Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-04-26

here to examine the st. Anthony water
power and advise the new owners as to the
best means for making it all available, has
returned to his home in the East, and will
there prepare his report on the water power
for the st. Paul & Manitoba managers.
The st. Paul & Manitoba company has
taken considerable area of land in st. Paul
for its uses, there being about thirty eight
acres appropriated for freight yards, etc.,
and about eighty acres for the shop yards,
and for elevator B.
The present plan for improvement of the
roadway of the st. Paul & Manitoba COM
pany between st. Paul and Minneapolis con-
templates besides the extension of the double
steel track the laying of third track, ex-
clusively for freight trains. This increase
of tracks appears necessary to the accommo-
dation of the Chicago, st. Paul & Minneapo-
lis company's business with Minneapolis, on
account of the great increase of the st Paul
& Manitoba's traffic.
Three more train loads of settlers, from
the Eastern States and Canadas, are expected
here this week.
The grading of the Morris branch of the
st. Paul d Manitoba road, from Morris to
Browns Valley, has been sub-let by Shepherd
& Linton in sections of ten miles each.
Two of the sub-contractors began work last
week and others will begin as soon as
the company's engineers have staked the
way. Probably all will be at work
within a week from to-day.
Mr.. o. G. Green, experimenting tele-
grapher of the Northern Pacific, has returned
to st. Paul, after leave of absence which
he enjoyed in the South.
A $4,000 hotel is to be built at Valley
City, Dakota, this season. Valley City is
the station between Tower City and James
town and is fast growing place.
The st. Paul & Manitoba land department
sold Saturday seven sections of Red River
lands to a party of Canadians and English
men who will open several big wheat farms
this season.
Thirteen side and switch tracks, in all
about 5000 feet, are being laid by the St.
st. Paul & Manitoba company in the yard of
elevator B.
The preliminary surveys have been made
for the projected Austin & Mankato railroad,
and the notes thereof, with detailed de-
scription of the country traversed, are to be
submitted to the Eastern capitalists who are
expected to furnish the money for building
the road. The projectors are confident the
money will be forthcoming.
The present Dominion government prom
ises to aid next season the building of rail
road from the Canadian Pacific, at Lake
Nipissing, to the international boundary on
Lake Superior, on route to be selected with
a view to promoting the construction of the
G. p. on the northern shores of Lake Su-
perior.
Ignite from Bly's mine, about fifty miles
from the Missouri, on the new line of the
Northern Pacific, has lately been tested by
Mr.. j. B. Power, land commissioner of the
N. P, at his Office and at his residence in
this city, with quite satisfactory results. The
tests were made in open CRATES, where it
lasted longer than was to be expected, while
giving out strong, steady heat. In close
stove it would be an economical fuel. Its
heat-giving quality has been shown in test
made at the st. Paul gas works, where from
1000 pounds of the coal was produced $500
feet of gas.
Messrs. Henry, Joy and Baldwin of New
Hampshire, accompanied by Hon. P. Fl.
Rahilly of Lake City, were here Saturday,
en- route to Tintah in Traverse county, to
break their 5000 acres of land in that vi
entity. The New Hampshire gentlemen
brought one hundred horses and fifty men
the latter including ten carpenters and three
blacksmiths- with Mr.. Rahilly will i'm
mediately begin improvements which will
make Tintah one of the most important
of way stations on the st. P. & M. lines.
The Winnebago chiefs have signed an
agreement for granting right of way for the
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Omaha extension, across their tribal reserva-
ton. The consideration to be paid will
probably be fixed by appraisers.
Missouri river men think that the North
western company's talk about crossing the
Missouri at Medicine Island is only talk
Their surveyors are now at work On line
which strikes the river few miles above
Fort Pierre.
The O., st. P. & g. shops at Sioux City
are to be enlarged, the blacksmith shop by
an addition of 100 feet, and the store house
by an addition of forty feet. The
additions will be of brick, and uni
form in design with the other
buildings of the company at that place.
The c., NJ. d st. z. company is about to
build depot, round house and tank at Sioux
City.
The c., M. & st. P. company has lately is
sued revised edition of its "Toarist Man
usl," containing descriptions and fine illus
trations of summer resorts along and near
its lines in Wisconsin, Iowa and Minnesota,
and also the game laws of the three States.
By August 1st next the Chicago, Milwau-
kee q st. Paul company expects to begin
running trains from Lake Michigan to Cedar
Rapids, over the Chicago & Pacific line, re-
Gently acquired by it.
Increased earnings, as compared with the
corresponding periods of last year, continue
to be reported weekly at New York by about
all the Western railroads.
The Maine legislature, at its last session,
provided for the appraisal of all railroad
property in that State, including franchises,
at their cash value, and that upon this valu-
alton tax of per cent. should be annual
ly levied. The governor and council were,
last week, engaged upon the work of ap-
praisal and railroad owners and operators
are looking for the result with great interest.
The Chicago q Northwestern company is
said to be negotiating for the purchase of the
Dubuque d Minnesota railroad. This may
be premature, but it is altogether probable
that the Dubuque & Minnesota will soon be
swallowed either by the Chicago & North
western, the Chicago, Milwaukee q st. Paul,
or the Chicago, Burlington & Quincy COM
pany.
The new time tables on the Northern Paci-
fc and st. Paul & Duluth roads, which went
into effect here yesterday, do not change the
hours of arrival and departure of passenger
trains at st. Paul.
The Chicago, st. Paul & Omaha company,
it is reported, will run Sunday express over
the st. Paul & Sioux City road, beginning
next Sunday, which will arrive and depart
here at the same hours as the weekday
train.
Let's S,CiIsg the RiUer across the Flats.
Those whose lives have been mostly in the
new western country Of the United States
and who are, therefore, unfamiliar with the
radical changes men have elsewhere pro-
fitably made In natural water courses would