Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-31

between st. Paul and Chicago 200 common
box cars, $50 flat cars and ten stock cars,
bringing up its local rolling stock to 1916
box, flat and stock cars. One important
feature of the company's increased traffic is
in the lumber trade, twenty-five to thirty car
loads being brought to st. Paul. daily.
PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS.
This company has also, during the year,
largely increased its facilities for business
by permanent improvements along its line.
At Eau Claire, the midway station, it has
put in three or four miles of side track in
its depot yards, and has erected
largo freight transfer depots. 1t is also put
ting in five or six miles of spur tracks lead
ing to the ten saw mills Of Eau Claire. At
Menomonie the company has laid this year
four or five miles of side and spur tracks,
the latter to Knapp, Stout & Co.'s saw mills
and to the village. Over two miles of track
has been laid during the year at the new
East st. Paul station, where temporary
engine honse, convenient depot and office
building and yardmaster's residence have
also been erected. The depot at Saltwater
Junction has been rebuilt. A neat and con-
venient depot has been built at Fairchild.
Handsome and commodious depots have
been built at Hammond, Eau Claire and Fall
Creek, and the depots at Black River Falls
and Augusta have been repaired and i'm
proved. Other and greater additions. to the
fixed property of the company are contem-
plated for the coming year, and seem to be
necessary to its growing traffic; but until the
arrangements are perfected it cannot be
stated in just what direction or locality these
additions will be made.
IN ST. PAUL.
The st. Paul business of the Chicago,
st. Paul & Minneapolis company has
been nearly doubled during the last year,
and in the construction of its depot grounds
in Stinson's addition, creating the station
named East st. Paul, new departure has
been made which cannot but be continu-
ally operating cause to increase it's business
at this point. This is the terminal business
or freight yard of the company, where all it's
trains are made up and its separation is
made Of cars for transfer to other roads,
Formerly its trains were made up at Hudson
and the extension to St. Paul was operated
on O local basis, but now Hudson is merely
way station and the terminus work has
been moved over to East st. Paul. AS O
matter of fact st. Paul is now the terminus
of the road as we'll as its traffic headquarters,
but the running connections and agreement
of tho several companies give tho Chicago,
st. Paul & Minneapolis company all the ad-
vantages, SO fay as it's patrons are concerned,
Of continuous roadways to Omaha, Bismarck,
Winnipeg Duluth and the principal in
termediate points.
THE DE SOTO STREET BRIDGE.
Among the local improvements by this
company, the De Soto street bridge
should not be overlooked at this
time. Tho company has built it,
as required, during an exceedingly inclement
and expensive season, but it is not in use
and citizens and farmers compelled to
travel along way around because the city has
not constructed the necessary approaches
When these are made the crossing will be
oil that can be desired.
The North Wisconsin.
This road, in progress for connecting the
st. Croix at Hudson with Lake Superior at
Bayfield,, though at present mostly local
road and next a feeder of the eastward
bound traffic of the Chicago, st. Paul &
Minneapolis road, in connection with which
it is operated, being, nevertheless, a consid-
cradle addition to St. Paul, and,
when it is completed, will undoubtedly
become member of the st. Paul railway
system and be mainly employ ed by the bust
ness for which st. Paul is the chief place of
exchange. During the year the track has
been extended to about eighty miles from
Hudson or nearly half way to Lake Superior
Its extension has established number of
new trading points and opened up large
bodies of pine and other valuable woods.
This winter the road has heavy
and peculiar business, in the
bringing out of flrewood and pine logs. A
considerable part of the fuel supply of St.,
Paul is being drawn from this source and
the lumber business is immense, as may be
judged from the pending contract of the
railroad company with firm to bring out
forty carloads of pine logs daily, to Hudson,
until the 1st of April next. Considerable
quantities of sawed lumber are also being
brought out from the line of this road.
mostly for the St. Paul market.
The North Wisconsin road will probably
be completed to bayfield, in 1881. Every
mile it is extended will add to the quantity
of lumber and wood to be hauled, and mean
time the country along the line is also being
developed into considerable source of food
supply. The grain and other farm products
exported from the first forty miles of the
road, and the merchandise, machinery, etc.,
sent in, must in bulk and value count up to
large sums. We have within reach no means
of determining the value of this road to St.
Paul, but We are confident that St. Paul
merchants and lumber and wood dealers,
and the railroad companies whose lines lead
westerly from here, should watch the devel
opment of industries along this North Wis.
consin line and cultivate closer business
connections with the country it penetratas,
MinneS0ta's Railroad Growth.
The first railroad in Minnesota, from St.
Paul to St. Anthony-E. F. Drake, now
president of the St: Paul & Sioux City COM