Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1910-07-10
DAKOTA LINES HOLD BACK
Gentlemen's Agreement Among Rail-
roads to Cease Construction.
PROJECTED PLANS IN ABEYANCE
Northwestern Extension to winner
Probably Only New One on that
Road - other Lines
Halted.

PIERRE, S. D., July g.-(Special.) 1.-THE
railway situation in South Dakota appears
to be suffering from blight of the
weather; the financial situation. the high
cost Of living, or some other equally potent
cause to bring about a paralysis In active
construction work. OF the finishing up OF
proposed work which showed up In bright
and favorable colors a few months ago
with rosy promises to many localities OF
early railway connections with the outer
world Less than year ago the air was
full Of rumors OF railway extension work;
the engineering forces Of the different ran
way companies operating In South Dakota
were being worked at full capacity, ana
plans for a large amount OF new mileage
were not only freely discussed by the gem
eral public but by railway men themselves
Late in the fail, for some unexplained rea-
son the preliminary work which was under
way on many proposed lines, was dropped
and the engineering forces shifted to other
locations or dismissed. While this was
going on there appeared 10 be a general
feeling that such work was only being
postponed until spring, when 1t would again
be pushed. But spring has come and gone
and midsummer is at hand without sign
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than a year ago.
Northwestern stops,
The Northwestern road stopped short all
It's work on the proposed line from Hitch
cock to Ohida, scattering its engineering
force and hauling away piles Of material
which had been stacked at Hitchcock for
this line. The preliminary work on the
lines north from It's Pierre Rapid City line,
which was kept up until the men We're
driven in by the snow last winter, has not
been resumed this year Other preliminary
work has been entirely cut out. That COM
pany has completed its line east from
Belle Fourche to Newell on the government
Irrigation project and scattered the con-
struction force; within few days 1t will
have completed the line from Blunt to
Gettysburg, and nothing more is in sight
In that part of the state.
The only thing In the way Of Northwest
ern extension which appears to show the
auickening Of life is the extension west
from Dallas. This line is proposed to cross
Trlpp county and on the strength OF such
a line the town of Lamro was moved to
Winner, several miles north, where the
railway officials had promised railway con-
nections before the close Of this year, After
backing and filling several times on that
promise, kIAQeIS hOW OSmb ScAib -
Dallas. and the line will likely be finished
10 winner this year, but probably not any
farther With that work done, the outlook
is not bright for any further Northwestern
extension work in South Dakota this veal
and approximately the same conditions
exist in regard to extension work by tina
company in other northwestern states wher'
plans haye been pushed.
In milwaukee Territory.
The Milwaukee company appears to be II
about the same position. They have CIV
out all preliminary work all over the state
Their proposed line from Mobridge out int
the Thunder Butte country has stopped a
Timber Lake, about half way out. They ar
vet working on their Fox Ridge line, AM
while the promoters Of the new town o
Faith are selling lots on the strength OF tn
assertion that the line will be finished t
that place before snow flies next winter
the probabilities are that the loudest whist
they will hear at Faith before another yea
viii be that of steam breaking plow.
The Northern Pacific extension down tn
river from Mandan, which was to get int
South Dakota this year, is reported to b
at a complete halt, with no probability o
it's getting any farther this year.
The Minneapolis & st. Louis company
this city and Aberdeen. has. through 1t
representatives in conference with bushes
men of this city, secured an extension c
ninety days in its option. carrying It up t
tie LIST Of October They give the excus
of the money situation in the east as tn
reason for asking for this time That the
cannot work until they have finished negC
tiations for the necessary cash, and theT
has been delay In this
New Companies.
Several new companies have filed article
OF Incorporation for territory affecting Dol
tons of this state. but none OF them sho'
any indications Of getting beyond the incoi
poratlon stage this year. and the probabll
ties OF railway extension In this part OF til
northwest for at least year are not yer
bright,
just what the real reason is for this sue
den dropping OF projected lines is not give
to the public One authority says II
scarcity OF money; another that the legi
latures OF the northwest all meet next viii
ter and the companies want to know VIII,
treatment they are TO receive before the
venture any further; others ascribe II
the crop outlook, but that is q late reasc
and could hardly apply when the droppir
out process was commenced last fall. WIFI
these appear to be the reasons advanced
the railways themselves. the general pu
lie" is at sea, and many OF that class a.
narrow enough to ascribe II to an aEre
ment among the railways themselves 10 Ike,
out OF the territory OF one another. and no
what they have without any further bull
ing operations.
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