Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1905-05-04
g. NV. Ry. BRIDGE
The Place for 1t Is at Forest City.

We give our readers the benefit
OF the following, from the Redfield
Press, as a matter of newspaper
gossip. We do not agree with the
idea that the North Western will
build up the river from Bonestecl
us an offset to the Milwaukee's OK
tension westward, for the reason
that that plan would only give ii
Sioux City and Omaha business.
whereas the extension of the road
from either Pierre or Forest CITY
would make it tributary to all the
great cities of the Northwest. as
Aberdeen, Sioux Falls. st. Paul.
Duluth and Milwaukee, in addition
to Sioux City and Chicago.
And as for crossing ut Pierre.
the reader should draw his own
conclusions, when it is a wellknown
fact that Il bridge there would have
to be over I mile long, costing up
wards of two million dollars. while
at Forest City it would only be
about half Il mile long and not cost
over half Il million.
We think it is another we'll es-
tablished fact that the North West
ern company has been engaged at
estimates on the cost of a bridge
at Forest City as we'll at Pierre for
the past three years or longer.
Following is the extract from
the Redfeld Press:
"Mr. Jumper of Aberdeen in
the News of that city talks as SEN
sibly as anyone. He says:
"Gen. S. H. Jumper, on his re-
turn from Minneapolis last week,
gave to a representative of the
News IN interview, in which he
gave the opinion of some promi-
nent financiers of that place in re-
gard to the railroad extensions that
are to be built in South Dakota
this year. He haa q long talk
with u banker who is largely inter
ested in the MilwaukSe's finances.
This banker claimed to have a tip
from the inside, and Gen. Jumper
quotes him as follows:
According to an agreement
between the Milwaukee and North
Western roads, the former will
build this summer just sev%entyone
miles into the cattle country west
of Chamberlain. The North Yves
tern will build from Pierre west a
parallel road thirtyone miles long,
which, because of the curve in the
Missouri, will end at a terminus di-
rectly north and in Il straight line
with that of the Milwaukee termi-
nus. This will give each company
an equal show in the development
of the new cattle country.
"sThe material of the new
bridge across the river at Cham
berlain will be taken from the pres
ent bridge of the company across
the Mississippi river at Savannah
Ill where a new 50, OOO, 900 struc-
ture will be built. When the line
is built to the Pacific coast it will
go thru Eyarts and not Chamber
lain. OF this we are sure.
"'The Great Northern. in the
opinion Of us Minneapolitans who
are identified with financial mat
ters, will build to Faulkton this
summer anyway and perhaps to
Pierre. It is very pleasing to us
to see that all Of these extensions
are to be of the greatest benefit to
Aberdeen, for Aberdeep's CONNER
cial and material interests are
identical with ours. This year will
be an important one in tho. devel-
opment of South Dakota"
The (Redfeld) Press comments
on the above as follows:
1.-THE doubtful part of the above
is the North. Western extension
from Pierre. That road can reach
the territory. that is settling cheap
or from Bonesteel. We doubt also
the Great Northern extension to
Faulkton. but hope it will CO."
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