Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1880-08-28
RAIL, RIVER AND LAKE.


to Tsylors Falls The N. r. Mountain
Pass In MISREPRESENTATION Cnmpaa-
les as Express Carriers-fncroasing River
and Ocean Commerce OF New Orl sans
Two Boats for Fort Benton-St Paul
River and Boat Notes-Arrivals and De-
pa'tures of Minnesota's Lake Port.
MIR. Fl. O. Ives, General Manager Hills pri-
vate secretary, has gone East for recreation,
intending to return next week.
Forty Canadians, each representing family.
are out on the line Of the st. Paul Il Sioux City
road to select lands for homes.
The morning train from Sioux City yester-
day brought i've hunters with 500 prairie
chickens. The hunters were Samuel Doughty,
of Lake City, and Fl. P. Upham, VIM. r. Me.-
RAM, l., Warner and II. e. Thompson of st.
Paul. The chickens were shot near Lu Verne
and Heron lake.
A train consisting of 1858 cars'left Indianapo-
lis in sections recently. Its length was two
and four-tenths miles.
The Omaha Herald warmly welcomes the ar
rival of 8. B. Gault to that oity as general
agent of the Wabash, st. Louis & Pacific COM
pany. The Herald does well in welcoming Mr..
Gault, who could bring first class recommen-
dations if necessary from his last place, st..
Paul.
The O., M. & st. P. river division train, due
here yesterday morning, was delayed five hours
by small washouts below Winona. The road
way vas fully repaired in few hours.
+. +. Clark, general traffic manager of the St.
Paul q Omaha company, has gone to Chicago
on railway business.
1t is asserted that the Deadwood line of the
Milwaukee l. St. Paul company will be laid
this year to fifty miles west of the Missouri.
Mr.. j. Sheets, engineer in charge, has re-
ported favorably to the Northern Pacific COM
pany upon the preliminary survey of the
Natchez Pass of the Cascade Mountains, in
Washington Territory. The sumit was crossed
about forty miles southeast from Wilkeson at
an altitude of about 1880 feet. The ascent
from the west side is easy until the backbone
is reached near the sumit, at which point a
tunnel one mile long will be required. The
descent into Yakima Valley ia said to be much
superior to the approach from the west. The
condition of the pass, it is said, removes all
apprehensions of difficulty from snow; and the
location is fortunate in other respects, as it
secures direct line on the eastern slope of the
Cascades from Ainsworth'to Olympia.
an Old Route Re- Opened to Traues.
In the ancient times of Minnesota, when j /.
T. Williams was, young and John P. Owens was
an innocent newspaper man, people of st. An
thony and st. Paul used to get to st. Croix
Falls by way of road which was not high.
way and yet was something more than trail,
which run through the then wilds of Chisago
county. The old route ia again to be made q
travelling route, with decidedly modern i'm
| provements. Beginning Monday next stages
are TO be run daily between Center City and
Taylors Falls, connecting with the cars on the
St. Paul d Duluth branch from Wyoming,
xrhor NV d.,
on the St. Paul & Duluth train
at 7:45 A. NJ. can reach Taylors Falls in time
for dinner, and passengers leaving Taylofs
Falls at noon or after can reach St. Paul at
P. N. The stage ride will be about nine miles
long, and that will be done away with before
the snow flies next winter by the extension of
the Wyoming branch to Taylors Falls.
Railroads and Kepress Companies.
The st. Louis Raiz,Oay Register of the 25th
has an elaborate editorial in approval of the
plan adopted by the Northern Pacific, Balti.
more & Ohio, Ohio & Mississippi, and other
railroad companies, of doing the express
business Of their lines instead of farming
it out to express companies. It argues that
the railroad companies can serve the public as
well and are more directly responsible, that
they ought to have the earnings of their roads
and that their patrons ought not to be required
to support middlemen when none are neces-
sary. A letter frem General Manager Sargent
is quoted as follows: in the matter of pack
age express per passenger trains, the directors
some time since decided it to be to their inter-
ests as well as the interests of the public along
the line that the company should do this busi-
ness, and arrangements were accordingly made
for its commencement with the beginning of
the present year. The plan is now in opera
ton on all parts of the road the company de-
irving all the revenues received from the pub
lie from the transactions of this branch of
business" In conclusion the Register re-
marks: ct is impossible for the example
thus set not to become universal. When the
changes are made, the advantages seen and the
profits realized, due credit will be given to the
keen and far-sighted men who had the faith
and perseverance, needed to attain the end.''