The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1899-03-29

of the present point, or the Sloan
tract in Sheridan, but learned that
it could injure the St. Louis just as
much by striking at the present
place, and then proceeding west
ward. ''The Northwestern" he
said, proposes to cripple the St.
Louis whenever and wherever it
can. 1t is fight to finish.
Whether the road will ever be
extended from the company's town
site in Vesta, or that direction, just
now calls for nothing but guessing.
When the surveying corps finished
running it's line to Vesta last winter
the chief engineer stated that the
corps would return in about six
weeks, after it had changed line
south of here, and that on the re-
turn of the corps he expected to be
ordered to survey north and west.
But this corps has not yet returned,
and it is safe to say that if the line
is extended to Vesta this year it
will not 60 any further, at least this
year.
The St. Louis system is still hold
ing out big expectations in southern
Minnesota and Iowa. When the
new line to Omaha is completed it
will be so miles shorter than the
shortest line at present. The St.
Louis will then have 800 miles of
track owned exclusively by itself,
in addition to the connecting lines
which make up the Minneapolis &
ST. Louis system.
The Times says that Judging from
present indications the southern
extension of the Minneapolis & St.
Louis will mean much more to Min
neapolis than rich line to Omaha.
1t is admitted by an official of the
road that the St. Louis is very
likely to become a close ally of the
Port Arthur Route to the Gulf of
Mexico. A circumstance that adds
much to this story is the fact that
President Hawley of the Mime
apolis & St. Louis is deeply inter
ested financially and actively in the
Southern Pacific, which is said to
largely control the Port Arthur
Route. There are several other
New York railroad men who have
large holdings in these two roads.
The largest mortgage ever filed
in Hennepin county was the one
filed last Wednesday, when the
Central Trust Co. of New York filed
a mortgage for 100000 on the
St. Louis railroad. The mortgage
required $4,000 of revenue stamps,
represented by $50 stamps Of $50
each. This mortgage covers the
rebonding of the road, and also
S., OOO,OO for the construction and
equipment fund.
Here is what the Grower Allen
of the Jackson Republic has to say
regarding Fairmont's numerous
railroad booms: eve thought that
out of the ten or a dozen railroads
flying promiscuously over the coun-
try east of us Sherburn might get
one, but the matter is finally settled
by all going to Fairmont. The B.
O. 4 P. depot is by the Pabst Cold
Storage Plant; the o., N. H. & D.
has selected grounds by the Val
Blatz plant; the T., W. & S. depot
is to be right beside the John Gund
Cold Storage Plant. The NJ. & St.
Patrick's officers will be there the
18th and will probably select the
depot site near where Bill Green
stole Capt. Budd's traps in SO,
while the Southwestern & B. w.
will have to run under the city, as
all valuable lands for right of way is
selected and paid for. It will start
under the city near the Milwaukee
crossing at the lake outlet and pass
just west of Hamm's Cold Storage
Plant, but all roads have arranged
to have the Milwaukee do the
freight and passenger business UNI
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for fourteen years and nothing seemed
to give relief. [ was able to be around
all the time but constantly suffering.