The Redwood gazette., 1899-09-20
LOCAL RAILROAD NEWS.
How the Work Is Progressing on
the 6. 4 m. and N. w.

will now push the work OF grading
from the Morse house to and
through Beaver Falls village as
rapidly as possible, he expecting to
have the work done inside of a
month, in case the weather permits.
This, Of course, includes the cutting
down of the big hill just southwest
of the village, which was stated last
week would be left for winter work,
which was confounded with the hill
on this side of the Minnesota river
Contractor King returned from
DesMoines last Saturday morning,
bringing with him his sons wife
and child, who will reside with
King, Jr., in the Morse house until
the graders get the work done for
some distance on either side of the
place. Mr.. King stated to a
GAZETTE reporter that he had pur-
chased an additional supply of tools,
etc., and had also engaged number
of additional men and teams, and that
the latter were now coming across
country to Redwood Falls for the
purpose of working on the grade.
Saturday afternoon Mr.. Campbell
left for DesMoines and other south
ern and eastern points for the pur-
pose Of arranging for the shipping
ties and rails to point on the St.
Louis system a mile or two east Of
North Redwood, where the officials
claim they will put in Y to connect
with the Minneapolis & St. Louis.
Gov. Campbell stated that an cleo
tion would soon be called in Henry
vile township, Renville county, and
that as soon as the same was over,
they would return to Redwood Falls
with the view of making arrange
ments for the completion of the line
in and through this city, which, of
course, means the submission of a
proposition to the voters of Red
wood and Paxton townships.
On Sunday President Carpenter
and Engineer Curtiss left for Will
mar, going overland, and it is stated
on the best authority that the two
gentlemen will attempt to make
arrangements for the completion of
the line through to Willmar before
they return to Beaver Falls. 1t is
conceded that such action would
assist the company in securing aid
south of Redwood Falls, where
everybody desires rectconnections
with the Duluth wheat markets, as
we'll as the fuel fountains of Duluth
and the north.
Engineer Curtis has acted as a
railroad engineer in the Rocky Noun
tains for ten years prior to the out
break of the war with Spain. He
was then in Utah, and the Utah bat
terry desiring good engineer, he en-
listed with that crowd of men and
went to the Philippines, where he
did good engineering work for our
troops. Returning to the United
States with his battery, he came to
DesMoines, where a G.. & M. official
picked him up and sent him up to
this section to work for the company.
On Friday all of the employees of
the company received the money
due them up to that time, and the
people who were saying that the
men would never be paid and that
the road would only be used as a
wagon road, were obliged to take to
shelter, and it is rumored that crepe
was hanging On the outer knob of
of Hamlet's 2x6x6 earthly den in
Beaver Falls.
The last issue of the Belview In
dependent has the following: "Sun-
day our reporter visited the new
Vesta town site, where camp COM
posed of 18 men and IL teams are
located. They have graded the
road mile and half and are grad
ing a side track. Two lots have
been sold here to two different lum-
ber companies. A large crew of
graders was found busy near T. ].
Sloan's. Another large camp is
situated near the terminus in Vesta,
while another crew is on its way
from Iowa. In conversation with
the contractor we learned that the
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