Custer weekly chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, S.D.) 1890-1931, 1905-05-27
MILWAUKEE's EXTENSION.
Route Through the Black Hills has Been
Mapped out

Mapped out
Sioux City Tribune Following the
announcement Of President a. J. Earl
ing, Of the Milwaukee and St. Paul rail
road that the Chamberlain line will be
extended west to the Pacific coast with
the least possible delay, maps showing
the proposed route to the Black Hills
country were received in Sioux City to-
day.
The route will be almost identical
with that given in The Tribune last ear
and outlined recently by Harry f. Hun
ter, immigration agent 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 river valley to a point
directly north of the dividing line along
between the Rosebud and Pine Ridge
Indian reservations. From this point it
will go almost due northwest to Rapid
City, S. D., and crossing the Wyoming
line north of Deadwood.
The first new station of any signif-
| canoe after the new Milwaukee and St.
Paul leaves Oscoma will be Rapid City
Junction, a point on the White river
about ninety-fye miles west Of the Mis-.
souri, rivor. The new map shows this to
be the junction point Of the new Aber-
| deen-Pierre extension of the Great
Northern which an unconfrmed rumor
says will be built this year.
The new Pacific coast line of the Mil.
waukee 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 and Northwestern
road, now in course of construction be
tween Rapid City and the coal fields o
Wyoming, has been said to be Burl
ington enterprise since it was started
but it is now stated that this line will bt
eventually absorbed by the Milwaukee
and st. Paul. Inside information has i
that President Earling is especially anx
ious to get into the coal fields of Wyom
ing, just west Of Mystic, S. D., and nortl
of Newcastle, Wyo.
The Billings line of the Burlington al
ready taps these fields andi is though
improbable that the Burlington woulC
build another branch west from Mystic
Should this Missouri River and North
western road become a part Of the Mil
wsukee and st. Paul system, it will fur
nish direct road through the mountain
passes for the coast line, and in tha
event it would pass south Of Deadwood
No proposed line west ofEvarts has evel
been shown on a Milwaukee and st
Paul map.
The Missouri River and Northwestern
railway now has 800 men at work on it,
line from Rapid City to the Wyoming
coal fields, and the work is being pushed
simultaneously with this construction
work the Milwaukee and ST. Paul road i,
building west from Chamberlain through
Lyman county. The roads may meet in
Rapid City.
This line would save nearly 800 mile,
from Chicago to the Pacific coast, anc
officials of the Missouri River and North
ern do not deny that their road will be-
come part of the Milwaukee and St
Paul coast line.
This will give the Milwaukee and st
Paul line through the richest Of South
Dakota mineral lands, late estimate O
the resources of which places the value
of unmined gold alone at 81 900 900, 900
The area of fruit and cereal land is sale
to be over 10000 900 acres, and tho Goa
deposits S50,00O0O0. 1t is further ssti
mated that there is an abundant supply
of water on hand, to provide by irriga
ton for the crops of 100000 acres o
land.