Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-08-20
ROAD WILL Be READY
THOUGH ouIcksAND RETARDs
PROGRESS ON CUTOFF sue.
CESS is ASSURED.
JlHNr.
Superintendent Lass Says Trains Will
Be Running Over New Line by Sep.
TENDER if the Weather Continues
Favorable-The Burlington Cut Off.

Notwithstanding the fact that the
steam shovel has been miring in the
quick-sand at Cone, the Muscatine-
Rutledge extension of the Chicago, Mil
waukee and ST. Paul will be turned
over by the construction department
for traffic on schedule time-Sept. 1.
Superintendent Lass intends to meet
with the request of the officials and
turn over the road next month pro-
vided the present good weather con-
tinues for twelve more days. For the
last three days the workmen in the
sand pit have had trouble operating
the large steam shovel which loads
the sand trains at Cone. Quicksand
in the bottom of the pit has retarded
the moving of the big machine to a
new cut and work trains have been
standing idle for an hour at time
sometimes.
There are from ten to thirteen
trains running constantly distributing
the sand between Washington and
Rutledge. The first course has been
finished over the entire extension and
the second course completed eastward
fifteen miles beyond Washington.
There are nineteen crews in all at
work on the entire cutoff. Several
surfacing gangs are working west OF
here. A boarding train has been
sidetracked here. for these laborers,
The Western Union has four wires
strung from Titus Station east to
Muscatine and one wire through on
the short line. Washington and 9th
er stations along the line are being
supplied with tickets and other sup.
plies for the ticket office, freight Of
flee and baggage room.
Construction work is making bust
ness active in the yards here and all
along the cutoff Long work trains
pass every few minutes. More trains
pass through on the Milwaukee than
any other road at present. Freight
and passenger business will undoubt.
eddy be carried on in September as
planned sometime ago by the officials
Agent Shaw is busy getting ready for
the opening of business. He is of
the opinion the Southwestern Limit,
ed" will not be put on until DC.
tober.
BurIinston's Short Line.
Oskaloosa, Aug. 90 The G. B. &
O., officials are now engaged upon a
new time card which they expect tc
put into effect about the middle of the
next month when their Oskaloosa and
Tracy branch will be completed and
trains will run from Peoria, ILL.,, to Des
Moines via Oskaloosa instead of via
Ottumwa and Abba as heretofore. The
trains passing through here wrich
will be Railway Postofices
will undoubtedly be known as
trains and 10, the same as they are
now called. 1t is probable that the
new card will show No. 8 passing
through here toward Des Moines al
about o'clock p. M, leaving Burling
ton Immediately after the arrival Of
fast train No. IS on the main line from
the east which leaves Chicago at GLE
in the morning. Train No. 10 will pass
through here at about IL o'clock ant
making close connections at Burlington
with fast train No. 6 which arrives in
Chicago at 500 p. m.
Poorer Mail Service.
The passenger trains now running
between here and Burlington will be
abandoned, so it is now contemplated
and this being the case the Chicago and
eastern mails from here will not be al
well accommodated as they now areas
there will be no connection with the
fast mail trains Of the Burlington. The
r. P. o. clerks now running between
Burlington and Oskaloosa will probab
ly be changed to the run on the mair
line and known as the Burlington ano
Creston r. P. O.