The New Railroad Scheme.
The following dispatch was sent out from Freeport under date of May 21: The Freeport, Dodgeville & Northern Railroad, the articles of incorporation for which were filed yesterday at Madison, Wis., and Springfield, Ill., is another Illinois Central project. The road is to extend northwest from Freeport, up the Pecatonica River Valley through a rich country to Dodgeville, Wis., a distance of about fifty-eight miles. The incorporators of this road are Isham Randolph, of Normal Park, Chief Engineer of the Chicago, Madison & Northern Railroad, which is a part of the Illinois Central system: Bernt Moe, of Chicago, Paymaster of the Chicago, Madison & Northern; Lewis T. Moore, of Chicago, Chief Engineer of the Illinois Central; James 1. Neff, of Freeport, more than a dozen years attorney for the Illinois Central in Freeport; and Judge James Waddington, of Argyle, Wis. A preliminary survey of the line will be made very soon, but it is not certain yet that the road will be built before another
season. The supposition is that it will some time not very far in the future be extended to St. Paul. The Freeport. Dodgeville & Northern is on the line of the present paper road, surveyed more than two years ago, and known as the Chicago, Freeport A St. Paul. There is no doubt that the Illinois
Central people mean business, and will put this new line through this season or next.
- Iowa County Democrat 5/27/1887
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It is understood, at Madison, that the Freeport, Dodgeville & Northern will next year, be built to St. Paul, while the impression also obtains that the Chicago, Madison A Northern will be continued to Oshkosh, and possibly to the mining country of Northern Wisconsin and Michigan. Both roads
belong to Illinois Central people.
- Iowa County Democrat 8/19/1887
The following dispatch was sent out from Freeport under date of May 21: The Freeport, Dodgeville & Northern Railroad, the articles of incorporation for which were filed yesterday at Madison, Wis., and Springfield, Ill., is another Illinois Central project. The road is to extend northwest from Freeport, up the Pecatonica River Valley through a rich country to Dodgeville, Wis., a distance of about fifty-eight miles. The incorporators of this road are Isham Randolph, of Normal Park, Chief Engineer of the Chicago, Madison & Northern Railroad, which is a part of the Illinois Central system: Bernt Moe, of Chicago, Paymaster of the Chicago, Madison & Northern; Lewis T. Moore, of Chicago, Chief Engineer of the Illinois Central; James 1. Neff, of Freeport, more than a dozen years attorney for the Illinois Central in Freeport; and Judge James Waddington, of Argyle, Wis. A preliminary survey of the line will be made very soon, but it is not certain yet that the road will be built before another
season. The supposition is that it will some time not very far in the future be extended to St. Paul. The Freeport. Dodgeville & Northern is on the line of the present paper road, surveyed more than two years ago, and known as the Chicago, Freeport A St. Paul. There is no doubt that the Illinois
Central people mean business, and will put this new line through this season or next.
- Iowa County Democrat 5/27/1887
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It is understood, at Madison, that the Freeport, Dodgeville & Northern will next year, be built to St. Paul, while the impression also obtains that the Chicago, Madison A Northern will be continued to Oshkosh, and possibly to the mining country of Northern Wisconsin and Michigan. Both roads
belong to Illinois Central people.
- Iowa County Democrat 8/19/1887
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