Courier Democrat. (Langdon, N.D.) 1891-1920, 1895-05-02
Mass Railroad Meeting

The mass meeting of those interest
ed in the building Of the Duluth and
North Dakota railroad, held at Dray-
ton on Wednesday Of last week was
largely attended by delegates residing
in Walsh, Pembina and Cavalier
counties, besides a large delegation
from the Minnesota side of the Red.
The meeting has been the means of
infusing new life and energy into the
work and gave D. w. Hines, the pro-
moter, an opportunity to receive the
unanimous assurance from his CO.
workers of their confidence in his ulti-
mate success. The Drayton Echo de-
votes nearly four columns to an ac-
count of the doings of the meeting and
the following remarks made by dele
gates from Cavalier county are taken
from that paper:
j. B. Beauchamp Of Olga.-"We will
grade the road over the mountain. We
are:anxious to do so. Survey the road
and give us a chance"
%. McKechnie Of Langdon.-'Our
people are greatly interested in the
proposed road. Ibelieve all our peo-
pie in the northern part of Cavalier
county will support this road, and they
will turn out andgrade and contribute
literally. They are perfectly satisfied
thatfhe road ISL aiming
Mr.. Adams of, Cavalier county.-'I
am not a public speaker. Mr.. Hines
is my son-in-law. I laughed at him
when he asked me about building the
road. But it now appears that the
road is sure to go on. came 80 miles
to attend this meeting, We have Is
miles to haul our grain, and we have
neighbors still 20 miles farther west.
I have known these men to start out
at 8 o CLOCK in the morning with load
of grain and not reach Langdon until
latesat night, and, doing little trad
ing next morning, it took them all the
next day to get back home with their
empty sleighs. There is no trouble to
get out the ties-I was foreman of the
tie camp at Red Lake last winter, only
about 40 miles from Thief River. We
can get 100 or 200 men to 60 there and
work. I think if we can get confidence
and build the road we can bring down
the rates one-half."
Mr.. Mclean of McLean.-"We have
always figured that the farmers build
the roads anyway. If we've got to
build the roads we might as we'll own
them. We want this road, and want
it badly. We are now so far away
from elevators that it takes us more
time to haul our wheat to market than
it does to raise and thresh it.-Last
year, in our township alone, 100000 in
6 cent wheat bonuses was subscribed
in aid of this road, but the pledges
made then have expired. We are not
poor out there; we can easily do that
over again for this road. We have the
grainSto give. There is no difficulty in
the way of building the road"
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Dakota. 1898
SD. Bostwick, one of Bathgate' 8
we'll known merchants, was up here
last week talking with prospective
buyers for his quarter section of land
In this township.