Omaha daily bee. (Omaha [Neb.]) 187?-1922, 1912-03-17
ROAD WILL SPEND MILLIONS
Milwaukee Will Have Extensive
Terminals in This City.
RoADBED IS TO BE IMPROVED
Tracks viii ne. Doubled I'm Iowa ana
IL N Said Road Intends TO Build
20 Yankfon, Connecths
with PuKet sound.

The report from Chicago announcing
that during the next year the Milwaukee
Railroad company, VIII spend sl5.ooo.oos
on neE work and IN Improving Its road
bed is taken TO mean much for Omaha.
aof the sl5.OcoeOo two-thirds. & is I'M
derstood, has been set aside for work on
the inaip line In lows and for improve
ments IN Omaha and Nebraska. Con-
trsfy to custom the largo sim Of money
wiil not be raised by selling bonds. but
VAN be taken from an aecamuiated sur
pias. that has been saved for the purpose
OF making the main line between Omaha
the world. erecting terminals In Omaha
and constructing a line from Omaha
northwest. either 10 Yankton or TO some
plolnt on the chamberlain-Rapld City
line and then beyond TO a connection
with the Puget Sound road. thus giving
the Pacific coast another outlet to the
great lakes and by way Of Omaha.
The first appropriation will be spent
TO take out curves. reduce grades and
complete the double tracking of the main
line between Chicago and Omaha. The
Milwaukee now has the short line be
tween Chicago and omaha-4s2 miles
and by making some contemplated cut
offs this distance can be reduced five
and possible eight miles.
AT this time the Milwaukee is double
tracked from Chicago TO Savannah on
the Mississippi river. 135 miles. and from
the river TO Marion. Ia, ninety miles.
II Is understood that grading for the
second track from Marion to Omaha will
begin as soon as the frost is out Of the
ground.
In connection with the double tracks
across Iowa, the next immense improve
ment will be the erection OF 100000
freight terminals In Omaha. Just where
the yards and the freight house will be
located is a secret up to this time. The
location. though, Is one Of two, one Is
the territory south Of Howard street ex-
tending TO the Union Pacific tracks, and
on Fifteenth street on the west to Tenth
on the east; the other In connection with
the Rock Island.
Some time ago the Rock Island pur-
chased large tract Of land west Of the
sixteenth street viaduct and south Of
the Great Western freight house. There
Is q rumor that the Milwaukee and the
Rock Island will use this land Jointly
for terminals. erecting freight house
sufficiently large to handle the business
Of the two roads for the next twenty
five years.
The next work in view and which lie
said to mean more for Omaha than
either Of the others. is the building OF a
line through Nebraska 10 the northwest.
1t Is also said that work will be com
menced this spring or summer
People who claim TO know, say thai
the right-of-way from Omaha TO Nor
folk. secured last summer by the Me-
braska Traction company, will be
turned over TO the Milwaukee and that
the road VIII be built on this survey.
From one source the report comes thar
from Norfolk the Milwaukee viii build
TO Yankton. there connecting with its
Jim river line. which runs to Aberdeen
and there connecting with the Puge,
sound line. The other report Is that
after leaving Norfolk the line win run
northwest. tappdne the Chamberlain
branch and going over 1t to Rapid CITY
and thence north through the western
tier Of counties of South Dakota To a
point on the Puget sound line not yet