Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-02-05
Of The ROADS
Some Of the Plans Of Roads for Ex-
tensions in the Upper Missouri
&t's! Slope Country
What is Believed to be the Status of
the Milwaukee and Northern
Pacific Extensions.

Minneapolis Journal: The plans
of the Milwaukee and Northern Pacific
roads fer extensions in southern North
Dakota include a junction of the two
lines at Linton, one of the new Mil
waukee stations in Emmons county.
1t is asserted that the Milwaukee will
run its trains into Bismarck over the
Northern Pacific from Linton.
The Northern Pacific will probably
build its new extension from McKen-
zie, a station east Of Bismarck, south
and southwest to the junction with
the Milwaukee at Linton, N. D. The
Milwaukee line will be extended to a
point near the southern boundary of
the state in Emmons county, and frcm
there east and northeast to connect
with the Northern Pacifc's present
line at Edgeley. This is also the ter
minus of the Milwaukee's line moth
from Aberdeen.
By the arrangement at Linton 4 il
said that the completion of the Mil
waukee to Bismarck or any other point
in that part Of North Dakota will be
delayed several years. The Milwau-
kee seeks simply to secure it's share of
the traffic from the Missouri slope and
the arrangement with the Northern
Pacific, in the Judgment of it's officials,
will suffice for several years to come.
It is conceded that this activity is
the result Of the 500 roads extension
toward the Missouri river last year and
the fact that the 500 is to build more
lines this year. It is considered a
"cinch" in railway circles that the 500
will build into Bismarck before the, end
Of 1902, complete its Missouri river ex-
tension to the river bank in Emmons
county, N. D., and extend from Ashley
or some other nearby point on it's line
into Aberdeen.
By harmonious traffic arrangements
between the Milwaukee and the North
ern Pacific South Dakota will he given
a new route to the Puget Sound coun-
try. 1t is expected that this new
route will ATTRACT business from as far
northwestern Iowa.
This arrangement is regarded as sig
nificant Of friendly relations between
the Milwaukee systems and the merger
roads of James J.. Hill Of which the
Northern Pacific is one. The combin.
carrying off the lions share of the
traffic in northern South Dakota and
southern North Dakota. Until the
500 cut into that section last year, the
Milwaukee had contemplated no extern
sion from Eureka or any other point
in that country. The immense grain
and live stock yield of that section
had been carried principally by the
Milwaukee for years. Eureka, its ter
minus in Mcpherson county, S: D., had
been known forfyears as receiving the
largest amount of grain from farmers
wagons of any market in the world.
So large had it's grain business grown
that forty7three elevators were neces-
sary to handle the receipts. When
the first train ran over the new Mis-
souri, river extension these houses be-
gan to close until, it is claimed, forty
of them were forced out of business
and the prairie breezes whistled
through their empty bins. President
Earring of the Milwaukee road imme-
diately saw the necessity of an extern
sion to hold the Milwaukee's prestige
in traffic in that part of the northwest.