Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1911-05-02
NOT ON PAPER Only.
Renewed Activity in Building the
Dan Patch Road.

The Minneapolis, St. Paul. Rochester
and Dubuqe Electric railway is more
than paper railroad. 1t is now in op-
Grafton over one-seventh of it's dis
tance, or from Minneapolis to North
field, more than forty miles. 1t is the
finest railway construction in Mime
sofa and the steel is laid on a road bed
as good as the Pennsylvania systems.
The construction gangs are now
working between Mortified and Owa-
tona, Minn., and it is expected the lat
ter point will be reached by July 4th.
There is money enough in the treasury
to carry the line through to Rochester,
which point it is expected will be
reached by November l.
The objective of the road is Dubu-
que. When it will have been put
through to Rochester, 1873 miles from
Minneapolis, it will be nearly half fin
ished, the distance to Dubuque from
Rochester being about 167 miles. Mr..
Savage, the president of the company,
is building the line out of the receipts
from the sale of stock. There are not
bonds outstanding and no mortgages, so
there are no fixed interest charges to
be taken care of.
The Dubuque Industrial Corporation
has been advised that Mr.. Savage
would consider proposal to start con-
struction out of Dubuque towards
Rochester to join the finished road
there. Just what Dubuque would be
willing to do in the matter of subscrib-
ing to stock in the railway only the
Industrial Corporation is in position to
say. Certain it is that the city would
do a great deal, even with an agree
ment only to extend the line twenty
five miles out of Dubuque to the west
ern limits of the county. Dubuque
needs an interurban from the north
and needs it badly, and the opinion is
that if we once got started upon in
terurban construction several lines
would be built before we should be
willing to say that for the present we
had enough.-Dubuque Telegraph Her
aid.
The foregoing article which appeared
on the editorial page of recent issue
of the Dubuque Telegraph Herald. will
be interesting to those of Cresco and
vicinity who are eagerly seeking for
better transportation facilities for this
section and who have not lost faith In
Mr.. Savage and his road.
Inquiry Of those in position to know
confirms the statements made in the
Telegraph Herald. The-ros1 is actual
ly in operation between Minneapolis
and Mortified, work is now Ming done
on the roadbed between Mortified and
Owatonna, and some time in late sum-
mer or autumn, the line will be in ope-
ration to Owatonna and the grading to
Rochester. As it is Mr.. Savage's plan
to build by divisions, the next year will
see the road in operation to Rochester
and grading commenced on the stretch
between Rochester and Dubuque.
A feature Of this road building not
generally known and one of the strong
est incentives for its building is that
it will be one of the branches of a
large system extending from the Twin
Cities to st. Louis and eastward from
Dubuque to Chicago. Part of the Chi
cago- Dubuque branch is completed and
part of the proposed Dubuque-St.
Louis branch is in operation from
Davenport to Clinton and also short
line running south from Keokuk, with
roads to fill the intervening gaps being
already promoted.
With Cresco on the trunk line of
such system, it would be the object
i've point of every proposed interurban
road in this vicinity. The Charles City
line now in process of building and
which has been preliminary surveyed
to Alta Vista, Elma, Riceville. and re-
port says to Schley, in search of a
route. would never-stop un-
til it reached .Cresco.
With the growing demand by our
people for better transportation facili-
ties, our business men should be alert
and active to secure for Cresco the ad.
vantages that would result from the
building of either or both. the Dan
Patch or the Charles City line.