Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-12-22
The Creston- Winterset Electric
Company Awards Contract
for Roadbed and Track
EXTENSION IS CONCENTRATES
crestonites Say the Des Moines Conn
pany Has Delayed Commencement Of
Work So Long Their Franchise =
Invalidated-Extension Of the Dss
Mones, Iowa Falls and Northern.

Des Moines, Dec. 22.-The Creston
Electric Light, Railway and Power
Company, of Creston, Iowa, company
incorporated to build an electric road
from Creston thru Macksburg to VIM.
terset to connect with line of the
Interurban railway company to extend
from Des Moines to Winterset. has
awarded a contract to the Collins Con
struction Company, of Chicago, to built
the road bed, and put down the tracy
The contract calls for the completios
of the road by January 1, 1904, or with A
in the next year
The company is now figuring on til
extension OF its line to a connectio
with the Interurban company's line
point on Middle river. south OF th
Army Post, and of bringing its car
into Des Noines by this route, accord
ing to Creston advices. However, th
this city say that it is still their intez
ton to build a line to Winterset.
The Crestonites say that the DG d
Moines company has delayed the com
mencement of work on its Winterse5
line so long that it will be impossible
to complete the road in time to hold
the franchise voted by the people Of
voters there are so favorable to their
proposition that the Des Moines com
pany cannot secure another franchise.
They are banking on the failure Of the
Des Moines company to get an exten
sion of its franchise to carry their
project thru.
The Commercial Association of Ma>
son City is making overtnres to Presf~
dent Ellsworth and other officials OF
the Des Moines. Iowa Falls & North
ern road to build the northern exten-
Sion of the line to that city, and cOn-a
meet with the Iowa Central there in
stead e 70 Han'aton' as j. now con-
templated.
Representatives of the company say
there is little prospect that the Mason
City proposition will receive serious
1t would require tha
building of twice as much road as IL
to reach the Iowa Gems
trail at that point, and would necessi-
tate the paralleling of the Iowa Cen-
trail for forty miles. When Mason City u
would be reached there would be no S
connections for the road that would
not be obtained by building to Harnp-
ton Hampton has both the Great
Western and the Iowa Central These
roads also reach Mason City. The
Northwestern and the Milwaukee are
the other roads reaching Mason City.
The lines of these roads are reached BY
the Iowa Falls line on that portion OF
the road already completed.
The construction company which is
building the new Iowa Falls road, now
has its main camps consolidated near
Four Mile creek, just north Of the city
limits
AS there Is considerable tax aid vot-
ID, conditional on the arrived of the
'oad within the city limits by Decen-
,er 31st, they are now prosecuting the
work more vigorously than ever, in &
'pite of the snow and cold.
AT present Is appears that unless the
rains drawing material from the COM
,any's supply yards a i McCallsburg are
lindered by further SHOWS. the cons
amy will win out in its fight against
isne with a few days to spare.