In producing and setting forth the arguments for the fruition of these many hopes, Morrill county has herself discovered and been prompted to set forth to the rest of the world her physical and material resources. Not as a tale of dead hopes, but as a vivid portrayal of the valiant struggle kept up for some two decades by the active, loyal citizens of Morrill count}', do we divert to portray a series of discussions of the many railroad projects launched for further transportation facilities through Morrill county. In years to come, when some of these may be in actual existence, then these pages, perhaps pronounced by present readers, as a closet of skeletons, will be valuable original sources of information upon the planting and growth of these hopeful projects. Could

a small portion of these proposed lines have materialized, Morrill county would have been most wonderfully networked with transportation lines. But next to the story of her agricultural and material soil produring tale, the transportation evolution of the county develops it beyond some of its sister counties.

Bridgeport-O'Neill Railroad

Attention was called some eight or ten years .ago to the Burlington's line, running from Duluth, at the head of the Great Lakes, and now extending as far as O'Neill, this state. The Hill people said little about this project, but newspapers professed to believe that it was the intention to connect that line with the roads centering in Bridgeport. Besides providing a short and direct line across the continent, the read would pass through a good country the entire distance. The Hill interests maintain a line of steamers plying from Buffalo to Duluth, and another line from Seattle across the Pacific ocean. The road from O'Neill to Bridgeport will connect the two ends and provide a complete trans-continental transportation system.