The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1900-06-07
lAEES IN BRANCH LINES
TORTH-W PROPOSES TO
ABSORB PROPRIETARY LINES
INTO THE SYSTEM
PROPOSAL TO STOCKHOLDERS
At n Meeting in Chicago Today
They Will Be Asked to APP
prove the CONSOLE
datiOn.

A meeting will be held in Chicago to-
day. which viii have considerable effect
upon railroad interests il the southern
part of the state. At a session called to
meet in Chicago, stockholders of the Wi
mona & St. Peter road Will consider
proposition to sell the entire property, in
GLIDING several branch lines acquired by
that company during its existence. The
road has been operated for several years
as a part of the Chicago & Northwest
ern system. An official call for the
stockholders meeting has been issued by
Marvin Hughitt, president of the Wi
mona Il ST Peter as well as Of the
Northwestern. The call says the meet
ing is to consider and act upon the fol-
lowing question:
The sale to the Chicago & Northwest
ern Railway company of the railways
and of some or all of the rights, privi-
leges, franchises, immunities. assets and
property of the Winona & st. Peter Rail
road company Gncluding those of the
Dakota Central Railway. company, the
Mankato and New Ulm Railway COM
pany, and the Minnesota and South Da-
kota Railway company, acquired by said
Winona and st. Peter Railroad COM
pany).
All the roads affected by the proposed
sale have been operated for some time
as proprietary lines of the Chicago &
Northwestern. OF these the old Winona
& st. Peter line is the most important,
covering AS rs miles of road, extending
from Winona to WATERFOWL, S. D, 1922. "a
miles; Rochester to Zumbrota, 23.4S
miles, Tracy to the South Dakota state
line, 1910 miles; Sleepy Eye to Redwood
Falls, 2440 miles; Chatfeld to ChatfieId
Junction, ll,46 miles, and Plainview to
Plainview Junction, 1901 miles.
The Dakota Central railway, which is
at present known as the Dakota division
of the Northwestern, covers 723.9 SO miles
and includes lines from the Minnesota
state line 10 Pierre, S. D.; James Valley
Junction to Cakes n. D.. Watertown to
Gettysburg il South Dakota; Sioux City
TO WATERFOWL; Iroquois,' S. D., to Haw-
arden; Doland, S. d, to Groton N. D,
and Centerville, S. D., to Yankton.
The Minnesota 81 South Dakota line,
according to an official of the North,
Western, and the Mankato & New Ulm
both of which are included as a part Of
the Winona & st. Peter in the sale, were
constructed as individual lines and at d
later period the former was made part
of the Winona & St Peter line from WI
mona to the Minnesota state line The
latter was taken in also and is the pres
ent route between the two Southern
Minnesota towns
While the sale will be a matter of form
and will have no apparent effect upon the
operation of the lines affected it be-
comes a matter of considerable i'm
portance from the fact that it will add
to the Chicago & Northwestern 1,172A
miles by eliminating them from the item
of proprietary lines heretofore shown in
the annual reports of the road" This
will give the road in the item of "divis-
ions and branches owned" 4,462.70 miles,
and will leave only 1906 miles of pro-
brietary line, the Princeton & Western,
hinder operation by that system.
The stocks and bonds of the Winona
& ST. Peter have been owned by the
Chicago & North Western for several
years. During the year 1885, all the pro
prietary lines of the road, with the excep-
ton of three, including the lines to be
sold today, were taken up and made
part of the divisions and branches
owned of the North Western. Today's
sale will complete the process of the ac-
QUESTION of the proprietary railways,
with the exception, as stated, of 1906
miles of track.