The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1915-07-22

line, but they feel that the west line
should not be sidetracked for any
other section of the country. Presi-
dent Carlisle of the Commercial Club
wrote Col. Luce some time ago relative
to the extension of the line west and
the Colonel's letter was rather non
committal.
The Minneapolis Journal of Monday
had the following about the progress
ng made by the line:
rhe Electric Short Line Railway
: npany, now operating from Mime
. oils through Watertown to Winsted.
3 planning to build As miles of new
8 ad this year, according to informa-
= IN given today by Erie d. Luce, pres
Z ent of the company. The extension
: Ill cost about $440, 900. Two plans
5 e under consideration. One aims at
: hutchinson, % miles from Winsted,
with Clara City, 40 miles beyond
Hutchinson, as the eventual destina-
ton. The other plan is to strike south
from Winsted, crossing the Great
Northern road at Lester Prairie and
running thence to New Auburn.
The Lester Prairie extension would
cross the Milwaukee road between
Glencoe and Norwood and carry the
Electric Short Line roads close to
Green Isle IN the Minneapolis & st.
Louis road.
Chief Engineer John Westerdahl,
and II. f. Hart right-of-way agent, COM
pleted their work on the proposed Hut
Crimson extension Saturday, following
which H. F. Balch, who built the exist
and E. A. Strider, went over the pro-
posed route Saturday and Sunday.
Twenty farmers between Winsted and
Hutchinson have signed right-of-way
contracts, President Luce said, some
of them taking Electric Short Line
Terminal stock in payment. Hutchin-
son business interests have taken
stock in the line and a station will be
built there in advance of the begin
ming of operation of the railway.
1--WE have decided not to make the
bond issue on the Minneapolis ter
minal property that was announced
about a month ago." President Luce
said, because we found that the Eu-
ropean war and the money market
situation make it an ~unfavorable time.
This will not interfere with extern
sion work this year. We are able to
finance the extension with terminal
company stock and consequently will
go ahead. At some later time We will
issue the bonds. The cost of the ex-
tensions, while it will vary in places,
will average about 10000 a mile
throughout. We are debating whether
to build to Hutchinson, which is a
good town, and put that line into oper.
alton before winter, or whether to be-
gin work on the extension south to
Lester Prairie and to put all the money
into the Lester Prairie line and carry
it through to New Auburn into a very
rich territory, which would add mater
tally to our freight revenues. We will
decide within 10 days and announc
definitely just where we will start the
work. We expect in any case to add
about as miles to the line this year"
President Luce said that bids for
the passenger terminal that is to stand
on the triangular property at Seventh
and Holden streets and Third avenue
N will be opened shortly. The plans
are by Clarence L. Brown. The ter
minal probably will be complete 80
days after the contract is awarded.
1--WE have the foundation in for our
freight terminal" President Luce said,
"and are going ahead with the super
structure as fast as possible"