Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-12-22
NAY GIT A NEW ROAD
Fort Dodge Has Prospects of Sc
curing xtension otthe New
ton 4 Northwestern
OFFICIALS ARE INVESTIGATING
President Lorins Gives Much EnSour-
ascment and Says Road Will Be
Built If the City Docs Its Part-No
Cash Bonus Wanted-Land Interests
requested.
euial to Times Republican
nsaa. sted.

special to Times Republican
Fort Dodge, Dec. 22.--trhere is q
probability that Fort Dodge will get
d new railroad by means of an extern
SION oi the Newton d Northwestern
from Boone to this city. The Messen-
ger in making this announcement says:
The plan OF the company's officials
so Tar as they know them, has been
outlined to The Messenger in conf
dence, but publication ol ali the facts
is forbidden at this time.
President Homer Loring, of the
Newton 81 Northwestern company has
made several visits to hort Dodge OF
lake, accompanied by General Manager
Blake, the freight officials, and CIVIL
engineer of the company. Mr.. Loring
alone of the officials was here yester-
day, and left on the Chicago limited
last night for Boston to spend Christ
mss ait home.
The Newton & Northwestern rail-
way was promoted by Hamilton
Browne. The road was built by Browne
and his associates in the coal mining
business at Fraser principally to give
them a good outlet for their coal The
road runs from Newton, on the main
Moines through Boone and Gowrie to
Rockwell City. 1t connects with the
Iowa Central and Rock Island at New
ton, with the Chicago, Milwaukee & St
Paul at Cambridge, Boone and Rock
we'll City, with the Northwestern at
Kelley, Boone, and Gowrie, with the
M. & st. l.. at Fraser Junction and at
Gowrie. 1t has recently built into Col
fax where it connects with the DeS
Moines interurban.
Hamilton Browne Out.
A year ago the management OF the
Newton & Northwestern railroad, and
the Fraser coal mines passed into the
hands of the people who really owned
the properties-Boston capitalists rep
resented by s. T. Loring & Son. and
Fl. w. Poor & Company which are
both Boston firms. Mr.. Browne was
deposed and no longer has any con-
nection with either the railway or
mining company Homer Loring was
elected president, and he is the lead
ing spirit In the coterie of officials
who have been quartered at the
Crawford hotel large portion of the
time for two weeks past, while they
looked over the possibilities of Fort
Dodge as a terminus for their COM
pany. Mr. Loring says after taking
this close view that Fort Dodge is a
good town and they want to build their
railway in here If the town wants them
to.
The Newton & Northwestern has
had in view the building of their road
on to Sioux City, having gone so far
as to have a survey made of the pro-
posed route, but after looking into
the shipping figures of the two cities
the company thinks Fort Dodge orig
mates more freight than Sioux City
does and they want to get portion of
it onto their tracks.
Options have been taken on GER
tain property that would be needed If
the railroad builds into Fort Dodge,
but there will have to be much other
property secured If the extension is
made and on the terms that it can be
secured hinges the whole proposition.
Mr. Loring said.
President Loring Talks.
I'VE like Fort Dodge and want to
build our road here. We want no
money bonus from your city, but we
need help in the way of certain con-
cessions which will be asked for later
when we have investigated further in
to the legal phases of the question.
We expect to pay a fair price for
what we get, but we will refuse to be
"held-up' in single case