Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-11-24
EARNINGS
.sS55. 7O2 93 s5l5. 2S7 sf

Totals. 1856, 7O2 90 S5l5,2S7 Sc
The expenses for the last year being S5
per cent, of the earnings.
On the gross earnings of this last wear the
company will pay the State tax amounting
to S16,103.32.
The NeU Wisconsin, .e Minnesota Line.
A representative of the GLOBE journeyed
to Abbotsford, Wis. and back, Monday, on
the first passenger train of the Wisconsin &
Minnesota company. Not counting the Of
ficers of the company, Mr.. Hiland of the
Omaha line, who WAS with them, or
the newspaper deadheads, there was but
one passenger on board when the train
pulled out from st. Paul. He was ticketed
through to Neenah, Wis, and had car all
to himself until way-passengers began to
come In. These came and wont by the score
at Eau Claire, Chippewa Falls, Cadott,
Stanley and Abbotsford-mostly lumber
men going to their winters work in the
woods, SO that on the round trip about three
hundred passengers were taken up. OF
course there were delays. New brooms NAV
sweep cleanly, but new railroads, new cars
and new trains do not run smoothly at the
first trial. There was an upset freight car
on the track, to be moved; there was q
coupling pin too short 80 that the engine
ran away from the train several times, and
then the air brake got into way of setting
itself-so that it was pa. NJ. instead of P. M.
when the train steamed back to the depot in
st. Paul. Yesterday things worked better,
and the new train came and went nearly on
time. The hours at which it runs makes it
more convenient for the people of Chippewa
Falls, Eau Claire and Mezomonie having
business in st. Paul, than the night train
from Chicago, and it will have considerable
travel in from those cities. The transpor-
tation of lumbermen and lumbering sup
plies will be an important part of the traffic
of the road, giving it way business far be-
yond that of new roads in the West ordina.
rily. It will also inevitably have large
through traffic, both in passengers and
freight, just as soon as the business men of
st. Paul, Menasha, Appleton, Green Bay,
etc., learn what exchanges of products they
can proitabiy make. it's, perhaps, more
than probable that considerable grain and
-four will be sent East by this line and that
some of our exports of coal and other COM
modities will come that way.
The connecting link, Just completed, and
now beginning to be operated, from Chippe-
va Falls to Abbotsford, tIaverses q valuable
forest region, where important manufac-
lures are likely to be established. It traverses
few belts of good pine but the most of the
forest is hard wood, suitable for slaves and
timbers, furniture, etc. Settlers are
already going in, attracted by the promise of
making good farms and being we'll paid for
clearing them. Hotels and boarding houses,
mills and shops are projected, and Messrs.
Wancfar and Lawson of
ting in hub and spoke factory, which they
have nearly ready for the machinery. There
is room and good timber along the fifty four
miles of new road between Chippewa Falls
and Abbotsford, enough for a hundred man.
ufacturing establishments, and all their
manufactures could be sold and are needed
at st. Paul.
At Eau Claire and Chippewa Falls it is
said that 1t Is impossible to obtain cars
enough for the western shipment of lutnbe,
produced by the mllls which are saving fol
the railway trade. Some of the sawmill com.
panies are attached by habit and financial
arrangements to the old river course OF
trade, but it is possible that when the rail
way shipping facilities are increased the
most of the immense lumber pro
duct of the Chippewa valley will pe
to its markets by rail. For this purpose th,
Chippewa Falls people want a connection
with the Green Bay road, so that they ca,
ship west on the Winon4 & st. Peter road
While some of the lumber trade may thus b.
kept from the st. Paul lumber line, this ney
road, nevertheless, is likely to contribut.
hervily TO the st. Paul lumber business.
Is There Fuel Famine:
After being visited by the chamber of com
merce committee Monday, Gov. Pillsbury
bearing in mind that no complaints of fue
scarcity had been sent ts him, though ordi
narily he is quickly appealed to in eyery cas-
OF threatened or imagined public distress
sent kilograms to parties supposed to be wei
informed, residents of the places where ther
was said to be scarcity of fuel, inouirin
into the matter. Yesterday he recsiyed re-
plies as follows:
SOME DoLEFUL REPRESENTATIONS
MURDOCH, MINI. Nov. 22.-No wood sine
last Wednesday. Wood paid for nearly on
month ago not here yet. Fuel company re
port no cars for coal shipments. Much sui
fering has already ensueo.
VAN CLEvE g. WADswoRrH.
DE GRAFT, Mimi, Nov. 22.-People i
this vicinity are suffering severely for war
of wood. JOHN P. CoRCoRAN, p. M.
MORRIS, Mimi, Nov. 22.-Wood dealer
here have no wood on hand. Coal supply
exhauated Thera will ha a fan,ipa ", Lo+