The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1899-06-14
E. E. Carpenter is Bonding
Towns In R6nVill6
County.
Whll6 H6r6 Sunday Stated
that Redwood Was
on the Line.

E. E. Carpenter of the Gulf &
Manitoba Railway company, came
over from Beaver Falls last Sunday
afternoon, in company with Sheriff
VIM. Wichmann, for the purpose OF
securing statistics from Auditor
Tompkins and the survey and pro-
file of the Three Falls Railroad COM
pany, now owned by Capt. w. p.
Huntington, and which survey was
made and profile secured a number
OF years ago.
Mr.. Carpenter is interesting the
towns of Renville county through
which the road proposes to pass in
giving bonds to encourage the
building of the railroad. 1t will be
remembered that the village of
Beaver Falls recently voted
bonds for 81 800 to aid the enter
prise. On Friday the town of
Beaver Falls will vote on the propo-
sition to bond itself to the extent of
$8, 900 for the enterprise, while Mr..
Carpenter is now working in the
towns of Henryville and Troy, Rem
vile county, asking them to bord
themselves in sums ranging from
50, 900 upwards for the same pur-
pose. He asks the towns to bond
themselves in the sum of $4,000 per
mile for each mile of track in the
town, the company contending that
it costs to construct and equip each
mile about S15, 1000, and that they
will add the other $4,000.
Mr.. Carpenter was in THE G GAZETTE
Office for an hour or more Sunday
afternoon He stated that his line
was already built from Galveston,
Texas, to point about 20 miles
north of Kansas City, Missouri, and
that it was doing a magnificent bus
mess He hoped to have it con-
structed to Jackson, this State,
this year, and promises in his prop
osition to the Renville county towns
to have it completed in that county
by Dec 1st, 1900, or a year from
next December He said that it
would take him three weeks to COM
plete his work in Renville county,
after which he would come to Red
wood Falls and make a proposition
to the voters Of this city whereby
they could secure a north and south
road extending from Sauk Centre,
Mimi, to Galveston, Texas. He
said that the company proposed to
run to county seat towns all along
the line, but the question of the line
running to those towns depended
largely upon the assistance that the
towns gave. He would not state
what his company would require of
Redwood Falls at the present time,
saying that be would first have to
look over the ground, and the diff
cult railroad building which he con-
tended it would require to run from
here to Beaver Falls.
In regard to the rumor that Mr..
Davidson, who owns the Davidson
lands in Morgan and Three Lakes,
had offered his company an so acre
tract for townsite and ten mile
strip through the Davidson lands
in those towns. he said that no such
proposition-or even any kind of a
proposition-had been made from
that source. and in case a PROPOSE
ton like that was made it would
not be entertained until Redwood
Falls had rejected a proposition he
will hereafter make. Mr.. Carpen-
ter said that Morton wanted the
road very badly, and offered to give
assistance, but for the present, he
was compelled to decline the propo-
sition.
There is no great sign of railroad
activity around SanbOrn-all be-