Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-04-29

the vast American railroad system. the trade
of which is in all respects truly amazing"
The internal commerce of this country has
vastly exceeded its foreign commerce ever
since steam came into common use on the
water ways of the country. But there has
never been time when internal commerce
was more prosperous than it was in the days
when our fore On commerce was most free.
The Louisville & Nashville railway system
is now the fourth in point of mileage on this
continent. It embraces 300 miles of roads.
There are 8,168 miles in the Gould system.
The Pennsylvania roads controlled by Col.
Scott have a mileage of 5,400, and the Van
derbilt roads are 1897 miles in length, in
Guiding the Chicago q Northwestern, IN
which Mr.. Vanderbilt has an interest
sufficiently large to entitle him to deciding
voice in its management.
The Minneapolis & st. Louis and st. Paul d
DaIWth.
A New York telegram of Tuesday evening
stated that the Minneapolis & st. Louis COM
panY had contracted with the st. Paul &
Duluth company for the joint use of the
main line of the latter from White Bear to
Duluth and also of the branch line building
from White Bear to Wyoming, and to be
built to the st. Croix. This rep TT was not
confirmed at the st. Paul 81 Duluth head
quarters here yesterday but, in the absence
of President Ilsley, who is in New York, it
was supposed that negotiations to that end
might be in progress, in which General Man
ager Hatch, also in New York, represented
the Minneapolis & st. Louis company. But,
as the directors of the st. Paul q Dalath
company are to meet in New York next Mon
day, it was thought that the report of such
a contract having been made was at least
premature. Yesterday, however, President
Washburn, of the Minneapolis Il st. Louis
company, telegraphed to the Minneapolis
Tribune from Washington, as follows soar
company leases the joint independent use of
the Duluth railroad from White Bear Lake to
Dulnth for five years, for both freight and
passenger business, and unites with the Du
luth company in building the road from
Wyoming to Taylors Falls.". 1t is to be
presumed, therefore, that the officers and
directors OF the st. Paul & Duluth company
have agreed to the contract, as re-
ported, and that it will be for
mally ratified by the directory. The
Minneapolis company had good basis for
opening negotiations IN the fact that the leg
islature has voted to it a grant of lands ap-
pertaining to the road early projected to the
st. Croix river. 1t appears to be q part of
the bargain that the Minneapolis company
will abandon its project of extending its
White Bear branch to Tsylors Falls. This
will give the land grant-which the
st. Paul company has continued to
claim, Notwithstanding the Legislative
vote-to the Taylors Falls branch
of the st. Paul road. If the Minneapolis
company should finally conclude to build, as
it has heretofore proposed, an independent |
line through northwest Wisconsin to Lake
Superior, it is to have the joint use of the |
st. Paul track to Taylers Falls, from which |
place it will start its Lake Superior line.
In connection with this part of the agreement |
between these two companies it is reported |
at Minneapolis that a contract was recently |
entered into by the Minneapolis 4 st. Louis |
and the Chicago, st Panl & Omaha compa- |
MES, under which the latter company will |
have the right to send trains into Minneapo-
lis from the Sioux City road and branches |
over the Minneapolis road, in consideration |
of giving the former company ths use of |
the North Wisconsin track from connec-
ton to be made from Taylors Falls. This
reported bargain may be presumed to &C.
count for the short term of the new contract
for the use of the st. Panl d Duluth road
way. While at first presentation,
this bargain between the NJ. &
st. l.. and st. P. & D. companies may seem
to give the former a base for independent
action, and to be in the patriotic line of
Lake Superior transportation
study of the details, with knowl-
edge of the situation of the Minneapolis
roads southern connection, will justify
suspicion that the NJ. & st. Louis has drop
ped into the folds, and will, sooner or later.
be swallowed by the same anaconda which
has swallowed the st. Paul q Sioux City.
About 100 car loads of laborers, graders
tools and supplies and construction materials
we're moving westward over the Hastings &
Dakota road yesterday, and should have ar
rived at Ortonville yesterday afternoon and
asst night. The most of the men were
brought from the Chicago, Milwaukee & st.
Paul company's construction works
IN southern Dakota, which seem
10 have been temporarily abandoned to meet
where the Milwaukee company has planned
|
yency is, in the absence of any definite in
formation as yet obtainable here, can only
De judged from what little is publicly known
IF the operations of other companies. If the
Northwestern company has finally concluded
20 extend the main line of the Winona d st.
Peter road from Lake Kampeska into the
Jim river valley, or if there is any conflict
ior territory between the Milwaukee COM
oany and the st. Paul & Manitoba company,
which is building to Browns valley on the
Dakota line and will probably soon begin an
other branch, to run from Breckenridge to
Casselton,l either fact would ex-
plain this haste to build the Has
tings 4 Dakota extension. The Mil
waukee company has had several parties of
surveyors out, in different directions from
Ortonville, so that the direction its extension
line will take is uncertain; but it is report
ed, through roundabout channels, that the
final decision is to build the extension
northwsrd to Fargo, and that contracts have
been let for grading, bridging and ironing
half the distance. If that be true, the
Milwaukee company is trying to head
off. the Manitoba company. If it is
only partly true, then the Milwaukee
company is trying to reach Browns Valley
first but, if it does not build from there to
jamestown is more likely to push for Cassel-
ton than for Fargo that is, if g long line is
still considered by railroad managers a dis