LAKE CONTRARY BRANCH.
1.50 Miles.
Built under same charter as the line St. Joseph to Winthrop. Opened
July 12th,
1888. Right-of-Way, Track, etc., everything sold to St. Joseph Stock Yards
Company, January 12th, 1898.
See quit clain deed, Secretary's No. 12012, sold by the St. Joseph,
St. Louis and
Santa Fe Ry. Co.. (Santa Fe) reserving the right to use said right-of-way
and operate trains over it until the first day of July 1898, and reserving
and excepting from said grant all rails, ties, switches, switch stands,
structures and appliances, located or placed there on by said party of
the first part (Santa Fe) or in its behalf.
Page 49 Meade's Manual transcribed in altered form for the web by Russell Crump