The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1908-08-21

this week. There is probability
| and Randolph, further south along
the route. to finish up a large amount
OF needed grading and filling in to be
done there. They have also in various
places been raising part OF the
track In the vicinity of Blue Rapids
Following the announcement that the
Union Pacific Railroad company il
planning to remove its division head
quarters from Beatrice. Neb.. to this
city (Marysvillel. interest in the
cutoff has revived to a large extent
In this city.
All Marysville is anxiously await
ing the next move Of the railroad
company and 1t is expected that work
on the T. & N. W., will early be re-
sumed.
1t has for some little time been I'M
derstood here that the Union Pacific
railroad. the owners of the T. & N.
W.. Is seeking to secure the tract of
Of Wheeler's addition to their tracks
and also that they had secured the
greater part of the properties from
seventh street west to their tracks
and as far north as the stock yards.
but Just what was to be the ultimate
move of the company has had to be
conjecture.
But now 1t is not 30.
1t has gone forth that the division
Is to be located at this point and the
acquisition of these properties will be
used for railroad purposes.
1t Is also known facts that over so
per cent of the work on the T. & N.
W. has been completed: that the big
ditch connecting Cottonwood creek with
Spring creek just east of the junction
or the T. & N. w. with the ST. Joseph
& Grand Island near Garden three
miles east Of Marysville, has been
widened and deepened; that material
for the laying Of the track has been
distributed along the route from To-
peka to Frankfort: that there is also
such material here.
Following the completion Of the work
on the big ditch. the contractor, c. w.
HUNDRED. was assigned to work along
the route of the Union Pacific at Blue
Rapids. This was evidently done for
at least two reasons The one, that
the present tracks of the Union Pa
cif1c would be put in shape to continue
handling the traffic of the company
be completed and ready to handle the
through line business. The other, that
until such time as the company was
ready to resume the construction of
the T. G. N. w. 1t would have close at
hand a working force to put on imme-
diately when such move should be be-
gun.
1t is understood among railroad men
that the Union Pacific is going to move
it's tracks in the vicinity of Holmes
vile. Neb.. to higher ground few rods
distant and for this work the grade
stakes have already been set and work
on this improvement Is expected to
commence at any time. 1t is also cur
rent opinion that the work on the COM
pletion of the T. & N w. will be COM
menced by October 1.
Rumor has 1t that heavy steel is to
be laid along the route of the st. JOS
eph G. Grand Island from Hanover,
Kan, to Grand Island. Neb.
Just what these moves would indi-
cate is hard for one not within the in
ner circle to tell, but with these two
companies working in harmony one
with another and their interests to
great extent being paramount 1t would
appear that they are both preparing
for the establishing of the through
main line service and may possibly use
their tracks both through via Omaha
and Grand Island, Neb., to reach the
coast.
With the establishment Of the Union |
Pacific division here 1t will naturally |
follow that the st. Joseph & Grand Is
land railroad will make a like move. |
This is obvious. Following this the es-
Establishment here of their machine
shops will put them in excellent shape |
for the handling Of all trains over their |
trunk line. |
Marysvllle being semi-distant from
the terminals of this branch of the !
Union Pacific and also of the ST. JOS |
eph & Grand Island it will be of much |
more benefit to both roads for a con- |
junction of their divisions and shops
than to maintain two such separate
plants The site is here, the facilities
at hand and everything points to this |
move. |
What will such a move mean to |
Marysville?
It will mean that Marysville will take |
on a healthy growth and become one
of the best and busiest towns along |
the route. 1t win mean the location |
here of two or three hundred families
and pay roll running all the way from
$4,000 to $4,000 per month.