Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1907-08-06
cREsc0 DEEPLY INTERESTED
What the ''Dan Patch Line" Will
Do for This Vicinity.

AS one of the points on the longest
Electric Interurban Line ever projected
and line that is now actually being
built, Cresco is certainly vitally
interested in the Minneapolis, Roches-
ter & Dubuque Traction Company, COM
monty spoken of as the Dan Patch
Air Line, !" said M. E. Harrison, person
al representative of President M. W..
Savage, when seen at the hotel Satur-
day last on special business trip to
Cresco in the interest of the Dan
Patch" line.
"Being vitally interested, it is only
right that the people of Cresco should
know something of the conditions and
prospects of the road The Dan Patch
Air Line" is more than a paper line.
1t is reality. I will tell you why:
'In the first place, Mr.. Savage has
never undertaken anything that has
failed. That is his reputation among
business men all over the country and
he cannot afford to begin now. He has
taken hold of this Interurban PROPOSE
ton; has secured the controlling inter-
ests, and states positively that the road
will be built and built quickly.
Secondly; The company has been
thoroughly re-organized and placed on
a practical business basis, the imagina-
tive promotion element has been elimi-
mated and some of Minnesota's leading
business and professional men are now
interested and have been elected to the
Board of Directors. These are men
whose names have always been con-
nected with successful undertakings.
The company has also secured the
services of the best engineers, and men
who have all their lives followed rail-
way construction as business.
Thirdly; Iowa and Minnesota are
woefully behind the times in the matter
of interurbans. This territory, one of
the richest that lies out of doors, is
simply waiting for Interurbans to make
| it without an equal. Its people appre-
ciate the value of the coming of the
'Dan Patch Air Line and are enthus-
iastically helping with the help that
counts
Lastly; The company is on sound
financial basis, has already graded
about seven miles of road bed out of
Minneapolis, and will have cars running
as far as the Minnesota River by the
time snow flies. -
How soon will the road be built into
Cresco?" asked the reporter.
'That depends on many things" re-
sponded Mr.. Harrison with a smile.
"Mr. Savage thinks it safe, however,
to predict that the Dan Patch Air
Line will be here by year from Janu-
ary. 1t is intended to build the long
bridge across the Minnesota River next
winter. Grading and building contracts
will be let and work all along the line
will be begun and rushed forward as
early as possible next spring.
'The company will waste no time in
getting here as the road opens up a
wonderfully rich country naturally trib-
utary to Dubuque, but which is now
practically inaccessible through lack OF
direct or any transportation, and that
all means business and ultimate
dividends.
tWill you carry freight as well as
passengers?D
Certainly, everything that the steam
roads haul now, only as has been proven
by Interurbans in the East, we can dc
it quicker, easier and more satisfactori-
ly. Not only will patrons be able to
take baggage with them, but there
will be freight cars, milk cars, fruit
cars, fresh meat cars, combination ex-
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