St. Cloud Democrat. [volume] (Saint Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1858-1866, 1861-10-10
Our r lilroads.

the Press on Railroads and commend 1t TO
tho attention Of our readers. It IL GEN.
tire shot and those wh.,ss have aided in
electiny .ltice's old chum Lowry, may see
some connection between tho attempt to
cleo: lGce representatives from St. Paul
aud the huge efforts made to send ditto
from st. Cloud: Maybe they may dis.
cover they have been badly sold. The
Rice Company appear determined that no
Railroad shall be built until they are
bought of. Contractors refuse to buy
them. The Land Grants will probably
revert to Government, for it would be al.
most impossible to get the roads built
now, according to the terms OF the Grant,
and so the charter will fail. which brings
the road across the river and per necessity
At Lower St. Cloud. Then perhaps sufi-
cient amount of Log rolling can be done
to get charter which will cross it above
tho rapids and so quadruplc the value Of
Mr.. Lowry's property and leave St. Cloud
in the rural districts. ..
To show that Mr.. Foster il correct in
his statement Of the cause Of the discon-
tinuance Of work on the road between st.
Paul and St. Anthony We copy the FOL-
lowing from the Press, editorial: .
This morning Mcssrs. Winters & Ia
Ieuve 0ur State ant return to <|hio. AND
ALL FURTHER WORK UPON THEIR CON-
TRACT Is At AN END.
Anxious to ascertain the cause Of this
step, AMI DESTROYS that We should have in
an authoritive way the real cause, w cal.
led upon the contractors previous to their
departure, and learned from them, in an
swer to our enquiries. the following facts ::
Under the arrangement with Sdmund
Rice, ESQ.,, who represented the Mime
sofa and Pacific Railroad Company. Messr.
Winters Il Go. were to do certain amount
Of work for certain consideration, .n1 in
doing that work they we're to be u"tram'
melcd by any Of the ,utecedcnt troubles
Of the company ;-th>y 'cere to hare a
clear course. ia.
On this supposition they proceeded,
made their deposit Of $4,000 and
brought here their cars, locomotive and
iron. It turned out, however, that tn,
company we,e unable to secure the sright
Of way, through the city. We are inform
cd that an injunction had. been actually
allowed, to restrain the company aud c,n-
..sctors, and would have been served up
on them, had they attempted to proceed
Z half mile further With the trick.
But besides these obstacles, wholly IN:
looked f;,r by the contractors, We learn
there was another and more serious di6-
Guilty sprinying from the company itself
The Company tavs been unable to per-
feet the sale lately had in New York un-
der the foreclosure Of the 6rst mortgage.
This sale was for the sum Of $4,000,
which vas to be paid to the Trustees by
the Company, by second mortgage on
the entire road. After the sale, aud cE
ter tie costracsors hal reached St Ius!
eth all their n,ater;idl to c0mpletc their
roud, tho Trustees DEMANDED. before
they would execute deed for the road
under the sale, TUE PAYMENT Of So, 900
CASH, or : first mortgage on the entire
rad .isclud;.g he nsachiinery a@d iro,
% Be f.rxisheti By tie Contractors in eff
feet, requiring tho contractors TO PAY
~ 00O MORE THAN THEY HADcoST1AcI-
ED 70 PAY.
The result, Of course, - might have
been anticipated, MAS TO eompsl the con-
.tr.etors 70 throw NJ their eontract pack
m thair machiinory,, ir 81 and cara until