Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-23
PRESIDENT STEVENSON GIVES
OUT INTERVIEWS ON PLANS
AT ELDoRA.
TRYING NOW TO SOLVE
RlGHT-oF-WAY PROBLEM
Now Seeking to Build to Reach Water
loo and Eldora From Marshalltown,
and Still Keep Distances Equaized
to Successfully Compete With Steam
Roads For Freight.

Andrew Stevenson, of Chicago, presi-
dent of the Iowa railroad, accompanied
by j. w. ellis and John H. Mcbride,
the latter Philadelphia capitalist,
spent Tuesday in Eldora looking after
matters of business pertaining to the
new interurhan between Waterloo and
Eldora, which is now proposed to be
built via this city
Mr.. Stevenson ard the promoters
favor the Marshalltown route providing
the right-of-way matters can be sue
cessfully adjusted Mr. Stevenson gave
lication to the Eldora Herald, in which
he outlines the plans of the company
as far as is possible to make them pub
lie al the present time. Mr.. Steven
sons statement follows:
The efforts of the company are now
being conferred on the construction of
the line between Waterloo, Eldora, and
Marshalltown. We have now practi-
cally decided upon the line between Ell
dora and Waterloo and the building of
the line north from Marshalltown to
connect with the east and west line is
giving US the most concern at present.
The problem now is to build so as to
reach Waterloo and Eldora from Mar
shalltown and still keep within the
thirty mile radius between Marshall-
town and Eldora and the fifty mile
radius between Marshalltown and
Waterloo so as to compete in freight
rates with the Iowa Central and the
Great Western between the two towns
1t is probable the line will be built thru
Conrad, altho that town is badly To-
Gated with reference to short line
between all three towns.
Want to Know Sentiment.
The line from Marshalltown will not
run thru Ivester, but will be situated
farther east or about six miles west OF
Grundy Center. No surveys will be
made of the Marshalltown line until
the company finds out the sentiment
of the people along the proposed route
and secures fair consideration from
them. In other words, the right-of-
way must be practically secured before
| the company will even run a survey
They will profit by past experience
and not be held up even if they hav'
to change the location Of the line. From
Eldora to Grundy Center the right-of
way has been secured and also a larg
part OF the way to Waterloo.
Connect With st. P. e. D.
From Eldora the company has part.
I ly secured the right of way west to thu
town of Sherman, where the road viii
connect with the St Paul & De!
Moines, or Iowa Falls line. From ther'
the line runs southwest to Radcliffe
Story City and Ames, where the roae
! joins the Fort Dodge, Des Moines ant
Southern electric line which gives i
/ entrance into Des Moines.
Recently the F't. Dodge line has Sc
cured control of the Crooked Creel
road and will electrify and complete i
into Webster City. From Webster Cit,
4 to Sherman is a distance of twenty
four miles, and line between thos
two points is one of the possibilities o
the future which would give Eldor;
and all on the line direct connection
with Fl. Dodge.
Equal Advantages in Marshalltown.
For the present the Perry line be
yond Boone is up in the air because 0
the impossibility of the company t
make arrangements with the North
western road to get the use of tn
practically abandoned line of that roa
from Boone to Moingona crossing tn
Des Moines river The mileage, how
ever, between those points is abou
equal to the distance of the propose
line to Marshalltown, and laying it t
that city will give the road advantag e
equal to the line proposed into Perry
The Herald adds:
Mr. Stevenson would not state a
what date construction operation
would begin. 1t is probable, howeve
that as soon as the right of-way t
Marshalltown can be secured that tn
contracts will be let The increase
activity on the part of the compan
and the fact that their agents al
working on the right-of- way indicate
that the project will be pushed at ono
and that the road will be built in tin
SO that they will not have to sacrific
and of the franchises granted.
Mr.. Stevenson and Mr.. ellis al
driving over the right-of-way fro
Radcliffe to Waterloo to show the pre-
posed line to Mr.. Mcbride, who tn,
far is immensely pleased with the gu
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