Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-09-21
THE PROMISED LAND.
Another Party of Distinguished Railroad
Gentlemen Visiting minnesota.

desire to visit Minnesota and see for
themselves the great wheat land of tho coun
try, seems to have taken possession of the
leading railroad men of the country. The
GLOBE has mentioned the presence of many
such parties during the present summer, only
the yesterday issue having a column of its
space devoted to an account of the visit of
party composed of large number
of general ticket agents of the leading
railroads of the country. This party had
hardly turned their backs upon st. Paul and
set their faces homeward before another
party of distinguished magnates put in their
appearance. This party consists of ten gen
tlemen from the far eastern State of Yer
mont, connected with the railroad and trans
portation system of that State, of which the
Central Vermont railway is the parent stem.
Among the party is Mr.. w. w. Hungerford,
we'll known in st. Paul from a five years
residence here, engineer and assistant
superintendent of the St. Paul & Duluth
road then Lake Superior & Mississippi rail
road) and later superintendent of the
Northern Pacific railway. With this
exception the gentlemen composing
the party are entire strangesr
to Minnesota, except as they have read of it
in the press and in the correspondence of
friends. But the forty million bushels of
| wheat of last season, and the rapid settle
ment of the State, and the wonderful de-
velopment of its industries, has travelled
fast, and hence the present visit was pro-
jected that they might see and Judge for
| themselves of this but a few years ago VERT
able terra 1lcognltG. The party have trav-
eiled all the way from Vermont in the bust
ness car Bellevue, of the Cen
| tral Vermont road, with stops
| at Chicago, Milwaukee and other
points. AT Milwaukee the car was attached
to the regular passenger train on the Chica-
go, Milwaukee d st. Paul railway for st.
Paul, reaching here at 3 P. NJ. yesterday ar
ternoon. At the depot they were met by
Mr.. Sanborn of the Northern Pacific, and
escorted to the Metropolitan, where apart
ments had been reserved for their accom-
mediation. The party consists of the fol-
lowing gentlemen:
w. w. Hungerford, General Superintendent
of the Ogdensburg & Lake Chanplain rail
| road.
Col. George W. Bentley, General Manager of
the Central Vermont railway.
Hon. Fl. Hosford General Manager of the
Boston, Lowell & Nashua railroad.
Ii. L. Chamberlain, General Superintendent
VI Tue Cohcoru failroad ana branches.
Lansing Mills. general traffic manager of the
Central Vermont railway.
Robert Kerr, general traffic agent of the
Northern railway of Canada and Collingwood
line.
Col. John Il. George, solicitor of the Boston,
Lowell u Nashua railroad Company.
Robert Colt, President Of the New London &
Northern railway.
Charles Barnes, secretary and treasurer of
the New London q Northern railway.
b. B. Smalley, secretary and director OF the
Central Vermont and Rutland railways
The party will visit Minneapolis to-day,
returning for the sabbath in St. Paul. and
Monday morning will leave for trip over
the Northern Pacific to Bismarck.
Soldiers Additional Homesteads for sale by
MORTON, MOORE d Co.,