Morris tribune., 1881-09-22
RAILROADS.

The Canadian Grand Trunk has announced
that it will sell tickets from Chicago to Buffalo
! and return for $15, good for thirty days, and
when the passenger returns to Chicago rebate
of So will be paid.
At Winnipeg, Geni Hammond who was here
with Vice President Oakes, of the Northern
Pacific recently, has arrived from New York to
take the secretaryship of the Manitoba south
western railway at Winnipeg.
The Green Bay& &Minnesota railroad announce
that by the new connections with the Chicago
St Paul & Omaha railroad at Merillan, they
now offer new and more direct advantages for
reaching Minneapolis and the great northwest.
The Grand Trunk has cut the rate between
Milwaukee and the seaboard via Grand Haven
and Detroit. Passengers are being ticketed by
this water and land line at $5. The north
western and the st. Paul roads will suffer most
by this cut.
The following are the newly elected direct
ors and officers of the Northern Pacific rail-
road: Directors, Frederick Billings, A. N. Bar
ney, J. W. Ellis, R. G. Ralston, Robert Harris,
T. F. Oakes, A. 81. Holmes, Henry Willard OF
New York; J. L. Stackpole, E. Smith, B. P.
Cheney of Boston; J. G. Bullitt of Philadelphia;
and H. E. Johnson of Baltimore. Executive
| president Henry Willard; vice president, T. F.
Oakes.
There is nothing new to report in regard to
the eastern fights on rates. All of the inter-
ested lines are maintaining the rates made sew
eral days ago. and report that there is no prob
ability of an immediate change. 1t is not pro-
bable, however, that rates will go below the
| figures now charged-$5 to New York and $6
| to Boston. The next onslaught is likely to be
made on the running time of the trains. The
pennsylvania contemplates to reduce the time
OF. it's $50 p. m fast express about four or
five hours, making the time between Chicago
and New York in about twenty-five hours.
There ia nothing new To renort in regard In
the eastern fight on rates. All of the inter-
ested lines are maintaining the rates made sew
eral days ago, and report that there is no pro-
liability of an immediate change. 1t is not pro-
| bable, however, that rates will go below the
| figures now charged-$5 to New York and Sc
to Boston. The next onslaught is likely to be
made on the running time of the trains. Tho
the time of its $50 p. M. fast expresses about
four or five hours, making the time between
| Chicago and New York In about twenty five
hours
The St Paul Minneapolis & Manitoba COM
! pany's report for the year ending June 80,
shows at the close of the year, S61 miles of
road to which six miles have since been added,
making S67 miles. The sales of land by the
company during the year. for cash and on cred
| ing the sum of $571, ,1S6, from which has to
| be deducted the amount credited ana the liza
bilities it Cured to settlers for cultivation un-
der the terms of the company's contracts.
$11O,75. The falling off in the sales of the
company's lands this year, as compared with
| last, arises from causes of a temporary charac-
| ter, and is mainly attributable to the large ex-
tent of government lands which have beer
opened for free settlement and have beer
brought within easy reach of immigrants by the
| extension of railroads in Minnesota and the ad
joining territory"