Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-15

The snow fall of last night fell quietly here.
II it extended to the prairie regions and was
accompanied by high wind, little as there Is
of it, it is enough to add to the troubles OF
railroad operators.
The Hastings & Dakota extension was yester-
day again open to Bird Island.
The Northern Pacific had no trouble from
the storm of Friday and Saturday.
Mr.. II. C.. Davis, assistant passenger agent
of the ST. Paul & Manitoba company, arrived
here yesterday from the East.
Messrs. Winter and Hatch of the Omaha line
went out the other day to look at the snow
drifts on the ST. Paul division beyond Man.
k,tO. They found snow carrying zephyr
playng over the prairles and concluded that
business required their immediate return TO
St. Paul. But yesterday Mr.. Winter went out
again, and he may get on the west side OF a
big snow DRIFT.
The Blue Earth branch of the Omaha line
will probably be reOpened to-day.
Dispatches from Bismarck yesterday to
General Manager Sargent stated that the Mis-
souri, at that point was bank full but The Ice
still held solid.
The very latest Srumor regarding the ex-
pected changes in control of Northern Pacific
affairs in this region is that at the meeting OF
directors to be held Thursday fiext in New
York, Mr.. Robert Harris, now general mana
ger of the New York, Lake Erie & Western
road, will be elected president or vice presis
dent of the Northern Pacific company, and
that thereupon Mr.. Harris will at once re-
move with his family to st. Paul, and on the
1st of next month assume chief executive
control of all affairs Of the Northern Pacific
com pany in the Northwest. If this or any OF
the similar rumors which have lately been
started should prove true, it Will ap-
pear that the company has concluded
to reverse the policy which has caused Cen
eral Manager Sargent to tender his resignation
and will hereafter trust it's interest to a repre-
sentative onH the spot, without interference
from New York.
A gentleman who may be supposed to be
well Informed as to the relations OF the st.
Paul & Duluth railroad company with other
railroad companies, has informed the GLOBE
that the recent trip to Knife Falls and Duluth,
of General Manager Hill, of the st. Paul q
Manitoba company, was more Tor pleasure OF
rest than on business. He says that no sale OF
stock or transfer of interest has occurred,
but adds that the St. Paul & Duluth road is
open to the ST. Paul q Manitoba or any other
company which may wish to obtain right
of way over it, in such manner as the Mime
apolis & St. Louis company has obtained Its
right of way.to Duluth. He says, also, that
while he could imagine circumstances under
which the st. Paul & Manitoba company
might desire to use the ST. Paul & Duluth
track, vet whether those circumstances will
arise must depend on the railway building OF
this season, and perhaps a year or two more.
The memory of the Oldest settler OF south
western Minnesota, and his experiences date
back more than a score of years, cannot re-
call a season in that region OF such deep SHOWS
and constant high winds as have been ex-
l l.. ,,tnr A,,d lrnn
men certainly never before Tor
so long time found it
impossible to clear long line of track Of
snow. The experiences on the Hastings q
Dakota beyond Glencoe, on the Northwestern
| beyond New Ulm and on the western part of
| the Southern Minnesota have been even harder
| than on the St. Paul & Sioux City road; bnt
concerning the last more has been made
public The present situation n this line Of
road through the prairie may be judged from
there being two feet of fresh snow at St.
James, which fell Friday and Saturday last.
| At Heron Lake station Sunday, before the
| locomotives could be brought from their
stalls (where they were placed Thursday
night to the main track the switch track for
four hundred feet had to be relieved of a
| twenty-feet drift of snow. Yesterday morn
| ing snow train from Sioux
| City had reached Hospers, fifty
miles this way from Sioux City, when
at 10 A. M snow storm, which was first
heard of at Omaha, reached Sioux City and
| commenced to move up the line, compelling
| recall of the snow train. The Sioux City
divi sion, which has not been at any time
wholly open since Jan. 9th. cannot be cleared
| before Saturday night next, with most favor
able weather conditions. On the st. Paul
| division, which has only abont twenty-four
miles of track exposed to prairie SHOWS and
| winds, twenty miles had been cleared. Yesterday
afternoon and this mornings train will prob
ably run to st. James, the end of the division.
| That is, if the Omaha storm, or the snow Of
which we had little here last nj ght, has not
interfered.