The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1905-05-26
t1t EH5EUH Will
CROSS THE HILLS
Maps of the Milwaukee and ST..
Paul Line Show 1t Will Run
North OF Deadwood.
0 S
This Win Be Done at Rapid City,,
Now Thought Missouri River
and Northwestern Is Not
a Burlington Project.

President A. j.. Earring, of the Mil
waukee and ST. Paul railroad that the
Chamberlain line will be extended west
to the Pacific coast with the least pos
sible delay, maps showing the proposed
route to the Black Hills country We're
received in Sioux City today.
The route will be almost identical
with that given in The Tribune last
year and outlined recently by Harry
F. Hunter. immigration agent of the
Milwaukee and ST. Paul railroad in The
Tribune.
Running in a northwesterly direction
from Chamberlain and Oacoma, the
new. road, according to the new maps
at the Milwaukee and st. Paul offices,
will pass along the White rive valley
to a point directly north of the divid-
Ing line between the Rosebud and Pine
Ridge Indian reservations. From this
point it will go almost due northwest
to Rapid City, S. d., n crossing the
Wyoming line north of Deadwood.
Crossing the Black Hills.
The first rew station of any sig
| nifcance after the new Milwaukee and
st. Paul leaves Oacoma will be
Rapid City Junction, a point or the
White river about ninety-ive miles
west of the Missouri river. The new
maps show this to be the junction
point of the new Aberdeen-Pier-e ex-
tension of the Great Northern which
an unconfirmed rumor says will be
built this year.
The new Pacific coast line of the
Milwaukee and st. Paul railroad will
cross the Black Hills line OF the
Northwestern at Rapid City, and The
Burlington road north of Deadwood.
The Missouri River n Northwest
ern road, now in course of construction
between Rapid City and the coa fields
Of Wyoming, has been said to be a
Burlington enterprise since it was
started, but it is now stated that this
line will be eventually absorbed by the
Milwaukee and st. Paul. Inside infor-
nation has 1t that President Earring is
especially anxious to get into the coal
fields of Wyoming. just west of Mystic,
S. D., and north of Newcastle, Wyo.
The Billings line of the Burlington
already taps these fields 1t is
thought improbable that the Burling-
ton would build another branch west
from Mystic. Should his Missouri
River and Northwestern roa become
q part OF the Milwaukee and ST. Paul
system. it will furnish a direct road
through the mountain passes for the
coast line, and in that event it would
pass south of Deadwood. No proposed
line west of Evarts has ever been
shown on a Milwaukee and ST. Paul
map.
Three Hundred at Work.
The Missouri River and Northwest
ern railway now has 300 men at work
on its line from Rapid City to the
Wyoming coal fields, and the work is
being pushed. simultaneously with this
construction work the Milwaukee an,
st. Paul road is building west from
Chamberlain through Lyman county.
The roads may meet in Rapid City.
This line would save nearly 800 miles
from Chicago to ,ne Pacific coast, and
officials of the Missouri River and
Northern do not deny that their roa
Will become a part of the Milwaukee
n st. Paul coast line.
This will give the Milwaukee n st.
Paul a line through the richest of South
Dakota mineral lands, a late estimate
of the of which places the
value of unmined gold alone at $1,000,
10000. The area of fruit and cereal
land Is said to be over 2O.0 00, 600 acres,
md the coal deposits $4,000. 900. 1t is
further estimated that there is an
abundant supply of water on hand, to
provide by irrigation for the crops OF
100000 acres OF land.