Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-03-31
ROADS WILL BUILD
Ottumwa's Railroads Will Lay 214
Miles of Track This Year.
MUCH WORK TO Do IN THE STATE

2,135 Miles to Be Built During the
Year-Many New .Lines-Many Elk.
Enthusiastically Companies In
volved-Many Surveys Being Made.
Railroads in which Ottumwa is di.
rectly interested will build 214.3 miles
OF track within the. confines of the
state of Iowa this year The Burling-
ton will complete the extension begun
In 1902 between Oskaloosa and Tracy,
distance of twelve miles, the Mil
waukee will lay track from Muscatine
to Rutledge, 76.3 miles, and the Rock
Island will build from Eldon to Tren-
ton, Mo-, from Fort Dodge to Bows
and from Mallard to Emmetsburg,
total of 126 miles.
| All told 2,135.S miles of railroad con-
struchon are in view in Iowa this
| year. This includes O number of new
INES and the the extension of many
ola ones. There are no less than
twenty companies involved III the pro-
Jected construction.
one OF the most pretentious of the
new lines is one to be built from Du-
| y
| buque to Newton and which has been
surveyed, 140 miles in length. w. H.
Day is the president of the company,
which has paid for the survey.
The Des Moines Southern, which
Mr.. Cherry has said was projected to
| st. Joe and would say no more, is
projected to run to Manchester, Dick
inson county, Kan. Manchester is the
| junction of the northwestern lines of
nes Mn;na t,ra mS iU M;nt ~. ur r naoin
heI5 N Dns an ,n,oosh Wii,else', ulee en-
Ioa 100 ILL., n y, ' Shannnaaoh an ani 30, ~
sddi+ian, in. ~ 1 ~ ohoaii anu
Tho .aaols Is,nna aons+t;o, :,
olndes tba a;,rht,. ,s,;,os go, IIaa -
Trenton Mo tbs thirty-siv a,;Ias fro W
Bows to Fort Dodge. and ten miles
from Mallard to Emmetsbure. The
Spirit Lake extension is not included.
The list as published by the Railway
Age includes all the paper roads in adj
dition to the lines actually in sight
| this year, as follows:
Burlington G Western &C. B. & Q.)-
Oskaloosa to Tracy, Ia, IL miles I'M
der construction and three miles OF
track laid in 1902. D. d. Streeter, con
tractor. Chlcago. w. l.. breckenridge,
Y. ~, Chlcago.
| Cedar Falls & New Hartford-in-
corporated to build a revision OF the
| me OF the limos central from CEDAR
falis TO New hartford, Z miles.
lineage northwestern = sioux
Cl.y' Id, 10 CehterVllle, .. u, ABOUT 90
lni a y. y. Garter, Y. H., Sh!cago.
ohicaso, pupuque racllc-pu-
puque 10 loieoo' Id. y. II. Meyer sec
relay Dupuque' Ia.
q g Saacaso, hock Island q Iacl1 T.a..
Nh NJ ii en n9al Eluon' ID, " tlen.oh'
N NJ, ov tniirs, unu1l Ivy VI a.en'
ma,iatu " ninilletspu n,, d. 80 eo me- .;s
, 49, sui ~ cl,; - a. a. n.y. ~ o WY
- eai'' onieaeo'
chicago, milwaukee, q 81. raul
Muscatine to Rutledge, 1913 miles; un.
der construction. and twenty mics OF
track lald IN l9ol from Muscaune
west. Mcintosh Bros milwaukee
WIS, nave the contract Tor 80 miles
ana fnck q Johnson or davenport
nave the contract Tor ~ miles, u. j.
Whlttiemore, Z. Il. chicago.
| Chicago, Great Western-Fort Dodge
to Council Bluffs, 1913 miles; under con-
struction and track laid in 1902 from
Fort Dodge to Manning 62h miles,
leaving 66Ns to complete. Macarthur
Bros, Chicago, Winston Bros, Mime
apolis, Mimi, and Frankman Bros. and
Morris, contractors. Olewein to Way
! erly, 20 miles; under construction.
Winston Bros, contractors, Minneap-
oils. MINI. Junction near Fort Dodge
to Sioux City about 1S9 miles; survey
ed. John Marston. Jr., G. e. of con-
/ struction, Fort Dodge, F. R. Coates, c.
E., st. Paul, MINI.
Charlton yalley.-lncorporate to
build a line from Novinger, Mo-, to
/ Centeryille, As miles. W. G. Crimson,