Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-01-28
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JOE DIETRICH WRITES UP FROM
SOUTH DAKOTA THAT THE AIR
is FULL OF RAILROADS ALL
HEADED FOR BISMARCK.
Joseph Dietrich, who is looking af-
ter the interests Of the Washburn Coal
company in South Dakota, writes the
Tribune from Milbank, S. D.:
Il have been travelling around the
Aberdeen country for a couple of
weeks and wherever you go they talk
of railroads building northwest from
Eureka. I was up there a few days
ago and saw the paper that came out
the day I vas there SO thought 1 would
send 1t to you. They are all talking
500 and Milwaukee to Bismarck but I
am afraid that would be too much at
once.''
The Eureka Post says regarding the
surveW
Eureka was surprised last Satur-
day by the arrival of J.. H. McNaught
OF Milwaukee, assistant surveyor of
the c., M. & st. P. Ry. He at once
picked up what local help he wanted
and on Monday a full corps of survey
ors arrived, making in. all about 20
men. Tuesday morning they com
menced work in earnest. It is re-
ported that the company will build
about, 60 miles of road and the sup
position is that Linton, Emmons
county, N. D., is their destination.
Harry Hunter and Frank Alexander
drove to Linton last Saturday which
would indicate that the right-of-way
would be procured in that vicinity be-
fore long. This would give the stock
men in that Section direct commune
cation with Sioux City, st. Paul and
Omaha.
There is a lot of guessing as to
where the Milwaukee will go. At
present the surveyors are .encamped
near the old 81 short piece of grade
on Spring Greek, seven miles north
west of Eureka. Wednesday they
drove to Artas for supplies. This
gave rise to the supposition that they
Wer going to Artas, which is incor-
ect. They will go east of Artas sew
eral miles, and after crossing Spring
creek, proceed in a direct course
towards Westfeld, Hull and make
Winchester or Linton. What do you
guess? Supplies will be run in here
at Eureka as fast as possible"
The Aberdeen News says: "Infor-
nation from Eureka received TODAY
confirms the rumor that surveyors for
the Milwaukee extension from that
place northwest are on the ground and
at work running the preliminary lines.
1t is stated that the surveyors have in
structlons to complete the work and
set the stakes ready for the graders to
mak0th dirt fly as soon as the frost
IS outsof the ground the coming spring:
me engineer in charge gives out no
information beyond this, and the pre-
else course to be followed and the ex-
act length of the line to be built are
not Known to the public beyond the
fact that the terminus will be some
where north Or northwest of the 500
line, and that it is the purpose of the
Milwaukee to build a good town at the
end of the line in the best part of the
territory which the 500 cut off from
the Milwaukee last season.
1T is understood that the intention
OF the Milwaukee is to rush the work
and get the line in readiness for bus
mess so that buyers at the new ter
minal town can handle the grain crop
of the present year and be in readiness
for the stock shipments of the year.
'The surveying party is said to con-
tain twenty mel and, it is in charge
of Assistant Engineer Mcknight. The
Eureka people believe the line will be
anywhere from sixty to eighty miles
in length and it is figured by some
that the terminal town may be in the
neighborhood of Linton, N. D."
GIVE UP THE BLANKET