The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1902-02-27
WORK ON THE G. 4 N.
Kansas City-Des Moines Section to
Be Built First.
$1,000, 900 IN BONDS PLACED
The Plans of the System Include II
interchangeable Air
Line.

Promoters of the proposed Gulf & Mani
toba road announce that they expect to
begin work this year by the construction
OF the Des Moines & Kansas City line, a
total OF 200 miles. The new line as at
present laid out, extends from Duluth to
Kansas City, distance of 700 miles.
Joseph B. Moore Of Detroit, Mich, has
recently returned from England where
he succeeded in placing for the protected
system $21 900. 900 per cent thirty-year
gold bonds. 1t was Immediately decided
to begin work on the southern section of
the road, which the promoters hope to
have in shape before the end Of the year
The plans of the Gulf & Manitoba COM
pany are said to include a line direct form
Duluth to Minneapolis by way Of
Grantsburg, the most direct route.
The promoters of the Gulf e
Manitoba have been attracted to that
route for the reason that the grades are
easy and the right-of-way comparatively
cheap. 81.
Northwestern states are steadily at
tracing immigration from the territory
along the Hartman and Gould lines in the
southwest, and this in spite Of most
earnest efforts made by the officials of
those lines to turn the attention Of mi
gratory Americans and foreign emigrants
toward that country. This morning a
party OF fifty people arrived in Mime
apolis from Veneda, Indian territory. All
of them will locate in Ward county, North
Dakota, along the 500 road. Their prin-
clpal complaint against the southwest is
the extreme heat in summer. AS one Of
the leading members Of the party put it:
we want to locate in a country where
1t Will not be necessary to take to the
cellar three months in the year in order
to keep alive. Between extreme cold and
extreme heat, we will tax the cold.''
Tourist SIeepers to Chicago.
Tourist sleepers will probably be at
'tached to the trains of most of the Chi
Minneapolis lines within a short
time. The Milwaukee has closely fol-
lowed the lead Of the Great Western and
announces a tWicea-week tourist car
service beginning March 4. The Milwau-
kee has cut into the game with hur-
rah and by getting its service started at
an earlier date evidently intends to steal
some Of the Great Westerns thunder.
This innovation in the Chicago Mime
apois service is not pleasing to some of
the other lines, but they will probably be
forced to follow suit. The primary OBJ
ject of the new service is to accommo-
date homeseekers, many of whom will,
1T Is asserted, patronize tourist sleeper
for dollar, but would not pay 81 for a
berth in a Pullman. Whether the service
VIII Do IlalnLalned AFTER the spring move
ment OF homeseekers has subsidized is. yet
to be decided. A passenger man discuss
Ing the new service to-day, said:
There Is no call whatever for tourist car
service between Chicago and Minneapolis
The homeseekers are not patron1Zing or ask
Ing for sleepers of any kind. The home
seekers coming from Chicago are not as well
off generally as those coming from the south
west, and the latter are spending little money
for sleepers and asking for no service of that
kind. The Pullman company seems to have
started this new issue among the various
lines. The Milwaukee owns its sleepers and
is we'll able to follow suit. The rest of us
may be obliged to join in, but as business
proposition for the roads, it offers slim re-
suits. ~ ..+.