Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1901-04-19
500 So INJL[ BUILD THIS YEAR.
Practically Settled That the 500 Road
Will Extend the Braddock #
.j$I.5s Branch to Bismarck. Z.
Link in the Chain That Will Connect
s@ Bismarck and Aberdeen by s
I. s,>l:> n Direct Route. -.
An Important Move, on the Railroad
u Checkerboard That Will be of
!. 52 4:. r XII Benefit to Bismarck. ~ =,

Minneapolis Journal: The recent an
nouncement that the 500 would spend
million dollars in betterments this
year was only a drop in the bucket to
the important improvements which
chat road has in mind. :
The 500 has determined to extend
its lines to North Dakota. The west
err, extension now. reaches to Brad
dock. dock. n. 2. forty miles southeast of
Bismarck. These forty miles will be
ironed this season and 500 trains will
run into The capital city before snow
flies. ~ .,....%
The Bismarck extension, however,
is only a. link. The big piece of build
ing, practically decided upon, will be
the construction: of a line connecting
Bismarck and Aberdeen by a direct
route. The distance between these
points is about $50 miles, but the line
will probably run down to Aberdeen
from Wishek, a station on the present
line. .,
The way is clear for this important
piece of railroad construction, as the
read has only to follow the grade es-
tablished by the old Aberdeen, Bis
marck & Northwestern, which was
graded between Bismarck and Aber-
deem several years ago. The extern
sion from Braddock to Bismarck will
follow also this old grade. The road
bed was taken over by the 500 people
at the time Of the. consolidation of the
Minneapolis & Pacific and the Minne-
apolis, Sault Ste. Marie & Atlantic
properties. '.E5t e.5e.5 :, ~.
The Importance Of the Bismarck Alb
erdeen line can only be appreciated by
Dakotans and those familiar with that
country. Two. representative cities
OF: North Dakota are not only brought
into touch, but an immense field is
opened up for the great Ignite coal in
5dust1y along the line OF the Bismarck,
5Washburn & Great Falls Railway.
This fuel, which seems destined to
Srevolutionize things in the Dakotas,
is wanted all over South Dakota, and
the demand has become SO great that
the 500 has determined to place it in
easy reach Of every town in the state.
At present North Dakota Ignite, as
well as other. freight moving between
Bismarck and Aberdeen, goes around
Two sides Of a triangle to get into
South Dakota. The coal is at present
sent from Bismarck to Jamestown over
the Northern Pacific and over the
same line down to Edgeley, and from
Edgeley to Aberdeen, making a long,
circuitous haul OF about 230 miles.
The Soo's new line will shorten this
distance by more than seyenty-fve
miles. ~ n. s., e.. =. J
There is no railroad extension that
will beWelcomed by the people Of both
Dakotas as much as this planned by
the 500, as in all of the dreams of rail-
road extension, to the Black Hills, Da-
kota people have been won't to include
this strong young line. e. The extern
sion Of the road to any part Of North
or South akota means great things
to: Minneapolis commercially, as the
road furnishes the best Of facilities for
the shipment Of Minneapolis merchan-
disc into all Of its territory Il
IN the reclaiming of the trade OF the
Black Hills, an extension Of the 500
to- that country would be- the most
effective agent possible. Not only
would II please the people oe South
Dakota but 1T woalld also put the Min
neapolis who olesalal, and manuf ct,lrer
Ia position Of 5ad dYantage Ia soliciting
the trade OF that state While it is
not believed that the 500 plans a Black
ills extension this year, there Is little
doubt but that this greatly needed i'm
sproYemen win ultimately be under
taken. Other lines might appear to
have q better license to Invade the ter
}ritory Of the Hills than the 500, not
ably the MilWalllxee, but the rapid de-
velopunent of the entire section COM
pretended III the states DC North and
South Dakota makes the entrance Of
one or more roads into the Black Hills
u amatter OF d very short time.
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