Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-12-01
New Burlington Time Gard.


The new Burlington time card No
went into effect yesterday at noon
There are no changes in the passen-
ger service affecting Ottumwa. The
train on the Abba branch which for
merry Went north at . o'clock in the
morning will leave under the new caro-
at 1926 a. m. 1t will. however, make.
the same connection With the Bur
lington train for Des Moines.
"Y" Nearly Completed.
The new ~" which is being built
near the Milwaukee junction depot to
connect With the main line down town
track is nearing completion. 1t is
though that it will be sufficiently neal
finished to allow of its use on neXi
Monday.
New Line Across Iowa.
According to report emanating
from sNinterset the Rock Island has
practically completed arrangements for
the construction of Il new line across
Iowa which will be the shortest line
between Davenport and Council Bluffs
and incidentally the shortest between
| Chicago and omaha. The distance
between Davenport and Council Bluffs
viii be Shortened between forty and
fifty miles. The terminals of the new
line will be Knoxville and Council
Bluffs.
1t is said that surveys have already
been nude for the greater part of the
route, where the route viii be almost
a direct straight line across Marion,
Warren, Madison, Adair. Cass and.
PottaWattamie counties.
Knoxville is now the terminal OF a
branch of the Rock Island, which is
| built almost straight west from DAY.
| export. TIE country TO be tapped by
the proposed extension has Very poor
X raj rf1.tI fl l1t.flI
| line reaching it running north alc
| south.
Among the towns that will probably
be reached by the proposed extension
are Indianela, Winterset. Greenfield
/ Cumberlan6. Griswold and Carson.
| 1t is said that the main object. il
| building the road is to facilitate tbs
| handling of through business on this
Rock Island. Ia
After Mail Contracts.
II is also rlnored that the Rock
Island will so after the nail contracts
between Omaha and Chicago oyer
which the Northwestern ami Builing-
| ton have been scrapping for wears, the
! Burlington holding il At present, Tbs
! new road will be considerably shorter
| than either OF the other lines, ami
/ the slow freight, there is nothing IA
/ prevent an unusual speed being at
tanned
1 So sure are the Winterset peope
| that the road is going to be built that
| they are investing heavily iii real
estate along where The surveys are
! said to have been made.
Surveyors Busy Elsewhere
| According To reports from Burning
| ton, the Rock Island has n corps OF
! engineers surveying II route along thu
Mississippi river between Davenport
and ST. Louis With Il View of building
| Il line there next summer. The road
| would be IA valuable feeder in addition
| to giving the line considerable south
ern business.
| a Rate War.
The prospects of a rate war between
| the Rock Island and Burlington are
InoM good Ia consequence of the
| Burlington announcing Il 81 rate he
! tween Illinois coal fields and the twin
/ cities. The Rock Island announces ii
| Will carry The rate war into contigu-
/ Gus Territory of the two roads ana
! Will probably include other lines
/ of freight besides coal when ii gets
started.
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