The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1866-09-13
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with the depot Of the St: Paul and St. Cloud
Railroad, on tho east side Of Tho river, is
progressing with wonderful rapidity. and
but = short time must elapss before they
viii be entirely finished, We:w,re over on
Wednesday, and from Gen. N. T. Thomas,
Assistant Engineer; who has: had entire
charge Of the construction ofthe road from
Big Lake to this place, and Of the depot,
learned the details concerning the improve
ments being made by the Company. u
The main building is 50 feet wide by l61
feet long. The north end is being finished
for passengers room, and is,16x3O. Al
joining this are the ticket office and bag
gag room, each 16xls. The remainder 81
the building, s0xs0, viii be used Is 4
freight room. =, The entire building i, sur
rounded BY = ls:foot vid. platform, s-ineh
plank, with 100 feet Of additional platform
At the ends. This building is constructed
substantially throughout.
An engine house is being constructed a
tho south end Of the depot, on The opposite
side Of the traek-the main building being
on the west eide, next 70 st.; Cloud: IL is
soze4. With tws stalls "A, lstgs< water
tank 10 being built beside II! IL ~, s., :,
Just opposite these viii b commenced q
once the erosion Of :, grain elevator. 24x
50, and II nsr VIA . ctpso1ty Of
&C, 900 bushel1, ~, i ,,;,; -: v::a..;
There ~ 1000 TT; Il sids tre sk: Ths
%.t.rn talls': .x,s: % n soa Tup,d.y. -
*1at ths lesdRosi3.G YIN. ng 1etixy1ay,
- undergo ths humiliation Of; ''bsskine
down. IN egdae to retar1 L Ct. Peal.
An - Qonpaay'a hulldinss vim b 4a-.
[[iihhsd ~ aid: 1aintsd IN Arst-elaea stylsI
Il Ii BEN stltsd that Il wss III intention
'efths Company to 1.mov. them In short
time, but Gen. Thomas says this is not 20,
that these buildings ere intended 70 reeniin
Just whore they nov ore. They are with
in 1000 feet Of the Mississippi, which is as
close Is they could be placed On the line
Of the road, and the distance ffcm the d.
pot to st. Cloud, including the crossing Of
the river, is but little over quarter Of a
mile. They are located so as SO be cen
trail, Is may be judged from the fact that
Chapel street-on the corner of which street
and Washington avenue The JOURNAL
ofhee Esta,is-if extended, would run d.
rsotly to tho depst thus dividing the DIS
tahce between thstw ends Of town.
In addition to the buildings erected by
the Company are several others. kr:+iss7j
iah Foster - putting up : tve-story house,
SOx4O, to be used as hotel and railroad
boarding house. Capt. c. G. Wood has we'll
nigh completed airestaurant, 20xs0. Mr..
Jesse Clark and John Yankee are each
putting up saloons, 1928. So that there
seems to be springing up quite little vii
lage, with oil the accomplishments Of bus
tie, noise and activity.
The main track has been extended about
one thousand feet beyond the depot, in the
direction Of Sank Rapids. twill not prob
ably be pushed any further this season.. :
The ticket Office will be opened early
next week, At which time two daily pas
senger trains will commence running. The
time table has not yet been prepared, but
It will be so arranged that passengers can
spend about three hours either in St. Cloud
nr q pou1 nuI ~otn.~ - A. s.i A.:
This will be Of great advantage to. business
men. The management of this end Of the
route, in oil that regards passenger and
freight business, VIII pe unaer .nv v.v.-
sive charge Of Mr.. ": ". Wright, who has
kept at the advance posts Of the road since
it commenced running this way. .
Crowds of men are busily at work bal
lasting the new road, and it is expected to
have it all in excellent order by the close
Of the present month. The distance from
St. Paul to St. Cloud, by rail, is seventy
six miles. The present running time is
four hours and quarter. When the road
is oil ballasted it will be four hours, and
next season about three hours.
The present rolling stock of the Company
consists Of engiues,.3 first-class passen-
ger cars, baggage cars, % box cara and
20 fiat cars. Two more frst-class passen-
ger cars are expected daily.
We might here state that the lumber for
the Railroad buildings, 1000 feet, was
oil purchased here. It was procured at
Mr.. c. Bridgman's mill, and Gen. Thomas
says that it is the best lot of lumber that
has been obtained this season along the en-
tire line Of the road. .:
In giving the.e details. we cannot but
speak Of the part taken by Gen. Thomas in
pushing forward the road aud the bu;ldin ss
with the dispatch that was desired Ivy the
Company. He has been constantly on tie
work, end has labored hard to bring into
Northern inAesota, At the time promised,
the pioneer road, the whistle Of whose To-
eomotives may now daily be heard: We
are glad to learn that there it a prospect
Of his becoming q resident Of eur city.
FoR THE EAsr.-Mr. Joseph Capser, d
the firm Of Linneman & Capser, Of Sauk
Centre, was in town yesterday, and tool
the noon train for the East, where, he goes