The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1864-02-12
ST. PAUL AND PACIFIC
RAILROAD.
HIGHLY IMPORTANT ACTION OF
THE COMPANY.
st. Paul and WinOna Branch Con-
sOlidated with the Northwest
ern Railroad.
10 be Completed from st. Paul
to Hastings next Summer.
Arrangements for Pushing the Line
through from st. Paul to
Pembina.
Continuation to the Pacific through
the British Possessions,

Under the Act passed by the present
Legislature (printed in the PIONEER of the
30th ult. } to amend the Charter of the st.
Paul and Pacific Railroad, which provided
for separate organizations for different
portions of this line of road, the Directors
have transferred that portion of their line
extending from St. Paul to Watab, and
from St Anthony west to the foot of Big
Stone Lake, to the holders of the stock
upon the above line = 2a"
Yesterday these stockholders organized
under the name of 'sThe First Division of
the Saint Paul and PACING Railroad" and
elected the following gentlemen as @
a' DIRECTORS
GEO. i. BECKER of st. Paul JARED Benson
of Anoka HORACE THOMPSON of st. Paul. WM.
4. LITCHFIELD of st. Paul, +. r. DELANo OF st.
Paul, THOMAS A. HARRISON of Minneapolis,
LEANDER GoRroN of st. Cloud.
And the Directors elected officers as fol-
lows: -..... ... . ..-.
President--GEoRGE L. BECKER ... .....
F5ce PresideRt-WNI. B. LITCHFIELD. ..
IredSurer--HORACE THOMPSON .| ~.
SecretdTy-S. S. BREED -EH Et18E
Superintendent. Il DELANo. sY--E
LGRd NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. L. BECKER.
Treasurer Of the Land Department. HORACE
THOMPSON.
We understand that iron has been pro-
vided by the newly organized company for
the road to St. Cloud, which will probably
be laid in time for the fall business, and
that arrangements have been made to
commence the road west from Minneapolis
early in the spring. .r. -.. .a s-.,#
The old Board of Directors, ia accord
ance with the act amendatory' of their
charter, have made an arrangement by
which they consolidated the line from St.
Paul to Winona with the Chicago and
Northwestern Railroad and the latter
company has agreed to commence the con-
struction of the road early in the spring,
and to build at least twenty miles from
St. Paul to Hastings the present year.
We understand further that the Board
have also reason to believe thetw be
aoio W ooiHp1ete al arrangement, already
partly made, with parties interested in
the Hudson Bay Company, to commence
the line at Watab, and to complete in a
short time, the same TO Pembina, in this
State, from which point it will be con-
tinued to the Pacific Ocean through the
British Possessions d. .aH 2"A'95
, With these facts before us, we consider
the legislation had and the action under
it, as above detailed, the most important
events that have yet occurred in the pro-
gress of our railroad system, and it will
be so regarded by every one conversant
with the topography of the country I'm
der this arrangement there will be rail-
road, on almost an air line from Chicago,
through Winona and the most important
business towns of the State on the Missis-
sippi river, to st. Paul, and thence to the
Red River of the North. AS section of
this grand line of road, the present Inc
from ST. Paul to Watab assumes more i'm
portance than ever before. 8