Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1906-08-23
RAILROAD NEWS.
A North and South Road
Through the State -
Be Built.
The Matter is Exciting Much
Comment iii Railroad
Circles.

Articles of incorporation were filed
with the secretary Of state Monday for
the Sioux City, Pierre & Northwestern
railroad. with headquarters at Huron
and q branch; office at Minneapolis.
The capital stock is 100000. Incor,
porators: A. S. King, E. NJ. Thompson,
G. H. borden, Minneapolis; Philip
Lawrence, Marion Hoke, Huron. The
proposed line is to run from Sioux City
to Pierre through the counties Of Union,
Clay, Yankton, Hutchinson. Douglas,
Dawson, Aurora, Brule, Buffalo, Hyde,
Hand, Beadle, Kingsbury, and Brook.
ings to the state line and on to Mime
apolis. A branch line is provided for
extending north and south from Sioux
City through the counties of Union,
Lincoln aud Minnehaha to Sioux Falls.
sThe estimated cosuof the line is placed
at $4,000. Its estimated length is six
hundred miles.
Nobody seems to know what Is back
Of this scheme. It may be another
paper road, and again, it may be bona
fide enterprise. backed by one of the
big systems like the Illinois central.
? More than likely this road is behind it
if it is a go. Perhaps, however, it may
be Jim Hill deal.
Anent this same subject of north
and south road east and parallel to the
Missouri river, the Sioux City Journal
of recent date has the following com.
ment:
That the Dakota Midland railroad,
surveyed from Sioux City northwest to
Campbell county, South Dakota, is
backed BY the Chicago & Northwestern
road Is the rumor given circulation in
the latest number sof the Railroad Ga
zette, Of New York.
The Gazette says: "a reason for be
lieving that this ID . Northwestern pro.
ject is the fact that the Dakota Mid
land route would give the Northwestern
a shorter line from South Dakota into
Sioux City and Omaha than at present.
With the completion of the Rapid City
extension the Black Hills traffic of the
Northwestern instead of turning to the
southwark before. coming east will be
able to come directly east through
Pierre, and this would be reason for
improving the connections from Pierre
eastward"
This rum0r adds q tifth road to those
which have been suspected of backing
the Midland, the others being the Great
Northern. the Milwaukee, the Illinois
Central and the Canadian Pacific. The
matter is attracting attention in all the
eastern and Chicago railroad and com.
mercial publications.. At Sioux City
the interest continues great, although
the uncertainty Of che situation has
made it something of joke.
A Chicago special gives out the fol-
lowing infor nation:
AuO 0uuoiUHGb nave u0clO0Q 70
throw down the gauntlet to the Hill and
Hartman systems aud invade the terri
tory that hitherto has been considered
by these two magnates to be exclusively
their own.
\ Announcement was made today that
The Chicago & Northwestern railroad
had called meeting Of the stockhold.
ers and voting bondhoiders for October
Is to authorize an increase Of 100 pei
cent Chicago railroad officials say this
can have but one meaning the extern.
sion of the Northwestern system to the
Pacific coast from Lander, Wyoming
the present terminus Of the Vanderbilt
system.
Within an hour after tho news con.
corning the Pacific coast extension OF
che Northwestern had been made BY
the Milwaukee road Of an issue Of $3.50.
100000 Of common stock to be used In
the Pacific coast extension Of that road
This issue was authorized several ysars
ago
Local News Notes.
The sad news 10 received from Hunts,
vile, Ala, thst Mrs. John Connors, nse
Miss Emma Wells, died the 18th inst.