The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1905-08-18
Railroad News.

we buOuIQ say Lnere was. III you
have not heard it listen. We have
it on the best of authority that the
New York Central will build here in
about three months. They have
purchased the court house for 8
round house and the Floorman block
for water tank. Henry Birn-
baum has already commenced lining
the same with good substant tial
copper lining and will take the tin
off the roof and let her fill up. The
company feels especially pleased
over the tact that the water will
not have to be carried to fill the
enormous tank-the rain will do it
for them.
Then have you heard what Mr..
Crouch is doing? No! Well he is
in it now for sure. His plans he
tells US on the quiet are completely
changed. Last week he sold Canyon
Lake to the Wabash Company and
they start Immediately to build toit
from Kalamazoo. The reason for
purchasing this property is that
they failed in Kalamazoo to find soft
water enough to enable their en-
ployees to keep their faces clean and
so want the Lake. Now let US not
raise howl about the spoilation of
the beauties OF nature but let this
sale 20 on. They will also erect a
power plant there that will generate
something over one million horse
power per minute and this will be
sufficient to light up Tom Sweeney's
contemplated Wholesale house.
How the papers are behind. You
have not heard of Sweeney's new
wholesale house? Mr.. Congdon and
Mr.. Sweeney last week signed
articles for the erection of a whole
sale house here for hardware that is
q peach. Mr.. Sweeney says they
are going to supply the whole west.
eru country after the first of Janu.
ary? The building will be nine
thousand and fifty.four feet long.
one hundred and sixty three thous
and feet wide and one foot high
But there, we were going to tell the
railroad news and got off on the
towns improvements, so we will ge'
back to the subject.
The Burlington is coming also
Last week they bought the Hol,
Terror mine at Keystone and ar,
going to move 1t here, extending
! their track to this place at once.
| IT,. Grier, of Lead, is not to b.
outdone so be is going to run the Ft
Pierre road down from Piedmont
work to commence at once. Th,
new mill that was contemplated vii
never be built at Deadwood. 1
comes here and don t you forget it
The Great Northern already ha
secretely laid track almost to Her
mosa on their way here from Oskost
While coming from Sioux City tn
writer saw some of the work bu
kept 1t TO himself until this momen,
The Milwaukee is trying to play
funny joke on the Northwestern. s
they have doubled their trail an
sre building another track back
Chamberlain from the point of thei
extension west. The North wester
is not in the least taken back b
this action for it is known that th
is simply a clever scheme to bull
> this track then carefully pick it U
and turn it this way by the aid of
few more Italians and thereby ha,
| q track just this side of Brennan il
8 stead Of a double one as they no
Z say they will have.
Mr.. Frank McMahon was q
: preached as to his holdings
: Northwestern stock and asked VIII
9 he contemplated doing with the e:
tension he had in view. He W
u free to talk and said in part, "V
g do not wish to have too much nuto
> iety in the matter, but you eau a
y nounce that we will build fro
- Omaha. We already have one Ii
% that way but you newspaper m.
't seem to think we need another,
'e / have decided to give you anoth
y one. Last week saw In the Uni
~ 8 plan for areal building that lis f
" and we will put it into effect. II
ae will be the first OF the kind ever
~ tempted in this country and il t
~ ~ rain will stop long enough for us
ut get wrok started we will soon ha
I'd the double line in operation
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