The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-04-05
ROAD WILL HELP
LOCAL JOBBERS
MINNEAPOLIS AND ST LOUIS
ROAD OPENS NEW COUNTRY.
wholesalers Will Be Given Direct Con-
nection with Magnificent Stretch Of
Farming Land Which Will Support
Vast Population-Line Will Be FIRST
Glass in Every Respect.

With the turning Of grazing coun-
try into rich farming territory, by
the completion Of the new western ex-
tension of the Minneapolis & st. Louis
road, Minneapolis wholesale merchants
and manufacturers will receive rich
heritage. The new line will run $50
miles thru a magnificent farming dis
ter than that which the competitors Of
the St. Louis line, the North Western
and the Milwaukee, will penetrate.
The wholesale merchants will be in
terested to know that in addition to
the building Of competitive centers al.
ready established as stations on the
other lines, the st. Louis will open up
at least twenty new towns.
Everything First Glass.
The Minnesota, Dakota & Pacific
Railway company, as the extension is
known, will be built by the Winston
Brothers company of Minneapolis. The,
extent of their contract may be fig
ured on the estimate that 100000 yards
Of dirt, must be moved. Work has al.
track will follow from the east end.
The line is to be laid with seventy
pound steel, 10 pounds heavier than
that now used in the state. It will be
low grade line, and will be after the
highest type of modern railroad build
ing: =,
be the first fifty miles. The land rolls
heavilys out of the Dakota hills into the
James river valley, which is gently roll
Altho definite information is not OBJ
| tainable as to the exact line laid out
for the extension, it will run northwest
erly from WATERFOWL, crossing the Mil
waukee road at Bradley, and the North
Western at Condo, then northwesterly
| thru Aberdeen and Leola into McPher-
son county. -.
| A branch will leave the line near
| Condo and will run westerly about one
hundred miles to the Missouri river at
LIE Beau.
It is reported by those who have ex-
amined and who live in the territory to
turai country without a particle of
waste land. It is all good soil and
there is plenty Of it.
The land will produce wheat and flax
and record for contrasting has beer
made by the inhabitants.
Line Well Equipped.
The St. Louis road, with it's new
equipment, will be well able to handle
the traffic of the new line. It has beer
SAID CldC Inc SySGCW t1S UCGtCl OHu1PPCS
than any other line for motive power
as we'll as for cars. The company has
Just ordered for delivery before July
1 LOO freight cars, fifteen chair ant
combination cars and coaches and fit
teen locomotives.
| Completion of the st. Louis extension
will probably revive lie Beau. In earl.
days it was an extensive place and tn
i point where goods were landed to b
taken across the river when Bowdl
was the terminus Of the road. Afte
the Milwaukee finished it's line to Ev
arts, LIE Beau faded away, as there wa
no further use for it. It is reporte,
from the west that the Milwaukee coas
extension may not cross the river. a
Evarts. If SO, it is likely that Evart
will take the place about to be vacated
by LIE Beau.
Much of the business which the new
! line will produce belongs rightfully t
Minneapolis. It's Wholesale firms, manu-
facturers and distributing houses will
supply the homeseekers in the new ter
ritory with farming implements, build
ing material and household supplies, AM
it's grain and commission firms will han
die the products Of the new territory.