The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1899-10-11
RAILROAD TALK.
What Is Being Done In Redwood
and Renville Counties.


Northwestern extension from San
born to section Is, Vesta, having
four or five miles of grading Just
west of the Sheridan creamery, was
in the city last Friday and stated
that the contractors along the line
expected TO have the grading all
done by week from next Friday,
and that they also expected to have
other grading work for the North
western this year.
On Friday morning last the con-
struction crew, consisting of about
200 men, and with cars and engines,
having in charge the work of laying
the track and building the bridges
and culverts, started out from San
born, and commenced the work of
laying the track north of Vesta. On
Monday morning the crew was re-
inforced by the new patent track
layer, which drops the ties and
rails into position, as we'll as slight
ly pushes in the spikes, and the
machine is followed up by men, who
finish the spike driving. The ma
chine and crew ought to lay between
mile and mile and half of track
each day, completing the line, if
good weather holds out, by Nov.
1st.
Freight and mixed trains are run
ming between Butterfield and San
born, while elevators all along the
line are buying wheat, which is be-
ing handled by Northwestern cars.
J. c. w. Kline of Omaha, civil
engineer of that place, with quite a
crew of assistants, were in town for
a few hours last Saturday, having
been driven in from Sheridan. Mr..
Kline and staff are in the employ of
the Western Town Lot Co., the town
lot adjunct of the Northwestern
system, and had been engaged in
plating out the towns in Sheridan
and Vail. Mr.. Kline was seen at
the Northwestern depot by GA
zETTE reporter Saturday afternoon
and stated that he would have the
plats of the various towns left to
him for plating in the hands of the
company at Chicago during the lat
ter part of this week, and that they
ought to be returned to the register
of deeds of Redwood county some
time next week. He could not state
positively but he was Of the opinion
that the town lot sales would be an
nounced inside of three weeks.
Mr.. Kline's staff appearing in
Redwood Falls gave rise to a rumor
that they were here for the purpose
of surveying a line from the termi-
nal in this city to a connection at
Sheridan or Vesta-in fact, the good
natured farmer who brought them
in started the report that the crew
was coming for that purpose and he
was pleased to think that he would
be able to jump on the cars at Sea-
forth and come into town, inside of
six months. Then, too, it was rum
ored that O. D. Miller had been
directed to remove some hay off of
the company's right-of-way, just
west of the terminal, and this meant
an extension. But these were fakes.
Mr.. Kline stated that he had not
been directed to make a survey,
and did not know of survey being
made, or that had been made for the
suggested extension of the 1879
stub. He returned home Saturday
afternoon. The company has sur
vey west of here. but not connect
ing at 20, Sheridan, or 16, Vesta, a
survey that was made in about
1880, at time when it scared the
St. Louis out of running it's line into
Redwood Falls and Marshall.
Over on the Gulf & Manitoba the
work of grading is still going on,
and it is fair to state that the COM
pany has grades far excelling any