Judging from
the turnout which went down Olive
street Tuesday evening, and will no
doubt fast become popular. We pre-
dict the day is not far distant when
all our livery stables will be compelled
to keep at least one yoke of oxen.
Pipestone Star.
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