Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1892-03-31
TWIN CITIES TALK
The Pioneer Press Reviews the Situa.
ton of a New South Dakota
Railroad.
Rapid City, Pierre, Aberdeen, OakeS
and the Twin Cities are all
Interested.
Jack Whipple is Released for an AL
legged Killing-Weekly Local
Resume.

The st. Paul Pioneer Press of the cath
inst contained the following notice OF
what was originally wholly an enterprise
instituted and conducted by Pierre citi-
zcns, and which indicates, If anything.
that the twin cities have taken hold of the
matter finally with all their energies. The
prcsence OF General Manager Ward of the
Duluth, Pierre and Black Hills railway,
in St. Paul may account for the evidences
of awakening and lively interest from that
quarter:
There is road from Cakes, on the
Northern Pacific. via Aberdeen and Pierre
10 Rapid City in the Black Hills, South
Dakota. a syndicate composed chiefly OF
ST. Paul men have undertaken the con-
struclion of this road under an arrange
ment with the Northern Pacific to lease
and operate it when completed. For a
long time the people of Rapid City and
the Black Hills been seeking a connection
with ST. Panl. and they have been the
prime movers in the scheme which is now
approaching the wiShcdfor conSumma-
tion. The projected railroad consists pro-
viSionally of two divisions. The people
of Rapid City have undertaken to survey,
grade and bridge that division of the road
between Rapid City and Pierre, which is
known as the Rapid City, Missouri River
and ST. Paul railroad. They have organ
lied u company for that purpose and sub
Scrbed Sl5O.OOO to its stock. They have
surveyed the road to Fort Pierre. dis
lance of 100 miles, at a cost of $1,000 and
have graded twenty-five miles of roadbed
east from Rapid City to the Cheyenne riv-
cr. This is the hilly section of the rail-
road. the only one where heavy grades are
encountered All the rest of the line runs
through a level prairie country, where the
cost of grading will b. very small. IL
costs them nothing for right-ot-way or
land for intermediate stations, for tn" line
runs almost wholly through the recently
vacated Indian reservation, and the act of
congress under which this territory was
coded to the United States granted the
right -of-way for railroads aud also suiilc-
lent lands for townsitcS and stations at
the proper intervals. FinallysRapid City
has donated fifty one acres in the heart OF
the city for terminals. and Fort Pierre
twenty acres more: so that all the real eS-
tate needs of the road are amply provided
for. Considerable donations have been
received along the route. The grading
and bridging of this division between
Rapid City and Fort Pierre will soon be
completed. Similar arrangements have
been made for the completion of that divi-
sion of the road east of the Missouri. The
people of Pierre have undertaken TO grade
the section of rs miles between that city
and Aberdeen. while Aberdeen and other
cities on the line are expected to provide
for grading the remaining fifty miles be
tween that city and Oakes. This division
of the projected road from Pierre TO Oakc:
known as the Duluth, Pierre and Blacl
Hills, and a syndicate chiefly OF ST. Pau
men, has entered into a contract for IL
construction, on condition that the right
of.way and grading be provided for in ad
vance. OF this grade between Pierre ant
Aberdeen. ninety miles have already beer
completed and financial arrangement
have been made to complete the gradin!
of this section. The entire length of tn
line to be constructed is 343 miles, ant
when completed TO Aberdeen will brin:
Rapid City, via the Milwaukee railroad
within 5aS miles OF ST. Paul as against
distance of 547 miles from Omaha to Rapi
City,