The Bemidji daily pioneer. [volume] (Bemidji, Minn.) 1904-1971, 1910-03-26
500 CONTRACTORS WILL
RUSH WORK HEREAFTER
Grading Roadbed Resumed in This
Immediate vicinity.-Most Contracts
Completed June 80. 80

The coming week will witness a
general resumption of grading opera
tons on the right-of-way of the
Plummer-Moose Lake line of the
500 railway (which extends through
Bemidji), and the contractors who
have the grade to make in this
immediate vicinity will have the
dirt flying in large chunks in order
to complete their contracts on
scheduled time."
C. E. Jameson is working his
grading paraphernalia in the vicinity
of Schley (east of Cass Lake },
where he has a emile contract.
This contact calls for 500 grade
from a point where the 500 will
cross the Great Northern, at Schley,
six miles east towards Bena.
Richard Evans of Minneapolis,
one of the heaviest of the 500 grade
builders, has the contract to build
the seventeen miles of grade between
the "narrows" at Cass Lake to the
Mississippi river, in the limits of
Bemidji Mr.. Evans has already
got a good start on his grading,
beginning with steam shovels late
last fall and grading at Cass Lake
and at Farris flour miles west of
Cass Lake,. Mr.. Evans will US
four shovels, stationed at advan-
tageous points along the line of the
right-of-way westward from Cass
Lake, and his crew will begin work
today with two of the shovels, the
one at Cass Lake and the second at
Farris. A third steam shovel has
been stored in the M. & I. yards in
South BemidJi. This shovel will be
moved eastward from Bemidji to a
point near Rosby. A fourth shovel
will also be used on this (the west.
ern end) of the Evans contract.
John Moberg of Bemidji, who has
the contract for grading of eight
miles of the right-of-way, from the
Mississippi river in the city to a
point one mile west of Wilton, will
resume operations this week. Mr..
Moberg got fair start in the early
winter. grading some 1900 yards.
Mr.. Moberg has one steam shovel;
and he will keep this machine"
busy from now on until the grade is
completed.
Both Evans and Moberg have con-
tracts calling for the completion of
their grades, ready for the steel, not
later than June 80. While the
major portion of the right-of-way
from Moose Lake to Plummer will
be ready for steel by July 1, yet
there are several contracts on the
western end of the line, east OF
Plummer, that will not be completed
until Aug /, because of the billy con-
dition of the country there.
While some of the grade will
not be finished until August 1, it
is stated positively by officials of
the 500 who are in a position to
know of 500 intentions, that the
entire Moose Lake.Plummer line
will be graded, steel laid and the
airline to Duluth" prepared and
ready in time to assist in hauling
the big wheat crops of North
Dakota and northern Minnesota to
the Twin Ports" at Duluth and
Superior.
1t is said that there is a very
small portion of the location right
of-way of the 500 which has not
been definitely settled, but that
this temporary state will be remedied
in a few days and due announce
ment will be made of the completion
of the entire definite line and that
the final arrangement will be very
satisfactory to Bemidji citizens.