The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1905-06-16
TO PACIFIC COAST
The objective Point That the st Paul
Road Is Heading For


The following statement from Il
civil engineer of wide personal inform
alton, appeared in the Minneapolis
Tribune of June 4, and may be con-
sidcred as very authentic at the pres
ent time:
j. B. Sudderman, civil engineer Of
Winnipeg, who has been extensively
employed in surveying work for Can
adian railways for number Of years,
is a guest at the West hotel.
Mr.. Sudderman, who has just left
the Dakotas, vouchsafes the positive
information that the Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul railway not only
intends to build to the coast, but that
the gigantic work is already under
way and being pushed with all possl-
ble haste.
Mr.. Sudderman witnessed the great
activity of the Milwaukee at Cham
berlain, S. d., where the first section
of the new transcontinental line is
being constructed TO the Black Hills,
a work which was undertaken some
weeks ago.
81 am amazed that any one should
longer question the intentions of the
Milwaukee to invade the coast coun-
try" said Mr.. Sudderman. "OMcial
announcement was made recently by
President Earling regarding the con-
struction OF a line from Chamberlain
and Evarts, although he did not dis
close the colossal plans of the company
regarding the coast proposition, But
it as certain as anything in this world
can be that the Milwaukee will reach
the coast as soon as its lines can be
run over the route which has been
selected for it.
GAS several routes were surveyed, l
am unable to say which one will be
followed, but the idea that any ques-
ltion remains of the Mllwaukee's clear
purpose is ridiculous. In the engineer :
ing department of the entire road the
Pacific coast extension isa matter Of
common knowledge, and it is aston
ishing that people have not yet accept
ed the positive evidence Of the fact.
'There are imperative reasons why
the Milwaukee must build to the
coast. With the Great Northern,
Northern Pacific and Burlington
systems directly controlled by j. j.
Hill, it must build the coast line or
see its prestige as a Western property
disappear.
"Anyone living in North and South
Dakota will understand how vitality
important it is for the Milwaukee to
get to the Western seaboard. In form
er years, before the development of
transcontinenta] business, the roads
invading the western country to the
extent the Milwaukee does at present
had an equal show. Now all this is
changed. The traffic of the west has
increased beyond the dreams of the
railway promoters of a few years ago,
and naturally the through lines get
the business.
cit is as necessary for the Mil
waukee to build through as it would
; for a street railway line to reach i'm
I portant terminal points made by com
| petitors. To remain stationery would
be the same as the street railway to
( operate part of a line in a district oc
, cupied by through lines.
",The company will develop the i'm
5 mense coal and oil lands of Wyoming
in its scheme of developments, ant
5 will thread a rich country all the dis
: tance wherever possible. Wall street
? thoroughly understands that the line
S is beng built, but the people of Tho
northwest are not yet satisfied. Thi
strikes me as peculiar as Minneapolis
and St. Paul will be greatly benefited
bv ha wing another line connecting I'll /,
Twin cities and tie Pacific coast
= There is no competition at present, al
0 anyone must know who is at all ia
4 miliar with rairoading."