Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-06-30
SYSTEM TO BE
EXTENDED IN THREE
DIRECTIONS.
SURVEYS BEING MADE TO
GRUNDY AND MARsHALLToWN
Present Company Intends to Build One
Line Each YearFirst Extension
Now Being Constructed to WaverIy,
With Mason City tho Objective
Another Line to Cedar Rapids.

Waterloo, June 30.--A network Of in
terurban lines running from this city
in northerly, southeasterly and south
westerly directions are the future plans
Of the W. c.. F. & ~, according to q
statement made by j. f. Cass. vice
president Of the company. No def
mite plans in regard to these extensions
have yet been formulated but the object
Of the company as explained by Mr.
Cass Is to extend one interurban line
each year until the network Of lines
is complete which they will eventually
tho it will take several years.
At the present time the company is
engaged in extending their line to
Waverly which will be but the first
step for the first interurban line. Ma
son CITY being the objective line which
the company have in mind and to
which they will extend the Waverly
line as rapidly as possible and thus
open up a large territory which Wat
erloo is unable to reach at any hrdlu
erloo is unable to reach to any advan-
tage at the present time.
Surveyors are at work at present
working one year ahead Of the plans
of the company for the purpose of To-
eating the proposed lines and grades
and finding the best territory to run q
line This gand started from Water
loo two weeks ago and worked west to
Cedar Falls along the Illinois Central
right Of way, then thru Cedar Falls
and in a southwesterly direction head
ing towards Grundy Center and Mar
shalltown. Surveys are being made
and grades located. Several OF these
proposed lines will be surveyed and the
most suitable one will be selected when
the time comes for building the line.
Go to MarshaIttown.
The interurban line which will be
built 10 Grundy Center will not stop
there but will continue to Marshall
town, making that the headquarters OF
that territory and opening up q large
field thru Dixie and Fredsville and
Grundy Center and the country sur
rounding there for an area Of several
miles. The surveyors are at work at
the present time on this line and will
select the route from the various sur
veys that they make.
Yesterday the surveying gang had
reached q distance several miles west
of Cedar Falls running In a SOUTH
westerly direction and will continue
in that direction until they reach
Grundy Center after passing thru the
towns enroute and then will proba bly,
strike for Marshalltown.
Into Cedar Rapids.
The third line which the w. G. F.
& N, is planning to build in time will
be from this city in a southeasterlq
direction. running into Cedar Rapids
and thus opening up wide territory
in that direcaion. No steps have yet
been taken in regard to this line and
1t is expected that 1t will probably be
the last line Of the three that the COM
pany will build.
The plan Of the company outlined
yesterday by Mr.. Cass is to open up
new territory with their lines as rap
idly as possible and the net work Of
interurbans as outlined above will be
accomplished in time by the w. C. f..
b N. unless, as Mr.. Cass stated, their
competitors get ahead of them with
the lines But to build one interur-
ban line each year is the plan that
the company have decided upon at the
present time. At this rate within
three years aWterloo will become the
center of great net work of inter-
urban lines In northwestern Iowa.