Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-31
amazement. It is no exaggeration to say

The final link in the present road system
of the company was acquired from the Red
River & Manitoba railroad company, cor
poration organized in the interest of the
Dutch committee, represented by Mr.. Far
Icy, then receiver of the st. Paul & Pacific
and First Division companies. This link
connects the main line at Breckenridge with
the extension line near GAINESVILLE. Order
has come out of confusion. The spirit of
nterprise is released from bondage, and &C.
tive progress has succeeded to hesitancy and
vain struggling under burdensome load of
debt. The new company is firmly seated,
with a valid title and full command of
| abundant resources.
Since the new company obtained possess
sion of the property and its lines of road
have been consolidated the
TRAFFIC HAS INCREASED
that the st. Paul business has been 80 large
ly added to by each extension of road and
addition of territory, that it's increase is yet
greater than the general increase of the
company's business. The amount of the
business at this station, in the absence Of de-
tailed reports, can only be judged from the
fact that since August last it has been an al
most daily occurrence that as many as six
hundred cars were employed in the COM
pany's st. Paul yards; and not infrequently
as many as seven hundred to seven hundred
and twenty-five latter being the highest
number of any one day.
AS this company's lines cross the State in
the northern and central portions of the
the whole valley of the Red
River of the North to the British line, it's
grain carrying business has naturally re-
quired great additions of storage and carry
ing facilities.
FoRTY-NINE NEW ELEVATORS
have been built along its lines since the Is;
of July last-one at St. Paul, with capacity
of 100000 bushels, at Minneapolis, with
capacity of $1,000 bushels, thirteen on
the main line between Minneapolis and
Breckenridge, and thirty-four on the extern
sion and branch lines-the forty-seven way
elevators having an aggregate capacity Of
| about 1900, 1000 bushels. All these are the
additions of the last six months
only. But those who know best
the development of the country
have no doubt but that the managers of the
company's affairs will be embarrassed next
fall and winter by the lack of storage room
for grain along the lines It is remarked by
the company's employees that from new sta
tons where never a bushel of grain was
marketed before, $4,000 to 10000 bushels
each will be shipped of the crop of 1879.
Since the LIST Of July last, the St. Paul &
Manitoba company has purchased 365 new
freight cars and rebuilt so; rebuilt three
passenger coaches; and rebuilt two locomo-
tives and purchased five new ones.
PERMANENT IMPROVEMENTS.
In the same period of six months it has
relaid its track from st. Paul to st. Cloud,
1914 miles, with steel rails, and has perfect
ed the road bed, culverts and bridges.
It has laid, also with steel, 315
miles of q second track out from st.
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Minneapolis the coming season. It has
completed the eighty miles of road between
Alexandria and GAINESVILLE. It has finished
a spur track (he beginning of great west
ern branch) from Orookston, by Fishers
Landing and a bridge over the river into
| Grand Forks, IA ITO miles, and has graded
and made ready for the iron III miles Of
road-bed, westward from Grand Forks
towards Fort Totten. It has relaid portion
of the main line tracks, between Minneapolis
and Darwin, with 63115 tons of iron, re
placing chair iron with. improved rails. 1t
has built new sidings at Sc stations, - miles.
1t has used 137 AS ties in repairs and PAL, >
296 in construction. Bridges rebuilt on
old lines, 49,; bridges repaired, 5; new
turn tables, 4, new engine houses OF
| four stalls and upwards, s; new frost
proof tanks and tank hoases, 8; new wind
mills, -; new passenger and freight depots,
16; new freight houses, 5; new section
houses, IL; new coal sheds and derrick
houses, 4; other new buildings, such as re-
pair and paint shops, ETC., 6; and new track
scales, s. In addition large repairs have
been made to other mechanical structures
and, as far as possible in tho limited time
all the property of the company has been
put into most serviceable condition.
| SUMMARY
New line built, 100 miles; new sidings
built, 1906 miles; relaid with Sc steel rails
1874 miles; relaid with new iron during the
Year,, Is miles; new grading
made ready for track laying
lis miles; bridges built and repaired,
49, new mechanical structures, 70. The
lumber used in the buildings and bridges
amounted to 5000, 796 feet. The total OF
excavations for new roadway, sidings and
track yards, for the six months, is 1,4s4,e15
cubic yards. The new elevators, not includ-
ing st. Paul and Minneapolis. have taken
probably 2, 900 feet of lumber. Iron ties
were used for eighty miles of the new
line.
For the year 1880 the company proposes
prosecuting its Fort Totten branch, relayine
the min lines with steel rail, additions t.
rolling stock, increasing facilities at it,
way stations and continuing it's
IMPROVEMENTS AT ST. PAUL.
The latter, inaugurated this year, (besidef
the great elevator being built under agree
ment with the company by the St. Paul Ele
vator Company includes the headquarters
building, now approaching completion, two
freight houses, completed, and the enlarge
ment OF freight and transfer yards. The
headquarters building, designed to accom-
modate all the general Offices of the com
pany, is brick building so by 10 feet