The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1895-08-09
AFTER THE OMAHA
Charles Mix County People Have Waited
in Vain For Years For the EXteD-
sion Of the Omaha Road,
They Now Make Proposition to Have
the Railroad Built to Wheeler on
the Missouri River.
RESORT FOR SUMMER
An Effort Being Made to Purchase Greene'S
Grove and Then Convert it Into a
Genuine Summer Resort.
RESORT FOR SUMMER
RECEIVING NEW LIFE.

| CHARLES Mix County People Taking Stems
| Toward the Omaha Extension
Eight years ago the Omaha road ex-
tended its branch line from Salem to
Mitchell, for which this town expended
in the neighborhood of s35, ,OOO and
about every year since then there has
been an organized effort on the part of
the people at both ends of the line to
get the road extended to Wheeler on
the Missouri river, with the same re-
suit that the end of the road still re-
mains at MITCHELL Charles Mix county
people have been waiting patiently for
the road to be extended into that fertile
country and believing that a substant-
ial cooperation would assist them in
obtaining the extension they have held
a meeting and are ready to go before
the Omaha company with proposition
| that those officials cannot afford to re-
| fuse. A mass meeting was held at
held at Edgerton last Tuesday to
start the project which was attended by
farmers and business men, The method
of assisting the Omaha people in con-
structing the road is embodied in the
following petition which will be circu-
lated through Charles Mix county:
Whereas, 1t is proposed that if the
2ltlzens OF Charles Mix county, South
Dakota, Will construct the road bed and
secure the right Of way for a railway on
the route proposed to run from Mitchell
Dawson county, to Wheeler in Charles
MIN county, then and in that event a
railroad will be equipped and put in
operation.
Therefore, the undersigned, each for
himself, does subscribe, donate and
agree to give the number of days work
| or the amount Of money set opposite
his name, in the construction and grad
ing OF such proposed railroad The
said work to be with man and team on
the roadbed in Charles Mix county,
and to be given or furnished, on or be-
| fore December 1st 1895. 1t is agreed
| that this donation is on the condition
| that said road be graded and completed
before December l, 1895, and on the
further condition that the company or
corporation to which the said right of
way and road bed shall be given, shall
first guarantee to fully iron and equip
the same and put in operation thereon
a railroad within six months from the
| lst day OF December, 1895.
Committees were appointed to cir
culate this petition in every township
| in the county and it is conceded that
there will be no difficulty in securing
sufficient aid to construct the roadbed.
Pertaining to this subject w. Fl. Burt
of Wheeler writes d. A. Mizener
letter, a portion of which is published:
DEAR SIR:-The people of this county
have finally walked up to the fact that
ii they get railroad they must make
| united and determined effort for it, and
| they will do it. The time is now ripe
| for the eXtention of the Omaha road
or, rather. the people are ripe for the ex-
| tension. | enclose part of the minutes of
the meeting held in Edgerton Tuesday
Ihe meeting was composed of the re-
preventative men from all parts of the
county and they now mean business
and from what can learn of the feel
| ing throughout the county l do not
| hesitate to say a sufficient amount of
work will be subscribed to grade the
road to the Douglas county line. From
that point Mr.. LIE Coco of Harrison
will carry it north to intersect with the
work done by Dawson county. The
proposition we propose to make the
Omaha people is to give them the
right of way and do the grading
through our county and this must be
taken up from the point where we
leave off and carried on to Mitchell.
| am going to depend on you to do all
you can to make this thing CO. Our
township committees report in Edger-
ton at p. IN. a week from next Satur-
day, Aug. 10th. Can you come down
and bring others with you interested in
the enterprise. Yours Truly,
VIII. BURT.
AS railroad center Mitchell enjoys
distinction equal to, and in several
instances, superior to any town in the
state and with the extension of the
Omaha to the river it would give the
town more prestige as wholesale
point, which is one line that could be
made to pay. Going down into rich
country like Charles Mix county it
could not help being a great advantage
to the Omaha road, in that it could in
crease Its train service and make
something out of what is now practi-