Source: Northwestern Lumberman
March 14, 1885

The Duluth & Winnipeg land grant has been transferred to
the Brainerd & Northwestern RR. Co., by an act of the MN
legislature. The righteouness of the transfer was based on
the fact that the D&W Co., has expended $300,000 in
preliminaries while it has built no road and has no
prospect of building any, while the B&NW Ry., guaranteed
to go ahead with construction at once. The object of the

grant was to encourage the opening up a portion of MN that
now is inaccessible to transportation amd thus to induce
settlement,

D&W Rye
DSS&A Ry.