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m iJUELlKGTOH'S EW TR4CKWjll JlnlM J*\r Jtoac! I'rotn Murray to' frestoii—Second Track All tt© Way to • Creslon Billed fux TliU l'rar.TilB Bur!in^|ou-J» making- preparations to construct f. double track from Murray 10 Cfestoii, twenty-four miles, and to.thJ* end a cotr.pauy called the Murray £ Crc-st on company lias been on*aii!zelt;Ji and ivas Incorporated, Saturday at Burlington, rrlth a cupfulftlock o£ tJ.WO.OCO. ^Tfcc existing sm*;)* track between the two points is a series nf h(a.vy gradt*. £i /]cavy that the largest ensures lt;ri the service can only haul twentr-lwG loads. •Tim intention is to not only build a ttoubte' track on the lice of a recently completed .survey.-but to reduce the maximum grade jo. thirty-tire feet 10 the mile and to .shorten, the lt;Jiitaijcc £rc*n Murray to Craton lo twenty-one from twenty-tour mites. * .Leaving Murray, the proposed Lin* dcltects sllghily northward, keeping along the backbone of. a ridge to a point r.tar Ath»n, suing completely around Thayer, midway between, and skirting the bills a mile noriU ol tbe p-resent track as it approaches ACioh, woifli II enters on 9. long, heavy grade. From Afton the ij*v survey follows a range or iiiJia northward. la a point two miles east of C'rts-ton, wbtr*!j draws* near lo the present track.. The hew .'route involves the abandonment'ot fifteen miles of,the old hue. In several places, espt el ah.v crossing Crand. river and into Afton, and thence |o the ra.njpa.of hills northward, ilic proposed route. M1I2 require snrec very heavy grading and filling. The Burlington expects to begin work oa 4hfs line carly next spring-and to in execute ft to ccfnpletlon In ilme to run trains over tt nekt fall.The incorporators-(of the Murrav C res ton are: I1, Snulres, W. Mc-Farbnri. William Carbon. W. W. Bald-u-in am! C. it. levy, each rof w hom is a tlui:khot;1er nml officer of the. Hurl-IngtutuThe “Q” Is also prfpaiing to build a second .track fr/mi Fairfield to Ottumwa, twenty-five cmlev... This work will Involve gr^djpg down AgOnry hill. otic of the heaviest grades on the line in Tor.-a. That the Burlington contem-plateo haying-a continuous contl track from Chkjgo to Crescon, SOI miles. is .now obvious, ey;di-j»IJy- hi ihe expectation that tt will, have to ir.ee 1 iharp competition from; Ihe . Knrihwestern, which J? ppsbfnp Us second track rapid! y on through Iowito Council Bluffs.KealJh fcr ten cenls. Cabarets maSe
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Des Moines Leader
Des Moines, Iowa, US
Thu, Jan 25, 1900
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