The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-11-06
MILWAUKEE THROUGH HERE.
Report That Road is Planning Line
Out from Omaha

Omaha Bee: The Milwaukee rail.
road is planning n new line from
Omaha to join with its PaCnic north
west extension, which is now being
built When the Milwaukee cXten.
sion is completed that road will have
one of the strong transcOntinental
lines across the continent, but Omaha
is not on the direct line from the coast
to Chicago and will not derive the
benefit it should. Sioux City and Min
ncapolis and St Paul are now so stu
atcd that they will he better able to
sell to the new territory, and also to
be the market places for the products
of that portion of the country.
The only way at present for the live
stock and grain from the vast terri.
tory tapped by the Milwaukee to
reach Omaha would be to haul it back
from Manila, la, which would be al
most prohibitive. TO place Omaha,
the market town, on the main line of
the Milwaukee from the coast to chi
cagO is now the plan of the officials of
that road.
Just where the line will be built
from Omaha is not announced, but it
Is thought it will run in northwest
erly direction to meet the Milwaukee
in South Dakota.
The Milwaukee line between Omaha
and Chicago is one of the grear freight
carrying lines of the country and she
plan to make that line the east outlet
of the Pacific coast extension is most
feasible. The Milwaukee is not only
planning on getting its share of the
freight from the Orient, but it also
traverses a rich territory which will
yearly yield thousands of cars of grain
and cattle. Omaha is the established
market town for these products and
1t is the most natural thing in the
world for the Milwaukee to want to
be able to place the products of the
farms and ranches of its new country
into the leading market town in the
west a
That a line through Omaha from
the northwest would be a line OF
heavy traffic is shown by the BurlmG
tons northwest line to Billings, where
it unites with the Northern Pacific. At
Billings the Burlington takes what
freight the Northern Pacific wants to
divert in this direction, rather than to
send via St. Paul, and still the Bur
lington last fall had more business
than it could handle In fact, the Dusi-
ness of the Burlington line 20 the
northwest is so heavy that it is now
building a second line to be able to
handle the enormous business which
works its way from the Pacific north
west to the Missouri valley.
1t is but natural, then, that the Mil
waukee, which will have line Of itG
own from the coast, will want a line
into the Missouri valley to handle the
lumber and grain and live stock and
minerals which will come this way.
The Milwaukee extension is being
rapidly pushed to the coast ana did
not let up during the hard times which |
stopped most railroad building The |
directors and builders of the new line |
mad provided ample funds for the new |
line before the financial troubles Of |
last fall so that the work continued |
uninterrupted all last winter AMI his
summer. The Milwaukee road IS said
to have plenty of money back Ut it, so
that If the directors should decide to
build the new line to Sioux City, or
even to South Dakota, it is not LhougEt
they would experience any difficulty
in raising the funds.