The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1903-05-15

Minnesota is to have another independ-
ent railroad, whose possibilities as a means
toward the development of almost unex-
plored parts of the state and toward the
advancement of the commercial I'm pOr-
lance of the twin cities are almost bound
less. The Minneapolis, Superior, ST. Paul
& Winnipeg Railway company, with head
quarters in Minneapolis, project which
was launched in 1897, has at last been.
financed by strong eastern capitalists and
is now ready to complete the survey on
preliminary lines already laid out. With
in two years and six months trains will
be. running over the line If plans are
realized.
AS indicated in the map, the new line
Will run from Minneapolis, almost as the
crow flies, to the head of the lakes and to
Beaudette, q station on the Canadian
Northern. The main line will be about $40
miles to Beaudette, the Superior division
from Anoka will be 40 miles and sunf1ry
branch lines sixty miles, making the total
mileage of the road 500 The capital stock
authorized is $12,60o,000 and the s per
cent gold mortgage bonds ST., $500, 900. The
company will have independent docks at
the head of the lakes and an independent
line of lake freighters.
Traffic arrangements to be made with
the Canadian Northern will give the com
pany outlet to the great northwest and
ample provisions have been made for
connections with east and south bound
trunk lines at Minneapolis.
Low Grades and Good Traffic.
The profile of the line shows low grades
with overhead or under crossings of
other railroads at Mora, Aitkin and Grand
Rapids. The lake terminals will be APP
preached without grade crossings, which
insures rapidity of transportation.
The road will tap a country in north
ern Minnesota almost without railway
facilities, which is rich In timber, produc-
tive soil and grazing lands. Another fea-
ture of the line is the excellent facilities
for outings at Mile Laos which it will
afford business men,. Already st. Louis,
Minneapolis citizens and those of other
cities who seek summer recreation in the
north have stated that when the road is
open fer traffic they will build summer
cottages in Mile Laos county. Hotels will
BE-. built on the lake, along the east shore.
ssx Not less than 100000, 600 feet of hard
/ weed lumber, hundreds OF thousands OF
cords Of hard and soft cordwood, immense
quantities Of pulp wood, posts, telegraph
poles, ties, furniture ma terial, etc, prac-
tically none Of which can be used now.
are accessible to this line. BY means of
boats on the lakes and teams the product
of five mills now built, with an aggregate
output Of 900 feet, are now conveyed at
great expense twenty five to forty miles
to Isle harbor for shipment to Minneapo-
lis. This will in the future come by rail-
One man has already notified the officers
of the road that an entire cut of $1,000
cords a year will be turned over to them
for shipment and another shipper has
offered twenty five acres of timber day.
An expert sent by those financing the
project has just completed a trip over the
line in which he drove three weeks and
broke the trail for 200 miles thru a wild
country His report, made few days
ago, was so enthusiastic, both from an en-
gineer's point of view and from the stand
point of prospector's estimate of the
tonnage tributary to the road that the