Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-09-23
St. Paul and Manitoba Ne,v Lines.

MIR. A. b. Stlckney, superintendent of con-
struction for the St. Paul & Manitoba COM
pany. returned from the North yesterday. He
confirms the report heEetofore published in the
GLOBE of his having purchased the right Of
way for his companies, where it is desired to
cross the Northern Pacific with the GAINESVILLE
i Moorhead branch, from the original patentee
and present owners, whose title antedates the
Northern Pacific claim of it's right of way.
Mr. Stickney does not anticipate that the con
struction of the Barnesville branch will be de-
lsyed by the INDUCTION proceedings Of the
Northern Pacific, Oh which a hearing is to be
had before Judge Nelson to day. The grading
from GAINESVILLE towards Moorhead is progress
ing at a rate which promises to make the road
bed ready by the time the track layers
can be spared from the other branches.
Meantime the track is being laid southwark
from Grand Forks Junction towards Fargo, for
connection there with the GAINESVILLE branch.
Track-Iaying will also be resumed in few
days on the Breckinridge branch. now ironed
for seventeen miles and to be completed to
Maple river this fall. On the Morris & Browns
Valley branch the track-layers are making ex-
traordinary progress. Tuesday they laid 900
feet of track or about one and fve-eighths
miles, bringing the track within a short dis
lance Of Graceville, which was probably reach.
ed last night. Graceville is about Is miles
from MOTIFS anu 20 niles more OF GTack Will
take the road into Browns Valley.
Yellowstone and Northern Pacific Products.
Capt. Grant Marsh has forwarded to the
Northern Pacific general offices in this city a
small sample of an extraordinary growth of
wheat. It lisa bunch of large heavy heads
grown near the Yellowstone three
miles below the mouth OF
tha RiU ho do Hn1b two NO
rowed, five to six kernels to the row, and run
about 1870 kernels to the head. The heads are
white. almost beardiess and heavy. It is said
to be of a variety of soft wheat which yields
about sixty bushels to the acre in Montana.
Capt. Marsh intends to experiment with the
variety of wheat IN Northern Dakota.
The Northern Pacific land department is also
in receipt of variety of cultivated products
of the soil, from the vicinity of Miles City and
Fort Keogh, collected and forwarded by Gen.
Nelson Miles. Among the most notable arti-
Giles is quantity of corn raised on the sod by
a Mr.. Bruhus, including Western yellow corn
and eight rowed Yankee flint, fully ripe. the
stalks nine to ten feet high and the ears nine
to ten inches long, large and perfect; and sam
tured, having been cut three weeks ago. There
are good samples of wheat, barley and
oats; excellent carrots, beets and
turnips; fine and large Weathersfeli ard
Danville red and white onions; Early Rose and
Peerless POTATOES, beauties, averaging one
pound eacn in weight; great solid heads of
cabbage, nice filled pumpkins, etc. No one
who sees this selection can doubt that the yell
lewstone Valley is we'll adapted to producing
good and large crops of all Northern food
products.
The same land department is also in receipt
of collection of farm and garden products
from the vicinity of Bismarck, which are to be
sent East to reinforce the exhibition car now
in Quebec and which is coming into Ontario
this week. A larger and very fine collection
from the Wadena county fair will be received
in a few days,