Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-12-17
THE UNION DEPOT.
ION OF De1ay-Size OF Hui1dinE-Cost
Whole Improvement 100000.

Whole Improvement 100000
At the regular meeting Of the council held
two weeks ago, resolution was adopted re-
questing the Union Depot company to an
swer series Of questions: First in order,
to give some idsa of tho plans, Dimensions,
etc., of the proposed depot; secondly, when
work was going to commence, etc. Yester
day communication was submitted to the
council, in reply, which embodies go much
information about the Union Depot, that it
is published herewith: E
ST.. PAUL, Mimi, Dec. Is. 1879.
To the Honorable the City Council Of st. Paul,
Minnesota ....- a
GENTLEMEN: The secretary of the St. Paul
Union Depot company has the honor to &C
knowledge tho receipt of resolution passed
by your body on the I'd inst and Of the follow
ing tenor:
"Resolved, That the Union Depot company
are hereby requested to transmit, officially and
| in writing, to this council, a statement show.
ing the size, and plan, and location of the So
called Union Depot; also to specify when it
will begin the erection of the same"
1t is impossible to furnish you with
an officially approved plan of the
depot, since copy. Of the final APP
proval Of plan with exact dimensions has
been delayed till the company should receive a
the city council relative to vacating and open
| ing of public streets: -
Ground available fora depot purposes is, at
best, limited and the desire is to adjust the plan
| to the ground and to the streets.
A committee has carefully considered the
| question of plans for the building, and will
promptly report definite plan as soon as the
! boundaries of the ground and public street re-
| strictions are fixed. -..
The Saint Paul Union Depot company has
| made provision for an immediate working cap
| ital of $4,000, and is ready to at once COM
mence operations and to do some fifty thousand
cubic yards Of grading during the present win
ter, provided it can get deed for the ground
and favorable action relative to public
| streets. The deed has been
prepared and agreed upon, but the signatures
are withheld, am told, only till simultane-
Gus conveyance can be made to the Chicago,
| Milwaukee Il st. Paul Railway company of
glound situated between the Union grounds
and the Mississippi river. This latter convey
| ance is delayed by reason of claims by the city
OF public levee rights over that portion Of the
grounds where the Milwaukee company de-
slgned erecting large st. Paul freight house.
| The ground claimed by the city as public
levee being the only portion of the tract avail
| able for 3 freight depot it seems that further
progress In the Union depot project must await
| some compromise or ad iustment of this outside
conveyance
| lnc!osed Is 8 tracing OF ground plan for
the Union Depot that has met with general
approval, except a desire to increase the size if
space can he obtained
The main building, containing waiting rooms
| and restaurant, baggage, ticket, parcel and
train dispatcher's Offices, etc., fronts toward
Sibley street 1870 feet, and extends east, in
depth, ITO feet.
The width of street space in front is 100
feet, and on the north side fifty feet.
| An awning roof projects on all sides fifteen
to thirty feet beyond the building so that the
space under roof is l60 by 1855 feet.
In the rear, and extending nearly to Broad
way, is the train house, $50 by $40 feet.
The cost of the buildings will DO about $780,.
0OO, and of the whole property when improved
about 100000. Very respectfully,
| JOHN d. EsTABRooK, Seo'y.