The Sauk Centre herald. (Sauk Centre, Stearns County, Minn.) 1886-current, 1895-08-22
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work sn eAs New Division ana
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Work o. e1ae New Division and
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The following special correspondence
to the Journal ress will be read with in.
'terest. and Sank Centre extends it's con-
era tulations to Melrose in its brilliant
prospects. May they be fully realized:
"The site for the new yards here is the
finest natural railroad yard have ever
seem" So spake ]. ]. Brennan, roadmas-
ter of the St. Paul & Fergus Falls div
Isl on of the Great Northern, to the Jour-
nal-Press correspondent. And to the
eye OF one not of the "profesh" it would
look as though the good natured road
master had never spoken more truthinlly,
A dozen RODS above the depot here
the track curves trifie towards the
north and thea runs straight as the pro-
verbal crow flies toward the Sank River
and the setting sun. The 'lead," as the
railroad men call it, is over two miles i'll
length, and the Sank River forms q nor
rhern and eastern boundary for the new
Yards. There bluff protects It from the
w inds on the east and north. The old
county road which followed the east
side of the railroad has been vacated and
there is nothing to ctsuult the move
ment of trains-or theil standing still
in the yards tor the entire distance.
The new yards commence g short dis
tance west OF the depot and Nill extend
almost to the point vllef4 tht main line
The distance IRON tbe traek 70 the river
at the farthest point IS perhaps q trifle
over halt mile and this natural pocket
at the present rate at which track-laying
is progressing, will soon be filed with a
labyrinth OF railway tracks, switches, et..
And all is as level as flour. An old
field of stubble, is now covered with ties
and with long piles of gravel and a
bright green corn field further west will
soon be entered, trampled under foot,
and within a week steel rails will be laio
and the putting locomotives will disturb
the whiskers of that corn. The surface
of the ground is so fiat that the ties are
laid on the ground, the rails spiked to
them and then the train is run on them
and the gravel put in and the line
brought up to a common level.
Engineer w. A. Truesdel, Of St. Paul
IS in charge of the work oflaYing out
the new yard and II isssstia there will be
to exceed 20 tracks with a mileage o
ove., ten miles in the yards. Michae
Hanley, one OF the Oldest and best III
formed men III the railroad construction
work, is superin tendent oftfe canstruc
ton under Roadmaster Brennan, ane
his timekeeper is Frank Waldorf, village
| recorder of Melrose. But one work trair
is now being used at Melrcse.
Saturday ground was broken for thu
construction of the new POSTAL solit
brick roundhouse. Tic. contractors arr
/ 4 : y
Carlisle & Son Of NTihpeA polls, aud thi
building is to be located about mil
west of the depot and almost in the cen
ter of the yards.
There has been nothing said here al
yet regarding new Offices for the divis
ional headquarters, and there has no
been any agitation OF new depot
which is very badly needed. The plan
| for the new syndicate hotel, which is tt
be erected on the corner south of tn
bank al Melrose, are now being mad
by Architect Hussey Of St. Cloud, ant
the sketch promises a hotel to cost il
the neighborhood OF $15, 900. 1t is pro
posed to heat the building from tn
steam plant in Hoescllen's mill, TIL
new hotel is very badly needed.
The question: now a gitating the proper
ty holders of Melrose is, what does al
this mean? One thing is certain. Itsig
nifes that this village is to be made
division point of the Great Northern
! And it undoubtedly means that train
will be run from breckenridge to Melrose
GAINESVILLE to Melrose, St. Paul to Mel
rose and Sandstone to Melrose. All in
dications are tn the effect that this is tn
general scheme by which traffic will b.
managed or the eastern end of the sys
tenn hereafter. But how soon? Here
tn rub. Grain and stock are commenc
| ing to move freely on the system, ant
inside of two weeks at the furthest. ther,
will be an unprecedented rush" on tn
Great Northern. Nothing can be dom
toward a removal during this bus1
season, and those who know say thai
the yards and other improvements her
will not be completed until late in thu
fall.