Another contract has been let for extending the Illinois Central road beyond Dodgeville. A contract
was let some time ago for extending the track 3,300 feet beyond the Dodgeville depot, which would
carry it into the entrance of the big cut on Military ridge where the cut would be 23 feet deep. That contract has almost been completed, and the new contract extends from that to the Northwestern track, a distance of 4,050 feet further. This new contract will involve an all winter’s work, and will probably be operated by a steam shovel and the dirt removed by pony engines and cars to the big bridge, a distance of nearly two miles. A portion of the cut will exceed 40 feet in depth, and
when completed the major portion of the grading across the Military ridge will be finished.
- Mineral Point Tribune. 7/19/1888
was let some time ago for extending the track 3,300 feet beyond the Dodgeville depot, which would
carry it into the entrance of the big cut on Military ridge where the cut would be 23 feet deep. That contract has almost been completed, and the new contract extends from that to the Northwestern track, a distance of 4,050 feet further. This new contract will involve an all winter’s work, and will probably be operated by a steam shovel and the dirt removed by pony engines and cars to the big bridge, a distance of nearly two miles. A portion of the cut will exceed 40 feet in depth, and
when completed the major portion of the grading across the Military ridge will be finished.
- Mineral Point Tribune. 7/19/1888
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