Bismarck tri-weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1875-1881, 1877-10-24
BISMARCK, D. T, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 24 1877. 3. S
BOTH BRANCHES COMPLETED.

BOTH BRANCHES COMPLETED.
Passengers Through From St. Paul
Last Evening via the Glyndsn Cut
O&-Time 27 Hours-The Last
Brainerd Branch Spike Driven.
The first train from ST. Paul via the
st. Paul & Pacific, now completed from
Breckenridge to Glyndon, came through
Monday night leaving St. Paul at $40
p: m. At Glyndon the passengers
changed cars and arrived here last eve
ming in twenty y-seven hours. The pas
sengers leaving St. Paul Monday morn
ing via the N. P. Junction, arrived here
1t the same time. Col. A. P Connolly, of
the st. Paul Dispatch, was one of the
former. He has met with big success in
establishing agencies for his paper and
is honestly surprised at the country and
enterprise he sees. The Dispatch, OF
Monday, he handed US last evening, con-
tanned the following congratulatory an.
nouncement: cat $40 to-day the first
through train leaves St. Paul via the
Main L ne St. Paul 6 Pacific railroad
for Litch6eld, Willmar, Benson, Breck-
enridge, Glyndon, MooIhead, Pembina,
Winnepeg, Bismarck, Deadwood, aad
all beyond! This is the opening of new
era to the commerce and journalism Of
St. Paul. Ever alive to all opportunities,
the Di spatch sends out on that train a
special commissioner to report its pro
gross, and to make arrangements at all
the towns and cities reached by it for
news and circulation. And this edi>
tion will be carr ed by that train to the
remotsst corners of that region.
The Dispatch tenders its congratula-
tions to the people Of this territory. It
already has many friends and subscri-
bers there. There are now eager in.
quiries for added circulation. We shall
supply the demand to the fulles. meas
ure of our ability. The Dispatch will
go daily on this train carrying fifteen
honrs later news than the morning pa
pers, at only about half the cost. And
within one hundred mics of St. Paul
it will overtake and pass the papers
which left here the morning before.
Hurrah! then for the first 'Dispatch"
train, to the Northwest
THE BRA1NERD BRANCH.
The Dispatch alss contains the fol-
lowing item Of good hews: "Hon. F. r.
Delano having witnessed about noon Of
Saturday the driving Of the last spike
for connecting the track of the Brain
erd Branch railroad, running from Sauk
Rapids on the st. Paul & Pacific to
Brainerd on the Northern Pacific, with
the tracks of these TIVE roads, returned
to st. Paul to spend the Sabbath with
his family and friends. From him we
learn that though the main track is
completed, the contractor has some
eight to ten days work yet to do in bal
lasting, surfacing and side-tracking to
complete the road for business, and the
road will not probably be open for busi-
ness until about Nov. 1st.
Mr.. Delano says the track is one of
the finest in the State, and that even
now fifty miles an hour can safely be
made over it,.
There are seven stations on the IS
miles of line between Sauk Rapids and
Brafherd, as follows, going west from
Sauk Rapids: Watab, Rice, Bellevue,
Little Falls, Belle Prairie, Fort Ripley
and Grow Wing. At each of these sta
tions the necessary depot buildings are
being constructed as rapidly as it is pos
sible to rush the work.
As yet no arrangements have been
made as to running arrangements with
the St. Paul & Pacific, but Nr. Sargent,
the new General Manager Of the North
ern Pacific, will be here probably to-
and then the different parties
in interest will undoubtedly be able te
unite upon terms advantageous to ALL"