Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-02-27
IH[ CONTRACT hADE
Terminal Facilities Secured For.
the Des Moines and Iowa
Falls Road.
Contract Made With +. N. Hub.
bell Of the Des Moines
Union.
E. S. Ellsworth. the Promoter.
Now Sansuine That Road
Will Be Built.
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Iowa Falls, Feb. 27.-The second step
IN the building of the Des Moines. Iowa
Falls & Northern railroad was taken
yesterday when r. S. Ellsworth. w. H..
Courtney and w. w. shipley, compos-
Ing the executive commit tee. contracted
with F. NJ. Hubbell, of Des Moines, for
terminal facilities in Des Moines to be
furnished by the Des Moines Union. The
contract will become effective after Its
approval by the directory of the Desl
Moines Union. Mr. Ellsworth spent sew
ie:ral hours yesterday in conference with
f. NJ. Hubbell, president of the Dies
Moines Union. discussing with him the
conditions upon which MIR. Hubbell.
WOULD give the proposed line access to
Des Moincs over the tracks of the
Union. The road, If built, will enter
the city from a point in the vicinity of
| Youngstown, where connection is made
with a spur of the Des Moines Union,
| and whence ingress to the city would be
lzeasy.
/ Mr.. r. NJ. Hubbell. at the conference
/ yesterday, assured Mr.. Ellsworth that
! The management of the Dies Moines
lst'nion would be pleased to give him ma
4 terial encouragement in so far as Sc
Touring terminals in Des Moines We're
lconcerned MIR. Hubbell. while he de-
clined to make public the conditions
proposed to President Ellsworth, stated
as a result of the conference with Mr..
Ellsworth he was sanguine the road
4 would be built.
/ According to Mr.. Ellsworth the most
serious obstacle to beginning work on
4 the road at once has been the obstinacy
Of the promoters of the Duluth & New
/ Orleans line in refusing either to CO.
/ operate with the Dies Moines. Iowa Falls
/ &, Northern or to dispose OF the right
4 of-way to the latter. The Wardalis, of
+ Nevada, backed by number of promi-
Enent capitalists. among them two or
/ three wealthy farmers Of Story county,
|exploited the Duluth & New Orleans en-
sIterprise two years ago. but after COM
4 rleting the survey from Nevada south
70 Dies Moines and grading four miles
of road In the vicinity OF Cambridge,
they were compelled by lack of funds
4 10 abandon the enterprise, at least for a
4 time. A . per cent tax voted the COM
4 pany at Nevada upon condition that it
was not to be paid until the road was
lioompleted and ready for operation from
Nevada to Des Moines. lapsed because
q LOT inability to meet the conditions.
The project was allowed to lie dor
Z mant for six or seven months, and APP
pretending 1t had passed to the GENE
ltery of things unaccomplished, Mr.. Ellis.
worth and a number of other gentlemen
Interested themselves in projecting 8
! Iline of road from Iowa Falls to De:
Moines, using a portion of the route
surveyed by the promoters of the Du-
n luth & New Orleans.
To their very great surprise Mr.. War.
Gall and his associates in the seemingly
defunct enterprise objected and even re-
J iected overtures looking to cooperation
of themselves With Mr.. Ellsworth in thu
!. CONSTRUCTION of the proposed road from
z Iowa Falls. That which MIR Ellsworth
desires toslearn, however. is whether thu
J Duluth & New Orleans company intene
} Ito build. If they seriously entertain re
-slviving their project and entering agar
efiupon its construction. then the Iowa
Falls line may not be built. However
Mr. Ellsworth is reasonably contiden
that the Duluth & New Orleans com
I rany is all but defunct. and proceeding
on this assumption he is making ar.
Z arrangements to begin the construction O.
#lihis road early next spring