Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-05-22

ing the stone building on the Union depot
grounds, wss increased yesterday.
Langdon & Co.'S men are moving the dirt
all along the st. P. & M. branch, from Nor
ris to Browns Valley.
The narrow gauge survey for the Mime
apolis Northwestern road has not been
adopted by the st. P. d NJ. management,
but even if new survey is required it Is
expected to begin the grading Irregular gauge
early in the summer.
General Manager Hill will return from
Grand Forks Sunday.
Israel Grams, of Hudson, Wis, has the
contract for filling the Northern Pacific
freight yard, and is to take the earth from
one of the hills near Lafayette avenue.
The Northern Pacific contracts freight to
points on its new line beyond the Missouri,
but is not yet prepared to make through pas
senger rates to the same points.
Eleven car loads of buffalo robes and
deer-skins were delivered here, by the
Northern Pacific yesterday Five we're con-
signed to P. Fl. Kelly q Co., and the rest
were for the east.
The work of enlarging the cuts and grades
of the O., M. & st. P. short line for double
the bridge contractor fulfills his promise to
national anniversary may be celebrated by q
ride over the short line.
Owing to the change of running arrange
ments on the st. p. NJ, & M. railway, the
train leaving st. Paul at P. NJ, will on
Saturdays run only to Fergus Falls. Trains
for Wayzeta will leave st. Paul daily st 1925
i. NJ, and $40 P. M; and, returning, leave
Wayzeta A. M, and 5:45 P. M, reaching st.
Paul at 1925 A. NJ, and 7:10 P. NJ.
Land Commissioner Drake returned
from the west yesterday, after showing the
party of Liverpool grain merchants Sioux
Falls and its water power, the Graham Lakes
and E. F. brakes farm, Heron Lake, VIM
dom, Barden's stock farm, the Rock Valley,
etc. The Liverpool gentlemen admired the
country much and agreed that Mr.. Finley
Dun was not extrRvagant In his praises of
1t.
The O., st. p, M. & G. company is pre-
pairing to erect new and larger round
house at st. James.
Messrs. Randall & Blaisdell are contract
ors for part of the extension of the North
Wisconsin road, to be graded this season.
Negotiations are pending for the erection
of another saw mill above Knife Falls, and
for the extension to the mill of the Knife
Falls branch of the st. Paul q Duluth rail-
road.
A depot is being erected at Heron Lake by
the @, st. p, M. & @. company, in place of
of the one recently destroyed by fire.
The O., M. & st. P. company is now rum
ming passenger trains through between Dav-
export, Iowa, and st. Paul Uja Oalmar,
Iowa.
The annual meeting of the st. Paul &
Duluth company is to be held in this city
Monday next
The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy is just
placing on the Chicago end of Its line, as an
experiment., the Union Electric Signal Com
pany's electric signals. The features of the
new system are that the rails are attached to
electric batteries, and when the train strikes
the rails to which the circuit is applied, the
signal shows when the track section is clear
and the rails in good condition. Ii always
shows danger if the circuit is impaired. If
the battery is out of order the signal also
shows danger. If switch is open the dan
ger is revealed by the signal.
The meeting of the Association of Railway
Purchasing Agents at Chicago this week
adjourned to meet again at st. Louis the
third Tuesday iu May. 1881. The meeting
was very tame one, and the slim attend
ance caused general criticism. It is the
general opinion that the next meeting will
be the last one of the association, there be-
ing not enough interest taken in the organ
ization to warrant its further continuance.
The New York Midland railroad has
passed into full possession of Samuel j.
Tilden and his associates of the N. Y, O..
& w. company, who will. it is said, give it
connections with New York and the West,
thus constituting it part of new trunk line
in competition with the Erie and Central
roads.
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