The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-07-18
City News
TWIN CITY DEAL
SCENTED AT ANOKA.
ROBBINS TROLLEY FRANCHISE
rs HELD UP.
Alderman Greenwood Suggests Delay to
Give Other Interests Chance to Enter
Field and Populace Suspects q Plot
Weeks Time Given to Fish or Gut
Bait.

Anoka is stirred over an attempt to
delay the plan of A. B. Robbins TO con-
meet that city with Minneapolis by
trolley. At the last meeting of the
council move for delay was sprung
by Alderman l.. j. Greenwald, who
said that other interests with plenty
Of money stand ready to make propo-
sition.
!, The scheme for delay is credited to
pany, which, it is said, has. a plan on
foot for an elaborate trolley extension
north Of Minneapolis and does not care
to see others enter the field. The towns.
action at once Unless the council
takes definite action at the meeting
Friday night a meeting of citizens, will
be called and formal demands made Of
Line in Prospect.
A. B. Robbins, representing the North
Side Street Railway company, owning
and operating the stub line to. Robbins
Of Anoka, the proposed line to be an
extension Of the Robbinsdale line. The
line will reach the villages Of Osseo and
Champlin in Hennepin county and
traverse a rich, well-settled farming
country. A mile or more Of line will
be built in Anoka and will be operated
between the center. Of the city and the
railroad stations Of the Great Northern
and Northern Pacific, about a mile from
the business section. The Robbins prop
osition calls for q franchise in the vii
It was believed that, the proposition
would be accepted at the last meeting
of the council, July 7, and public senti.
ment favored such action. At that time
Alderman Greenwood. asked that action
DO delayed, saying that other parties
were ready to make a proposition and
would report at the meeting July 81
The citizens are waiting for the report
and IT it means delay they will take
matters into their own hands. = -.
mix" Says the Company.
The new proposition is credited to the
Minneapolis Street Railway company
but the company denies that it has any
plans relative to Anoka. It is admitted
at Anoka that the company may not b,
working in the open, but it is also as
serted that the present plan comes from
the Twin City company thru certain O.
it's representatives.. It is pointed on
that the case is similar to those il
saltwater and Excelsior. As soon a
other interests with money prepared t.
enter the field, the rapid transit com
pany, tho it had refused to consider tn
propositions before, stepped in. It
believed that the company is now read
to extend to Anoka to prevent othe
interests securing 'foothold. ~
1t is also believed that Anoka is onl
point in the general plan that hs
been under consideration by the stree
railway company for some time. It
known that surveys, laid to have bee
, made by the street railway compan,
= Mississippi to St. Cloud. Mr.. Lowr
has an extensive place at Monticel]
above Elk River. The distance to S
: Cloud is sixty-fve miles. The COUNT
: Is we'll settled and there are MANY goo
towns that would support the line, IT..
! believed. ~
Power in Sight.
: Power Developments under way
n Fix River, Monticello, and Clearwat
0 it is estimated will produce 5000
! horsepower electrical energy. The on
IPoss1ble market for this energy is b
!ieved to be the street railway. III
the developments are under the dire
ton Of another company, it is reaso
+ able to believe that they are not undo
taken without the, positive assuran
Q keted. sf'' 49,
n If the street railway company max
y q, proposition to Anoka that guarantee
:, that work will be started at once q,
:. pushed to completion, it will probab
a be accepted, provided it does not
10 mand everything of Anoka in retu1
= Mr.. Robbins is well known in Ano'
Z and along the line and stands ready
Il pc gin owrk at once. If those opposi
"a him cannot show better propositi
q the taxpayers and citizens will dema:
that be accepted Much of the n,
essary steel has been purchased and t
f. North Side company with four cars
Gently purchased, will have suffice
n rolling stock to operate the line,
present, the North Side company lea.
II power from the Twin City company,