Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-12-31

ready for the track; and new branch
line of the West Wisconsin road has been
graded and made ready for the track,
from MERRIAM to Neillsville, a distance of
IL miles.
The work of lettering the property and
providing additional buildings, shops,
equipment, etc., has also been carried on
extensively during the year. Over ninety
miles of steel rails have been laid in place
of iron on the main line between st. Paul
and Sioux City, and there has been a
general Improvement of the tracks by
new ties and gravel ballast, while the
plan of replacing old wooden bridges
with permanent structures of stone and
iron has been steadily pursued. The To-
connective equipment west of St. Paul has
been increased from SO to Ga engines, and
the car equipment has been more than
doubled; and the rolling stock of
the divisions east of st.
Paul has been increased in about
the same proportion The round houses
at st. James and Sioux City have each
had eight stalls added to them, and many
other station and local improvements
might be enumerated if space allowed.
AS to the proposed extensions of this
wear nothing more is known than that it
is intended at the West to early complete
the Norfolk road, and on the East the
North Wisconsin, will, if possible, this
year be finished and opened to Lake
Superior, and the Mcmillan branch will
be opened as soon as the track can be
laid.
IMPROVEMENTS AT ST. PAUL.
These, though not altogether the same
as predicted a year ago, are more than
equal to what was promised. About half
of the 40 acres of land in the Fourth ward,
near the river, secured for the St. Paul 6
Sioux City shops, has been graded. A round
house of brick, with 90 stalls, has been
built, and foundations have been laid for
a boiler shop and machine shop the lat
ter S0X250 feet on the ground, About
one million Of brick for construction of
buildings has been delivered and the
grading is ready for erection of the en-
CINE, car, blacksmith and paint shops,
storehouSe, etc.
The local freight business of the west
ern divisions is carried on in the lcvee
yards and buildings of the st. Paul &
Sioux City company. For the local bust
ness of the eastern divisions new freight
yard is being made on the swamp lots
obtained for that purpose below Broad
way About six half blocks have been
filled up to grade during the year and on
this filling between one and half and
two miles of track has been laid and q
freight house has been built, 80 bv 45t
feet.
The general exchange of carload
frcights is made at the new East st. Paul
yards, where within the year sixteen acres
of ground has been graded and nearly
covered with side tracks A round house
with sixteen stalls has been built here
and improvements are still going on to
adapt the yard to the very large business
centering there
AT the corner OF Fourth and Rosabe]
streets the headquarters building is APP
preaching completion. 1t occupies two
full lots, and is 60 by 12O feet
three stories, with basement and man.
sard. The walls have been finished this
winter, the roof is now going on and it is
expected the building will be ready fol
occupancy about the first of April
next 1t is permanent, hand
some structure, of pressed brick and
Frontenac stone aIIdl will have cost, COM
pleted, about 100000. When first planned
il w thought by some of the parties in
terested that it would furnish moro room
than would be needed for years, but the
increased business of all the offices, now
scattered in three separated buildings
will require every room in the large new
building, and the officers are congratulate
ing themselves upon the coming convent
ence of being near together
st. Paul &c Siouc City Lands.
The st. Paul 6 Sioux City land depart
mem is run in two divisions-one repre-
senting the original ST. Paul & Siou
City company and the other the origina
Sioux City & ST. Paul company. In thu
first division there remains unsold $50 ,50(
acres, situated in the Minnesota counties
of Brown, Blue Earth, Watonwan, Mar
tin, Cottonwood, Jackson, Murray Noble!
and Rock. 1t is generally rolling prairi,
land and is well watered by numerous
lakes and streams. In the second division
there remains unsold 303, 900 acres O
which lis, 900 acres is in the southwes
counties of Minnesota and 1876, 900 in tn,
northwest counties of Iowa. 1t is gener
ally rolling prairie land and is amply
watered by many running streams and ;
few lakes.
The immigration into the regions wher'
these lands are located has for the las
year or two been increasingl,
of English and American
families. About one hundred and fiftl
English families have located on the rail
way lands in Iowa in 1880, principal,
IN Lyon, Plymouth and Sioux counties
Most OF the railway lands in Dickinson
county were sold about year ago t.
Englishmen. In Osceola county, Iowa
these lands are being taken largely b,