The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1901-11-01
GRADING CONTRACT
Flick & johnson Get 1t to lie
Sueur Center.
Board of Trade Committees View the
Proposed Milwaukee Right Of Way
Near Knitting Mill.

The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
railway company has awarded the
contract for grading along that sec
tion of the line of the Pennington ex-
tension from this city to LIE Sueur
Center to Flick & Johnson, who have
the contract for the section from LIE
Sueur Center to Pennington. Mr..
Flickswas recently in the city looking
over the. ground preparatory. to. sub
mitting bid on the..work. .s,s...--
Flickss&- johnson s--contract calls for
doing. the necessary a--grading..from.. a
point on thesss.. Chicago Great Western
road where it crosses the Brooks farm
three miles north of the city to q
point short distancesthis side of LIE
Sueur Center. >. The Milwaukee. track
will. branch out from the .Great..@@West-
ern. at the Brooks. farm, least ofsthe- st.
Peter...wagon road, ..and.. .will.parallel
the Chicago & .sNorthwestern : tract. to
Bradleys crossing.
No right of way has yet been secured
through the village OF LIE .Sueur Cen
ter, and Right of Way Agent Hewitt
has. not received instructions to secure
it. This will probably be his next task.
The board of trade committees on
railroads land manufactures viewed
the ground. near the knitting mill
where the milwaukee road seeks a
right of way, at three O'Clock Tues
day afternoon. Only two members
were absent, those present being l..
Patterson and John N. Hall of the rail-
road committee and 81. P Jensen,
John Klein, F. M. Currier and F. @.
Henze of the manufactures COM
mittee.
M. G.. Willard is a member of the
railroad committee, but was present
as representative of the mill COM
pany. Agent Moore and A. R. Pau
were present as representatives of the
road, and M. B. Haynes was present
to explain map which he had made
of the locality.
The committees merely looked the
ground over, and did not meet after
wards. They will await the develop
ments of the next few days before
their services as mediators be-
tween the railroad and mill COM
panies.
A member of one of the committees
this afternoon expressed the belief that
the mill company's demand of So, 900
for the right of way is not too high.
The hearing on the injunction pro-
ceeding brought by the mill company
to prevent the road from grading or
laying track on the land in dispute was
again adjourned Wednesday until nine
O. clock Thursday morning, when it is
to come off.
The representatives of the railroad
say that the road will not
now pay the mill company anything
for the land, preferring to take it at
the price set by appraisers in condem-
nation proceedings. They say that
they. were willing the other day to pay
much northumberland the
land worth, but that that time has
gone .----
s"sThes-position (which 1.-THE. road. will
take at the injunction hearing .tomor-
row will be that the road does not
want any of the mill company's land,
and that it has not entered upon it.
1t will say that the land does not be-
long to the mill company, but to John
Page, and that it has bargained with
Mr.. Page for the right of way.
The mill company claims to own
the land.
The Milwaukee work trains are still
hauling dirt and filling in south of the
mill. 1t is expected that about ten
days will be required to finish this
grading.
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