Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1911-11-02
new RAILROAD
CONSTRUCTION
GREAT ACTIVITY IN EXTENSION5
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AND CUT-OFFS IN THIS
STATE
Prospective Extensions for Near Hu.
ture sf Old Systems-M. u
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Prospective Extensions for Near: Eu.

st. L.. Rumors
The Minneapolis Journal eff Sun
day had the following story of North
Dakota railroad construction under
an Esmond date line:
"A summary of railre)aG cconstruc-
tion work in North Dakota in 1919
and 1911 develops activity among
rival companies that cannot fail to
have the effect of increasing farm
land v: lues and contribute to
the general welfare cot all classes.
Many new Inns are under constI1c-
ton or plannsd for the inearfature,
and many changes are being made
IN the railroad map 0of the state.
Where seems to be q Gdesire ON the
.Dart of the companies to straighten
and shorten their lines, as we'll az
$40 reach out for new territory and
mew cutozfs and feeders are the prin-
|ecipal topics of interest. While tho
feeders are largely snly of local Inter
.est, some nfithe cuboffs will material
Fly effect stHtss' both.east and west af
North Dakota and will change rates
sand time tables iibetween many Hf
tthe larger cities.
The new cutoff runs from Fargo
rto Minot nor --225 xmiles paralaeang
7the main line of HE 500. A oum-
pletion is promiseR before August,
1912.
This new cutoff will shorten the
Substance hetween the coast and points
east of Mmot about IS miles. The
nleayiest cf steel nails will be laid
for carryauH fast and heavy trans
Eend the csteoff will the main
line Of the Great Northern for all
/ Through tn1ins, including silk and
fish express trains from the Pacific
oDast.
The Joumal article also states
that the nevsSoo cutson is the Drake
and Devils Lake FordBille line which
Tws northensterly frnm Drake across
the counties Of Pierce, Benson, Ram;
seq and Nelspn to GraEd Forks conn
ty at Fordvi43e, formerly called Med
ford. The fatal length of the new
line IFS about $50 miles. 1t crosses
the Jamestown and NoRthern branch
between Minnnwaukan and Brfns-
made and in :Benson oennty passes
about midway between the Great
Northern and the Oberon-Esmond
branch of the Northern Pacific. It
will darive business from territory
heretofore wholly controlled by the
Great Northern and Northern Paci-
1ic. All right of ~ny has baen bought
and the line viii be completed for
the hauling of ezops in 1912. 1t
will give direct line northeast
from Bismarck ami will be princi-
paEy freight line and lit will
connect with the wheat line tof the
500 running into DEluth and from
there to Chicago. 1t lis said that the
500 has surveyed an extension of its
Plaza Zine wet to Winston and from
Plaza southwest to Mbowoods on
the Missouri river in tie Fort Fer
thold reservation. All grain from
t1is great new territory will he
hauled to Duluth. the saving IN
mileage will be of great value to
North Dakota settlers.
1T is believed the 500 intends to
Du1ld another connecting line be-
,ween it's wheat line" and
It's main line, from Egeland. in
rowner county, straight south thru
Devils Lake, to Kensal I'm Stutsman
county, on the mafn line, thus cross I
ng it's Devils Lake-Fordvllle cutoff
It right angles at Devils Lake and
making four miles Of the 500 radiat-
ng from the city"
Still Another 1t
Another proposed line of the {
loo is from Thief River Falls. Mimi.
o Grand Forks, thence southwest
through Darlington to Bismarck, a. c
'out 24O miles. Grand Forks has {
ong wanted the 500. and the fact 8
hat surveyors, believed to be in it's Il
mploy, have been at work between
'hief River Falls and Grand Forks
ives confidence to its expectations.
he commercial club Of Grand Forks h
] acting in concert with the CONNER '
ial club at Duluth and every effort .
rill be made to encourage the build =
ng Of that line. . =
The Journal article says that d