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

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building of twenty-three way cars
The size of the new freight cars ordered,
(twenty-ton) suggests big loading. The
box cars, for instance, will carry
700 bushels of wheat. This in
crease of carrying capacity of freight
cars is one of the late features in the
operation of western roads, and has so
far worked satisfactorily. On well bal
lasted roads, laid with steel rail, they are
economical, and they arc coming into use
on most of the grain carrying roads of the
Northwest
PCRCHAsEs AND BETTERMENTS.
President Stephens report of August
18th last, says, as to the year ending June
Both last: "There have been expended on
improvement of the road-bed purchase
of right of way, fencing, water stations,
ETC., $40, 67649 and on new equipment,
S497, 021 go, which sums have been pro-
vided for from funds reserved for that
purpose at the organization of the COM
pany, while more than ordinary expendi-
lures for maintenance and repairs have
been charged to operating expenses. The
real estate purchased and permanent i'm
provements, represented by the sum of
| 1857, 1S5.45 in the general statement, COM
prise the lands acquired by the company
for union depot at Minneapolis and
ground for additional yard room and
work shops at ST. Paul, new general office
building and large freight warehouses at
st. Paul, and other property which add
materially to the value of the company's
assets
In the year 1880 1.-THE GLOBE is in
formed) about 10000 tons of steel and
about 375, 200 ties have been used in re-
laying and improving the main line
tracks. About $50 miles of road bed has
been raised and thoroughly surfaced with
coarse gravel, the supply of which for
about seventy-fve miles had to be drawn
from one pit.
New depots have been built at Ashby,
Hancock and Campbell, and new depots
have been built OF are being built at all
the stations on the new lines, viz: Browns
| Valley line-At Chokio, Graceville,
Beardsley and Browns Valley. Brock
inridge- Casselton line-At Wahpeton,
Dwight, Barrett, Colfax, Walcott, Kin
dred, Williams and Derbin. GAINESVILLE
Grand Forks line-At Elmwood. Moor
head, Fargo, Grandin, Dalrymple, Hill
City, Cummings, Buxton, Reynolds,
and Norton. Grand Forks western line
at Ojata. Frost proof tanks have been
built during the year at st. Paul, Mime
apolis Junction, Anoka, GAINESVILLE,
Glyndon, Aedna, Crookston, Stephen,
Hallock, Grand Forks, Wayzata, Kirkho-
ven, Benson, Morris and Tintah New
coal houses have been put in at Willmar,
Morris, Breckenridge, Fergus Falls,
Glyndon, Crookston, Stephen and ST.
Vincent
ST. PAUL IMPROVEMENTS.
| Except ten-stall temporary engine
house, at the shops in East ST. Paul, and
a new building for storage of cars, the
principal work of improvement at ST.
Paul has been in grading the land pur-
chased for additional shops, preparing
for shortening the line out of the city
raising the grades nine feet at Third street
crossing, making the Fourth street
crossing ready for the city improvement
and filing the city tracks and freight
yards with the earth taken from the shop
grounds. This filling has amounted tc
100000 cubic yards. The Third street
raise of grade was made without inter
ruption of traffic, though trains were
passing with short intermissions at all
hours. The Fourth street crossing is
nearly ready for the paving and masonry
and the company has extended its culverl
there about 100 yards.
During 1881 the company intends tc
| perfect its tracks and grounds in the city
and to increase its shop room and repair.
ing and manufacturing facilities. 1t now
employs in the city about 300 mechanics
and of its total employed force of about
3, 700 men fully one third are residents OF
St. Paul The monthly payroll of the
company exceeds $4,000
| STILL ONWARD.
The energy manifested by the new st
Paul s. Manitoba company, the first veal
of its existence, in completing and i'm
proving the lines it acquired from the St
Paul & Pacific companies and, the SECOND
year, in pushing out branch lines west
ward into Dakota, will not be relaxed thu
coming year The material provided o.
contracted for and the increased equip
ment indicate purpose to build about
200 miles of road in 1881. No announce
ment is officially made as to where thi
new roadway will be laid, but the opera
tons of the past year locate three lines
between which it is likely
to be divided, viz: TIL,
Minneapolis Northwestern, graded t,
Osseo; the Breckinridgs- Casselton, bull
TO within six miles of Casselton, and be
| lieved to be projected to DEVILS Lake
and the GAINESVILLE Grand Forks, nearly
completed, but planned for extension
north on the west side of the Red river
valley to the Manitoba line judging
from the character of the country ant