The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-11-16

posed line, which the attorney of
right of ways, stated would be built
as sure as fate. In the first place a
railroad is being built from Dennison,
Iowa, directly north from the line of
Range 80. Heretofore the constructor
of this line has been in doubt, but it -
now officially stated that it is the
Northwestern system, and the object
is not only to give this section of Min
nesota short line but also to tap the
Iowa coal fields for country through
which the proposed road will pass, and
which is sadly in need of cheaper fuel.
For long time the Northwestern
has wanted to do something in line
with these propositions, but it has
been obliged to proceed slowly and
cautiously to prevent similar action
by rival roads, and this not only car
ries out their wishes, but it also cuts
off all territory of the Minneapolis &
St. Louis, south of New Ulm. provid-
ing that road intends to proceed to
Omaha, which originally was the OBJ
jective point.
Attorney Barlow stated that the
road would be pushed as rapidly as
possible, and that one of the places it
would touch in it's run for the north,
was Butterfeld, in Watonwan county,
and from that point it will practically
proceed to the northwest, providing it
strikes Sanborn, which it does not en-
tirely agree to do. A GAZETTE repre-
sentative has received assurances that
the road will never stop at Sanborn,
or at any point of the Winona & st.
Peter railroad running along the south
side of this county, or the northwest
corner of Brown, but that on the con-
trary, it will proceed north to some
objective point like Fargo or Moor
head, with the view of tapping the
two great transcontinental lines that
touch those two towns, and thus ex-
change business with them for points
in Iowa and the west. The North
western system now has the money
to carry out an enterprise of this kind
if it chose, and our informant tells us
that there is big hen on. North
western officials have recently been in
vesting in land west of here, and only
last week one of the leading officials
quietly stepped from the train few
miles east of Redwood Falls, and
commenced negotiating for tract of
land there, whether for speculation on
the ground of future railroad building,
or whether for a junction with the
Redwood branch remains to be seen.
In case the line joins the Winona &
St. Peter at Sanborn, and that place is
made the principal place of business
of the company, Sanborn is destined
to become a town of no small import,
and we congratulate the citizens of
that place on their prospects.
The Minneapolis Journal of Mon
day, in commenting upon Redwood
Falls telegram regarding the corporate
articles, had the following:
The proposed line will, to some ex-
tent, cut into the Minneapolis & st.
st. Louis territory as suggested, but
the more obvious purpose of the North
western is to secure more direct out
let toward the south for the business
which it accumulates on it's two main
South Dakota lines, which separate at
Tracy, about twenty-five miles east of
Sanborn, and thence diverge, covering
a large part of the State. As it now
is, traffic from these lines, to get south
into Iowa, must take q roundabout
course through New Ulm, St. Peter,
Mankato and Lake Crystal, where q
junction is made with the Iowa line
running through Blue Earth City.
The new line would save, perhaps,
fifty miles haul. The proposition is
quite in keeping with the policy of
the Northwestern to build lines from
the Dakotas southeast, rather than
northeast toward Minneapolis.
Will R. Speck, editor of the Warren
County Gazette, Richardville, KY,
writes the DR.. ]. 81. Mclean Medicine
Co. as follows: "Gentlemen-My
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