The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1898-11-23
RAILROAD TALK.
Surveyors Buslly Engaged In and
Around SanbOrn.

One can hear almost anything in
the line of railroad rumor on the
south side of Redwood county, and the
fact that q corps Of surveyors, under
tue direction of the principal assistant
engineer of the Chicago & North
western railroad, is running lines of
surveys in and south of Sanborr,
only tends to increase the rumors and
sincerity of every statement made.
The surveyors we're at work in San
born last Saturday afternoon. At that
time they we're running line along
the Northwestern track, in the eastern
portion of the town, as if preparing to
establish road for cutting in to the
Northwestern track, with the view of
effecting the proper junction. From
that line they we're working south to-
ward the Cottonwood river. Sanborn
citizens are jubilant every day.
A prominent official of the North
western making the run of the line
recently stated that he believed the
whole proceeding was big bluff, and
gave it as his opinion that the Mime
sofa & Iowa railroad would never be
built-particularly on the line of sur
vey now being run. Still another
official is authority for the statement
that before the line was definitely
settled he believed that the new COM
pany would change it's course to run
north from Dennison, Iowa, to Sleepy
Eye, then to Redwood Falls, and
thence northwest to Fargo, where it
would effect a juncture with the North
ern Pacific and practically make the
Northwestern through line from Chi
cago to the Pacific coast. He added
that he had good authority for the
statement that the company would
build 700 miles of railroad next year,
and that the Dennison line would ah
sorb the major portion of the proposed
extension. The New Ulm News of
last week has the following, which
must be considered semi-offcial:
"H. c. Garvin, General Agent of the
c. &N. w. railroad, with headquarters
in Winona, is authority for the state
msnt that the railroad company is now
making a survey from Sanborn to the
Omaha railroad, and this branch road
will be built in the spring so as to
make shortcut connection between
the G. & N. w. and the Omaha, so that
passengers from Omaha and this side
can connect with the first named road
without going around via Kasota, and
persons from New Ulm and other
points bound for the Western end of
the Omaha road can make direct con-
nection from Sanborn. The new route
will be q direct benefit to New Ulm.
The branch road is to be extended to
the soft coal fields of Iowa, and that
ought to bring New Ulm cheaper coal"
Hays of the Sleepy Eye Dispatch
continues to poke fun at the game, and
last week he published the following.
"South of here you can run across a
railroad rumor almost any place after
you cross the Cottonwood. By the
way the papers are talking you can
find surveying party any old time.
There are three projected" lines and
it may not be many days before we,
too can boast of catching one or two of
these lines"
At any rate, the assistant secretary,
E. S. Beaman OF Sanborn, is earning
his salary, if he gets any. Every time
a train stops at Sanborn, and they are
many each day, Mr.. Beaman is be-
sieged by people looking for jobs, and
by employees addressing him as "as-
sistant secretary" and Offering to lend
their assistance in the enterprise.
Many railroad men are also writing
him on the subject, nearly all of them
jokingly, and life is not exactly con-
tinual round of happiness for the
beaming Ssnborn agent just now.
A Des Moines, Iowa, special to the
Minneapolis Times of last Sunday ad-
mits that the Northwestern is now
building it's line from Dennison to
Wall Lake, and says that from Wall
Lake to Sac City, directly north, the
present Northwestern line will be used,
but from Sac City to Pocahontss and
north the new line will be built next
spring.
| A Des Moines special to the same
paper and of the same date seems to