New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1899-02-01

parallel east and west lines are in some
cases as great as 25 miles So says the
Minneapolis Tribune.
Railroads and Rumors Of Railroads..
While in St. Paul last week areporter
of the Sentinel called upon Col w. A.
Scott, the general manager of the Chica-
go, St. Paul, Minneapolis and Omaha
railway, in pursuit of information re-
garding the intentions of that company
in the construction of lines through this
county. Col. Scott is every inch gen.
tleman. He is anything but the .old,
austere and bluff magnate that the pub
lie is wont to expect to meet in railway
Offices. We visited with him for an hour
or more and while we were unable to
obtain any information of value, we
found Col. Scott very frank in giving
such information as he was privileged to
make public. 49,
In the first place he disabused our
mind of the idea that the G. s. N. w.
and the g. St. P. M. g. O. Cos. were one
and the same system. He said they were
seperate and distinct organizations in
every sense of the word, except that Ger
taip capitalists held stock in both. But
the two systems never clash and, meta
phoricallly, scratch each others backs"
when in the field for business.
Col. Scott informed US that there was
no doubt as to the building of the San
born and Welcome branch of the North
western; that the grading contract was
already let and that ne had just given Or
ders to enlarge sidetracks at Butterfield
to make room for construction material.
1t was his opinion that the survey would
be. changed to run into Welcome al
though lie had no official knowledge of
the N. WIS intentions. Regarding the
Omaha's new project from Madelia
south he said construction company
had been organized for building road
from Madelia to the state line; that the
branch would not be extended further
than the state line this year and it was
quite probable that the company would
not build more than or miles farther
south than Fairmont this year; that it
was the intention of the company to
strike the state line in range 20 (East
Chain) and direct route would take
them 8 or miles east Of Fairmont,
where their preliminary survey would
be made; as to whether the company
would defect from its main course would
depend upon the topography of the
countr;, the comparative cost of the
right-of-way, etc, The line starts cut
4 few miles west of Madelia in order to
avoid an expensive river crossing, but
this would doubtless be changed to run
direct TO Madelia.
Col. Scott said it was not the policy
of his company to leave good towns
like Fairmont "out in the cold'' and that
he would at any time lie pleased to meet
a committe of our people and discuss
matters of mutual interest. .,.- ....,
The line as surveyed crosses Elm
Creek half a mile east Of the wagon road,
bears to the east, crosses Center Creek
under the Milwaukee railroad bridge
near John Schef's, crosses South Creek
near Rose Lake creamery and continues
west of East Chain lakes through the
southwest corner of Pleasant Prairie in
to East Chain.-Martin County Sentinel
! ..e ..It's a Co., a
Attorney Lorin Cray, acting for th,
Mankato & New Ulm Railway, toda,
filed with the clerk of court condem
nation proceeding to acquire land fo
the entire right for the new road
The petition asks the court to appoin
commissioners whose duty it shall be t,
appralse the land.
This move on the part of the North
western Railway company is evidence
that the road is to be constructed just a
soon as is possible to do SO. Reports t,
the contrary notwithstanding, Land Com
missioner Cleveland of she Northwestern
Company has already acquired by pur
chase about half Of the right-of.way.
Accompanying the petition filed b
Mr.. Cray is map showing the route .
the new road. The road will be ab6u
twentY-four miles in length and it vii
be almost straight, but very few curve
being visible. Mankato Review.