The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1902-03-18
RAILWAY EXTENSION
MANY ROADS ARE ADDING TO
THEIR LINES THROUGHOUT
THE COUNTRY
SITUATION IN NORTHWEST
Detailed Account of the COnstruc-
ton Work That the Local
Lines Are Doing This
Year

Accompanying the current issue OF the
Railway and Engineering Review is a
complete list, in detail, of the railroad
construction, contemplated and now in
construction, all over the country.
The following is an extract from the
supplement, covering the local roads and
the details of the construction of the va
I1ous extensions, betterments, etc, that
is now in progress throughout the North
west:
Chicago & North Western-Grading has
been completed on the Minnesota West
ern extension from Evan to Marshall,
Mimi, forty-six miles. Track to be laid
this year.
Extension from Deadwood to Leadvile,
). D., to be finished this spring. w. H.
Dacy and P. J. McHugh, DeadwOod, S. D.,
contractors.
Surveys reported made for a direct line
from Waukesha northwest to Princeton,
Wis, eighty miles.
1t is stated that a branch will be built
from Newton, H., via Rockford, ILL.,, to
GAINESVILLE, Wis, 100 miles.
chicago, st. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha
An extension from LIE Mars to Sioux
CITY, Iowa, is reported as under conSidera-
ton.
Reports state that Winston Bros, St.
Paul, Mimi, have the contract fo- the
TO extend from Rice Lake Wis to a
point on the Chicago & North Western
railway; IN Iron county, 100 miles
Inc chippewa 4 ais q northwestern
railway has been incorporated to buiN a
connecting branch with the Chicago q
North-W estern at Little Falls, Wis.
Inc Eau Claire, Chippewa Fails and
Northeastern has been incorporated to
build branch in Chippewa county, TWEEN
ty-eight miles, beginning a Little Falls.
Wis.
Chicago Great Western-On the extern
sion which this company is building from
Fort Dodge, Iowa, to Omaha, Winston
Bros, Minneapolis, have the contract for
from I'll
ninety miles George M kepner, Lake
city, Iowa, has the contract for a heavy
MI a mile long, near Lake City. Con-
tract for masonry construction let To
Bates q Rogers Construction Co.. Man.
haitian building. Chicago Winston Bros
have Sublet contracts for thirty-siX miles
of this extension to the following con-
tractors: Hall Construction Co, St
Louis, Mo: Phelan & Shirley, Omaha
Neb.; Butler q Ryan, Minneapolis, Mimi. ;
Vaughan & Conroy, St Louis. NO. James
Wickham, Council Bluffs, Iowa
The company will build a large amount
OF double track during 1902.
Citizens of La Crosse, Wis, have offer
ed a bonus of $4,000 for a branch to that
city. The branch line would start at New
Hampton, Iowa, and run via Waukon
Decorah, Freeport and Conner, Iowa, a1i
Caledonia, MINI.
Extension from Zumbrota, Mimi. to
Rochester, thirty miles. Surveyed last
Ia!L Contractor, John Grant, Farbauit.
MINI.
1t is reported that plans have been
made for a cutoff from Des Molnes
Iowa, down along the Des Moines river
10 Lehigh, tapping the coal fields OF
Bonne and Webster counties.
A cutoff from Oelwein. Iowa. to Vay-
srly, twenty miles, mas been surveyed.
Dakota EasterH-Organized in Febru-
airy, 1902 to build a line from WATERFOWL
VIA Fargo, N. D., to Sioux Falls, S. ID. H.
d. Walruth and w. ID. MorrS, Water
town, n. D., are directors.
Great Northern - Cutoff between
Blanchard and Fairhaven, Wash. Work
to begin soon.
Branch from Jennings, north along the
kOotenay river to the Canadian boun-
dairy, where it will join the Crows Nest
Southern, which is building from the coal
fields st F'ernie, b. c.
Surveys reported for a cutoff from
halispell Mont, to a point on the North
ern Pacific, about siXty-five miles.
Minneapolis & Anoka-Incorporated in
June, 1901, to build a line between the
two towns named. John j. Elliott, Ar
thur II. Selover, E. II. Fuller and others
OF Minneapolis, Mimi, are incorporators.
Minneapolis, st. Paul & Sault Ste. Ma
Tie-EXtension from Nahoma, up Stur--
SeCn river, twenty-five miles.
The entire line in Michigan, amounting
to $50 miles, is to be relaid with eighty
pound rails.
Minnesota & Northern Wisconsin-Ex-
tension in progress from ClOquet into St
Louis county, thirty-five miles, to timber
lands. A. s. Brooks, Minneapolis Mimi
general manager.
Red Lake Transportation Company -
Proposed line from Red Lake to Farley
tWenty-four miles. The line has been 10
Gated for the entire distance, and twelve
miles have been completed and put in op-
Grafton. Z. II. Richards, 509 Globe bWId-
ing, Minneapolis, Mimi, president.