The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1910-10-21
THE DALLAS EXTENSION.
Grading Outfits Working West, Rails
Are Being Laid Fast.

Colome Times: Under Roadmaster
Spellman force of thirty.four men
are now engaged laying ties and rails
las toward Colome. The number of
men will be increased as fast as men
can be hired until hundred men are
employed. The scarcity of workmen
is all that prevents much faster work.
The rails are dropping in at the rate
of half mile day.
An engine and supply cars are fol.
lowing the men, who are running
ahead with small trucks, laying the
steel.
At the present rate the line should
be completed within twenty days to
Colome, but it will probably require
less time if men can be secured.
Colome will have the railroad, ties,
rails, locomotives and cars, the real
thing, within the month.
The station to be erected here will
probably be brought in by train and
will be ready to throw together when
ii arrives.
The above is the railroad situation
in a nutshell, and it's a shell that
breaks to mighty fine kernel for Co
lone and all Trip county.
Winner Journal: The work of lay
ing rails on the Northwestern extern.
sion from Dallas to Winner was COM
menced Monday. A gang of about
100 men are at work laying ties and
rails and ballasting the road bed.
over three miles have been finished.
week, the grading contractors have
been ordered to rush their work and
they certainly are doing it, The work
at this place will be completed in
about two weeks and with favorable
weather the grading will be completed
between Colome and this place by No
vember LIST.
1t is expected that Winner will have
regular train service by Deem
Der LIST.
Trip County Journal: Several
more grading outfits have been moved
lone, and are now hard at work be-
tween Colome and this city.
Several of the contractors have
been in Winner during the past week.
and each and everyone of them has
stated that they had received orders
to rush the work as fast as possible,
as the railroad company wished to
lay the rails in to Winner this fall.
They have also stated that it would
be necessary to complete the road
to Winner this fall, if it started out
from Dallas, as there had been no
provision made for even a temporary
terminus at ColOme.
Mr.. Chamberlain one or the con-
tractors who are doing the grading at
this place, states that it will take
about thirty days to finish the work
here. The grading for the round
house is nearly finished and consider
able work has been done one the "Y."
The Lamoureaux camps are work
ing on Sand Creek near Brandon
Springs. This is the heaviest piece
of work between here and Colome,
but 1t is expected that this will be
finished within six weeks with favor.
able weather.
The grading across Miss Sallee's
claim east of Colome was resumed on
Monday. Sometime ago Miss Sallee
secured an injunction prohibiting the
road from building across her claim.
1t is not known just how the matter
was settled between Miss Sallee and
railroad company, but we are inform.
ed that a large outfit began grading
there the first of the week and that
the work Will be finished in short or
der
Another order was received by the
contractors that the grading work
would have to be finished in time TO
lay he rails to Winner by December
LIST as they wish to begin train SER
vice on that date.