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connection it mi uio ^oruicru raciuc in Dakota and that ns rapid]j na possible. That little piftcool twenty miles from Clarion to the M. St. L. road can be built auy timo next -winter alter we arc sure of our connections with Uio con! fields and a St. Louis market. Again supposing that tho Minneapolis and St. Louis road had proponed to build n lino froru TIumbnldt county to Eoimelfiburff this rear and bo on northwest which would have been a good line for this couoty, it the puoplu would voto them forty thousand dollars in taxes would it not have been wisdom to linru s«cnrcd it and the greatest folly to liuvv refused to gi*0 tliu aid and lost thcroiul? And yet tbo rand now offered us if never built to Clarion would be a better road for us than a branch of the Minneapolis lt;fc St. Lonin. There need bo no fears however bill whnt this Company will build the connection to Clarion and that as rapidly as possible, for tlicT have over six biuidred milesof rood that is to be greatly benefitedby tlml connection anil] they would btt very foolish to pay tho Minneapolis Sc St. Louis road for hauling their cars from Humboldt county to St. Louis when by building twenty miles of road jliey would have n direct connection with six hundred miles of their own track. This question ought not to stand in the way of a siuglu vote. Tho proposition made by tho company will give Ha wliat wo most need,a strong competing lino oud direct and certain , connections with an abundance of coal, ) a short lino to tho St. Louia market and besides a direct competing line [or Chicago.
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Palo Alto Reporter
Emmetsburg, Iowa, US
Sat, May 07, 1881
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