Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-10-09
RAIL AND RIVER NOTES.

Passage of Lorne and Party-Ths Order of
Railway Conductors to Meet Next in St.
Paul-M ssouri and Yellowstone Field
Products-Sweet Potatoes, Dent Corn and
Big Yields of Wheat and Oats-NOrthern
Pacific Divisions-Superintend of
Transportation-The Red River Nearly
At Stand-Nsxt Boats for Below.
The Diamond Jo steamer Diamond 10.
| will be in from below tomorrow, sure,
to leave for St. Louis at NJ.
Mr.. A. E. johnson, chief of the emf
grafton bureau of the st. Paul s. Mani
toba road, returned yesterday from
Chicago.
Three cars of NJ. s. St. L. freight
train were ditched and completely
wrecked Friday night at Barnum on the
ST. P. & D. road.
General Superintendent C. F. Hatch,
of the c., St. P. s. o. railway, will re-
turn this morning from tour over the
Nebraska and Dakota divisions.
The White Eagle, of the st. Louis s
ST. Paul line, is expected i'll from below
this evening, to leave for St. LOUIS at 10
A. NJ tomorrow. The next boat of this
line will be the War Eagle, which is
billed to leave for St. Louis at 10 A. NJ.
Tuesday.
George Hazards new office at the cor
ner of Third and Sibley streets, in the
front now occupied by Nicols s. Dean, is
to have plate-glass windows, bordered
and topped with cathedral colored glass,
and will be furnished sumptuously so as
| to give credit to the ST. P 6 D. and other
roads he represents.
George W. Cross, formerly general
manager of the Empire freight line and
resident at Cleveland, O., lately appointed
superintendent of transportation of the
Northern Pacific railroad, arrived in St.
Paul yesterday, and will tomorrow enter
upon his new duties. His Office will be
| in the Davidson block, fourth floor, oppo-
site the Offices of General Manager Haupt.
In accordance with resolution of the
city council of st. Paul, Mayor Rice
recently rendered the Inequalities of the
city to the Order of Railway Conductors
and invited it to appoint its next meeting
at ST. Paul. Yesterday the Mayor re-
ceived dispatch dated at Buffalo, signed
by W. P. Daniels, grand secretary of
the Order, saying: 81 am instructed to
return thanks for your kind invitation
and to inform you that st. Paul has been
chosen as the next place of meeting"
The Marquis of Lorne and party ar
rived here from the west at 2:20 a. m.
Yesterday and were shortly after trans
ferred to the st. Paul g. Manitoba road
and sent, by special train, to Winnipeg.
The Marquis and suite will leave Win
nipeg for Ottawa in about ten days and,
en- route, will stop at St. Paul day or
two. 1t is understood he would prefer to
have no formal demonstrations in his
honor, desiring to use his opportunity to
best advantage in seeing the city and
meeting few representative men
According to the present time schedule
Of the Northern Pacific railroad, the line
is divided for superintendent as follows:
St. Paul division, st. Paul to Bismarck,
136 miles; East Minnesota division, Du-
luth to Brainerd, ia miles; West Mime
sofa QlVlSIOn, DTdlntTu 10 IdTSO, 1903
miles: Dakota division. Fargo to Bis
marck river landing, 1861 miles; Missouri
division, Bismarck to Glendive, 221I
miles; Casselton branch, Casselton to
Blanchard, 81 miles. Total miles in
operation, exclusive of side and yard
tracks, 1861.
The land department of the Northern
Pacific Company has on exhibition sam
pie of sweet potatoes (good ones, too,)
grown in the post garden at Fort Yates,
(Standing Rock, Dak.,) and also lot of
fine samples of farm products from the
Crane and Brabe farms on the Yellow
stone, near Glendive, Montana. These
last include large turnips and rutabagas,
big onions and potatoes, fat beets, yellow
flint and dent corn and fine white oats.
The dent corn was planted the last week
in May, and was fully matured inside of
four months. The wheat yielded 35 to
SO bushels per acre, and the oats yielded
IS bushels per acre. After seeing these
samples no one can doubt that the Vel
lowstone is an agricultural region.