The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1899-01-25

| FACTS or FAKES.
But They Are. Given Just as VIZ
Get Them From Surveyors.
The corps of surveyors, engaged
in surveying line northwest
through this county, from Sanborn
and passing out Of the county
through the barn of Archie Stewart
in Underwood, or some latitude and
longitude thereabouts, pulled uI
stakes during the early part of last
week, announcing that they had
been called south to make a change
Of II miles in the survey in Martin
and Watonwan counties-the change
evidently running from Fairmont
to Madelia, and wanted by the new
Watonwan Railway company. This
corps of surveyors announced that
just as soon as they finished the
change they would return to Red.
wood county, and proceed in a
northwesterly course from the lati-
tude of Archie Stewards Under
wood barn, to some point unknown.
There is no doubt of one thing.
This surveying corps is the survey.
ing corps of the Chicago & North
western Railway Co. This company
has incorporated three new com
panies during the past few months
each company to construct a feed
er for the main artery-the North
western. The incorporators of the
new companies are all Northwestern
people. The surveying corps ad-
NIT their connection with the North
western and receive their time
checks from that company. The
Northwestern is after business,
aside from administering a little
dose of medicine to the St. Louis
for cutting into it's territory at New
Ulm.
In this connection it is we'll to
take glance at the map, and see
where the proposed line from Fair
mont to Madelia runs. Originally,
the company proposed to enter the
State at about Range 80, proceed
northerly to Butterfeld, and then
northwesterly to Sanborn. While
the run from Fairmont to Madelia
does not prevent the company from
building the former, it is hardly
probable that it will parallel itself
in II miles of territory A change
of survey means that the line will
run northeast from Fairmont to Ma
della, and then proceed northwest
to San born, or to Sleepy Eye, and
then up the Nickle Plate system to
proceed west along the north side
of the Redwood river. This cuts
off all proposed St. Louis territory
west of Redwood Falls, as far as
the Northwestern chooses to paral-
lei that line.
Do they mean business? Ask
any farmer along the line of sur
vey and you will be assured that
they do. Ask the men engaged in
the surveying corps and they will
be ready to wager almost any sum
that the line will be constructed
from Burt, Iowa, north to Sanborn,
or some point intersecting with the
Northwestern system -Sanborn OF
Sleepy Eye-this year. In fact, il
is stated on the best of authority
that Winston Bros. of Minneapolis
have already secured the contract
for throwing the dirt on this line
and it is well known that ties and
rails are in store at Waseca, already
to be laid on the grade, as soon as
that work is finished. No, there
does not seem to be the least doubt
of the construction of the line.
How about the line from Sanborr
northwest? Well, there is where
the doubt lies. But there was ne
hesitancy on the part of certain
members of the crew in admitting
that the line would not be construct
ed during 1899. At the same time
these people we're sure that it would
ultimately be constructed-next
year, or some other year, but not
this year, they said. Some confr'
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