The Redwood gazette. [volume] (Redwood Falls, Minn.) 1873-1940, 1901-06-12
The Great Western and North.
western Fighting in Red
wood County.
Engineer Morgan Of the Great
Western Says His Line
Means Business.

Dwight Y. Morgan, assistant chief
engineer of the Chicago Great West
ern. Railroad Co., was in Redwood
Falls for a few hours last Friday,
coming up from Sleepy Eye on the
Northwestern morning train, and
returning to that place on the train
leaving here at i o clock. While in
Redwood Falls, Mr.. Morgan was
hurriedly shown over the city and
presented to a few of the business
men. He was greatly pleased over
the city, from the scenic and busi-
ness standpoint, and said he had no
idea Redwood Falls was Of the size
it appeared to be to him.
Mr.. Morgan's S mission here was to
secure maps of Redwood county,
which were supplied to him by The
GAZETTE Office. On the day previ-
Gus his corps of surveyors had run
into Sleepy Eye and that morning
they had commenced running a line
directly west of that place. He
stated that he had been directed by
his superior officers to run the line
between Sleepy Eye and Evan, cross
ing the Northwestern stub mile Or
two on this side Of Sleepy Eye, run
ming through the northern portion
Of Brookville and a portion Of the
northern part Of SundowE, making
straight for Wabasso, and then pro-
ceed on an air line for Marshall,
and from that city go due west to
the South Dakota line, probably
striking at Hendricks, and almost
certain to strike at rookings, South
Dakota. Further than that place
Mr.. Morgan would make no state
ment.
The Great Western is after the
Northwestern railroad, and the
Northwestern proposes to use every
means to force that company out of
a territory IN which it now has COM
plete sway. This was mentioned to
Mr.. Morgan, and that official at once
replied that the Great Western had
not stopped surveying as result Of
the Northwestern surveyors run
ming line from Morgan west to
Marshall. I'VE propose to 60 ahead
with the survey, said Mr.. Morgan,
and if the Northwestern insists on
running line parallel to the one we
propose to run that company has a
perfect right to do so. We cannot
prevent them. :
Mr.. Morgan then stated that two
lines had been run from Mankato to
New Ulm, one on either side of the
Minnesota river. He was not GER
tain which line his company would
accept, but the grade in either case
was satisfactory. Passing out of
| New Ulm the Great Western sur
yey runs north of the Northwestern
track for some distance until Essig,
a small station between New Ulm
and Sleepy Eye, is reached, and
at this point the Great Western line
is just within 400 feet Of the North
western tracks. The assistant chief
engineer stated that he had found
a much better grade out of the Min
nesota valley than has the North
western, the grade called for by his
profile being not over fve-tenths OF
one per cent. From Essig to Sleepy
Eye the Great Western survey calls
| for a line alongside of that Of the
North western, keeping on the north
side, and its course through Sleepy
Eye is on the north side Of the tracks
| of the Vanderbilt system. He ex-
pected to have his preliminary line
completed to Wabasso by this even
ing, or before. You can say, 8 said
he, that we have been instructed
Ito strike Wabasso, and that will be
one Of the competitive points be-
tween the Great Western and North
western systems.
Mr.. Morgan limited at a possible
line for Redwood Falls, involging
another railroad company running