Saturday news. (Watertown, S.D.) 19??-19??, 1913-04-24
ELECTRIC
RAILWAY
Great Accomplishment Up to Date
for the Promotion of Electric
Short Line TO Watertown.
NOW HEADING FOR THIS CITY
1t Will Make Lake Kampeska One
Of the Most Famous Summer
Resorts in the Northwest.

Actual accomplishments up to date
for the promotion of the electric short
line railway to run from Minneapolis
due west to Watertown, have been as
follows:
The acquiring of 157 acres of land
within the city limits of Minneapolis
for terminal facilities for the use of
all electric lines desiring entrance to
the city, at a cost of about $1,000,000.
Construction begun and ten miles
Of rails laid between city limits at
Western avenue and Medicine Lake.
Contracts to be fulfilled by the 1st
of June have been let for terminal
trackage from site of terminal station
located on triangle formed by Seventh
street, Holden street and Second av-
enue north to city limits.
Contract let for concrete bridges
over tracks at Western and Penn av
enues at Cedar Lake and for double
track steel viaduct $50 feet long, over
the Great Northern and the Minneap-
oils and ST. Paul roads at Holden
street.
Contract for construction of contin-
iuation of line already built to Medi-
cine lake on to Long lake, to be COM
pleted also by June.
Contract ready to let for eonstruc-
1tion from Long Lake to Winsted, a
distance of 40 miles from Minneapolis.
4 Ninety per cent of 100 miles. Of right
of way due west from Minneapolis TO
!, Clara City, secured,
/ Survey made and estimates of cost
of construction from Minneapolis to
! Watertown, a distance of 1874 miles.
Survey made and the right of way
men in the field for a branch line to
Marshall, connecting with The main
line at Thorpe
Preliminary survey made to New
Ulm, for branch connecting with
main line at Watertown.
Preliminary survey for branch line
to Litchfeld, connecting with main
line at Hutchinson Junction.
The results enumerated have entail
ed negotiations for the acquiring of
| land for trackage and terminals by
piece, in the business district of Min
neapolis extending over period of
seven years, the value of which is
placed at $2,000,000 in the aggregate,
about double the purchase price.
There is sufficient to accommodate
any electric lines in the future wish
ing to enter the city. The Dan Patch
Electric line. already in operation to
Northfield, 38 miles from Minneapolis,
twill be enabled to reach the center of
the city from present terminals in
the Lake street district, which it is
announced will be done. The right
of way is private so that restrictions
as to speed, which apply to steam
lines operating in the city, will be OBJ
Waited, and the short line trains can
leave their terminal at Seventh street
and Second avenue north, and reach
the outskirts of the city in FIVE min-
utes, having but six grade crossings,
two of which it is expected will be
eliminated
The statement is made that there
is no Indebtedness against the COM
pany and that bonds will not be
loated until SO miles of line have
been accomplished.
The power will be furnished from
Minneapolis for about 100 miles out
of Minneapolis and another power
station is to be built at Watertown Or
Montevideo to which point construc-
tion is expected to be complete in
about year.
The equipment to be purchased is
similar to that used upon the success
full electric roads now In operation in
New York, Indiana, Ohio, Illinois,
Iowa. Oregon, Washington and central
California and is to be standard guage|
to permit the interchange of cars,
both freight and passenger on all
railroads.
The territory of the Electric Short
Line which lies due west of the city,
of Minneapolis comprises the richest
agricultural land in the northwest,