The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1895-10-18

Inc ordnance is as lOliOWS:
ORDINANCE
Granting to the Chicago, st. Paul,
Minneapolis and Omaha Railway Com
pany, authority to change it's line of
railway through the city of Mankato,
and to reconstruct it's said railway
through said city, and granting per-
mission to said railway company to To-
cate and construct it's railway track
or tracks over and across the streets,
alleys, levee and public grounds Of
said city.
The common council of the city of
Mankato do ordain as follows:
Section l. The Chicago, st. Paul,
| Minneapolis and Omaha Railway Com
| hereby authorized to change it's line
of railway through said city, and re-
move the same, or so much thereof as
said railway company may elect, from
what is known as the Fourth street
route in said city, to or near the
| levee or river front north and west of
Front street in said city.
Sec. 2. Permission and authority
are hereby given and granted to said
| Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis and
Omaha Railway Company, its success.
sOrs and assigns, to locate it's railway,
and to construct and perpetually main
! tain it's embankmentS, road bed grade,
ties, track, or tracks, with suitable,
necessary and convenient side-tracks,
switches, spur-tracks and turn-Outs,
on, over or across such streets, alleys,
public squares, levee and public
grounds as may lie in the route of said
road from the north limits of said city
to the southerly and westerly limits
of said city, and upon grade or level
to be established therefor by the en-
gineers of said railway company, and
to perpetually hereafter operate the
same in the ordinary and usual man
ner, with steam or other engines, To-
comotives or motive power
Sec. 3 The main track or tracks of
said railway shall be constructed as
near as may be on the proposed line of
right-of-way Of said railway, as
shown by the external red lines upon
map or plat thereof, prepared by
said railway company, bearing date
August - 1895, entitled &C., St. p.
M. & o. Ry." Proposed change of
line through Mankato," herewith eX-
hibited, and filed in the Office of the
city recorder of said city, provided:
that for period or time and until
said railway cOmpa ny elects to recon-
struct itssaid line OF railway norther
ly from Main street, to the limits of
said city upon the laid proposed line
thereof, as shown by and upon said
map or plat, said rack or tracks of
said railway may he located and con-
structed within HE limits of said city,
upon the right-o- way of the WinOna
and ST. Peter raj road, or said Chica-
go, st. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha
railway cOmpal. may operate it's
trains within the limits of said city,
upon the tracks Il said WinOna and
ST. Peter railroad
The main line 81 said railway may
consist of two separate railway tracks,
and the right-of-"ay hereby granted
to said railway C mpany, upon which
to so construct it's main track, or
tracks, shall be oi the width of fifty
| feet upon the grade level or upper
surface of said raj way, when the same
is graded and ready for use. And
wherever there is or may be grade,
fill or embankment, said right-of-way
shall be of sufficient additional width
to properly support and include such
grade, fill or embankment.
Sec. 4. Said railway company, its
successors and assigns, may locate,
construct and perpetually maintain
within the limits Of said city of Man
kato, at suitable place or places, to
be selected by said railway company,
all necessary and convenient passen-
ger and freight depots, railway yards.
engine houses, round houses, turn ia
bles, water tanks, elevators, ware
houses, fuel houses, stock yards, ma