Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-10-03


for st. Paul and ChicaRo-WiM st. Paul
Provide Stock Yards?
Seventeen hundred head of Montana cattle
are being loaded upon Northern Pacific cars
at Mandan, the first station west of the Mis-
souri, river, on the Northern Pacific extern
sion, for shipment to Chicago. These cattle
are the property of Messrs. Martin & Meyers.
of Bozeman, one of the largest stock firms
in the territory, and heretofore shipping to
the eastern market via the Central Pacific,
this being their experimental shipment via
the overland drive to the Northern Pacific,
thence by that road to st. Paul and from
here to Chicago by the Chicago, Milwaukee
& st. Paul road. So
The overland drive has proven more feasi-
bic than was anticipated. Abundance of
water and the richest of grazing was found
the entire distance, and the result is that the
cattle have reached Mandan in better condi-
ton than when the drive commenced. At
Mandan the Northern Pacific have provided
convenient loading facilities, and the great
herd is now being loaded upon three great
trains of thirty-two cars each, the first of
which left Mandan yesterday, another viii
follow to-day, and the other and last to-
morrow. To properly care for the wants of
the animals, the Northern Pacific company
have built transfer yard at Fargo, where
each train will be unloaded, and the cattle
given q rest and feeding spell of twelve
hours. Arriving here, the cattle will again
be unloaded at the yards of the Chicago &
st. Paul company in South Minneapolis, and
given another rest of twelve hours, when
they will be run through to Chicago on fast
time, thus bringing the animals to market
in good condition. es.-s ill.
As was stated in the GLOBE the other day,
the Northern Pacific road is to
be graded this fall to the Little
Missouri river, distance of 40 miles
from the Big Muddy, the track being laid
100 miles of the distance this season and the
remaining forty miles as,soon as the frost is
out Of the ground in the spring, which will
reduce the length of the land drive about
that distance and shorten the time required
to reach Chicago, the great cattle distribut-
ing point. from the plains of Montana, at
least one week.
We have it from a direct source that
Messrs. Martin & Meyers are so we'll pleased
with the outcome of the experimental drive
overland to Mandan and with the excellent
rail facilities afforded them by the Northern
Pacific and the Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul companies that they have determined
to make all their future shipments of cattle
for the eastern markets by this route. Other
large stock men of Montana are preparing
to do the same, and it is asserted that at
low estimate at least 10000 head of Montana
cattle will 60 east by this route next season.
Every shipment of this character must of
necessity be re-shipped at St. Paul, for the
reason primarily, that this city is the ter
minus of the Northern Pacific railroad, and
seoondarily that did the same management
control the road to Chicago, the health and
comfort Of the cattle would require them to
be unloaded here for rest, food and water.
With that sagacity and far-sightedness
characteristic of the man, and which has re-
suited in placing him in the management of
one of the NEST important railroad enter
prises in the country, General Manager s..
D. Merrill, of the Chicago Milwaukee & St.
Paul company, had partially perfected ar
extensive stock yards upon the company's
pot and lying between their track and the
river bank. This location is admirably
adapted for the purpose to which Manager
Merrill sought to devote it. It is directly on
their line and contiguous to the general
transfer yard of the company. It would
equally accommodate the St. Paul & Sioux
City, also, the Minneapolis & st. Louis
road, when it is extended to st. Paul, as it
must be soon, lying, as it does, di-
reotly along their lines, while it would
give the shortest possible transfers to the
Northern Pacific, St. Paul, Minneapolis &
Manitoba, st. Paul & Duluth, Chicago, St..
Paul & Minneapolis and other roads center
ing in st. Paul. In fact, tn ere is no loca-
ton that can be secured for stock yards so
admirably adapted to such use as that which
Manager Merrill desired to appropriate to it,
But the property holders, for reasons un-
tenable in our opinion, objected
to such location, and finding
himself confronted with this oppo-
sition, manager Merrill dropped the project,
temporarily at least. The result is that St.
Paul to-day. while having three distinct and
we'll arranged small stock yards, has not q
yard in the city at which even the present
shipment Of seventeen hundred head of cat
tie now being shipped from Mandan can be
economically handled, and the transfer from
the Northern Pacific to the Chicago, Mil
waukee & st. Paul railway is to be made at
South Minneapolis.
Next season will see the great railroad dis
tributing stock yard for cattle coming from
the great plains of the Northwest permanent
" located. It'll not too late to secure that
location in St. Paul. The question is, will
st. Paul secure it, or will We let it slip
through our fingers, as We have many other
important enterprises that we should have
retained?