Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1910-08-04
new RAILWAY ASSURED
Dakota & Southern Line From
Watertown to Fargo is Now
Considered a Certainty.
WILL Be READY THIS FALL
Route Passes Through Webster,
and the New Line Will Open
One of the Best and Most
Productive Sections of
the Two DakOtas.

We learn from what we consider
reliable authority that the new north
and south railroad frora WATERFOWL to
Fargo, distance of two hundred miles,
is to be built this fall-in fact it will be
completed in time to move this seasons
crop. The survey has been completed,
plats, profiles and blue prints made,
town sites located, and the construc-
ton contract for the roadbed let.
The line--comes from WATERFOWL on
nearlylthe same route as did the Dakota
Central survey, crossing the C. M. &
st. P. tracks 140 feet east of the Fifth
street crossing, continuing north to
Raritan township, thence northeast to
Frank, thence north to point on Clear
Lake about two miles west of Huffman
in Marshall county. From there the
line will run in northerly direction to
Rutland, Perry and Scoville, thence
northeast to Fargo. The lire will enter
Day county at the southeast corner of
Egeland township, and will run through
or touch the following townships: Eye
land, Morton, Rusk, Webster, Raritan,
Liberty and Nutley. The plats for Day
, county were filed in the county auditors
office today, and will be filed in the
other counties by Saturday night.
A branch line fifty miles long will be
built, leaving the main line at Scoville,
North Dakota, and running through
Lisbon and Fort Ransom to Valley
City.
1t is. ESTIMATED that these two lines
will accommodate about thirty-four per-
cent of the population of the two states,
and the line will be built through one
the richest and most productive agricul-
tural sections of the two Dakotas, and
there s.no reason to doubt that the
new road will be paying proposition
from the start, tapping as it does ter
ritory rich in in diversity of agricul-
tural products. 1t will be of inestimable
benefit to the farmers of northern Day
and eastern Marshall counties, giving
them convenient market for their
products and developing what is now
principally stock country into one of
the garden spots of South Dakota.
Work on the grade will be commenced
at both ends of the line on or about
September LIST, and the track-laying
machine will follow as fast as the grade
is completed. The contractors who will
do the construction work have specified
time limit that makes it practically
certain that the new road will be in
operation this fall.
In material and equipment the new
road will rank with the best. The
specifications call for 3, 16S ties to the
mile, and S5-pound steel will be used
throughout, with the exception of on
Me sidetracks. An order has been
placed for the following equipment: 80
locomotives, 1000 steel box cars, $50
fiat cars, 40 coaches and baggage cars,
10 gasoline motor cars and 16 trailers.
The greater part of the line will be
comparatively easy to construct. With
the exception of the fifty-mile strip
from Webster to the North Dakota
line, there will be practically no hills
for the construction crews to contend
with, and through the hill region the
surveyors have found line that will