The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1904-11-04
MILWAUKEE TO COAST
Plans OF the Milwaukee Being DIS
closed From New York Sources
Give Good Credence.

There has been more or less talk
about the extension of the Chicago.
Milwaukee X st. Paul railroads. ex-
tension through the Black Hills
country. and on to the Pacific coast.
III has been the policy of the Pierre
supporting papers to sneer at the
proposed extension simply because of
the INJURY that would result to
Pierre in her capital campaign.
They have been making h~erculean
efforts to make it appear that it was
impossible for the company to build
and AVE frequently quoted the
BOARD OF directors as having Officially
denied the possibility OF extending.
The article is published i'm the Min
neapolis Journal of the 9th, and the
following is taken from it as it relates
to the South Dakota portion of the
road:
New York. Oct. 49, From in
formation believed to be Trustworthy
it is learned that the Chicago. Mil
%aukee e. st. Paul Railroad company
has two distinct plans to reach the
Pacific coast, n to reach the north
ern parts and the other to.reach San
Francisco. Three years is the time
that is set for the completion OF both
lines, and the directors of the system
believe that within that time the
Milwaukee trains will enter Seattle.
Portland and Sau Francisco.
"Details are as yet incomplete. and
will certainly remain so for some
months at least. The management
has received reports from the heads
OF surveying corps, has i'm fact, been
receiving such reports from twenty
or thirty men for more than a year,
but the result OF all this reporting
has net yet been arrived at. The
reports 20 first to the general man
ayers office, later to the office OF the
president, then to the executive
committee of the company. and last
OF all the board Of directors. lit is
stated that the board of directors has
not yet taken cogrizance Of any re.
ports. BY the time the matter
comes before the board it will he i'm
shape TO be put in execution. In all
probability the board will dispose or
1T in one meeting Of an hour or two.
All the selections of routes, esrim-
ates of costs, decision as to weight
OF rails, nature of track in fact all
The necessary detials-will he prac-
tically settled before the board of
directors officially hears of the pro-
lect at all.
Nevertheless the general outline of
the scheme is pretty we'll understood
in official circles. The plan contem-
plates the building OF one entirely
new line from a point i'm South Da-
kota-probably Chamherlain-through
Wyoming. Idaho and Oregon to the
north Pacific, and also the building
Ola new spur line to run from north
east to southwest toward Denver,
reaching the latter city and connect
ing with the Mofatt line.
The route, as originally laid down
by the projectors Of the northwest
crn route. contemplated the extern
sion OF the Sioux City branch from
Platte, S. D., westward crossing the
Missouri river below the confluence
with the White river, and the fol-
lowing OF The White river valley on
The south shore some $50 miles due
west. crossing the state line OF South
Dakota south of the Black Hills.
The first surveys carried the line to
pass near the meeting of the Big
Horn and Laramie ranges. in central
wyoming. At this point great diff
culties we've met. but the line was
surveyed and reports on it were
turned into the office.