Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-12-31

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this company has laid 2O3 miles of track
this year and has 159 miles of grading
ready for the track layers.
Tho st. Paul G. Duluth.
The new owners of this very important
Minnesota road have not fulfilled what
was expected year ago. On the con-
| trary, there is reason to doubt whether
they have even maintained the roadway
in as good condition as they received it.
The road now belongs to a syndicate of
railroads having little use for it except
to keep it from rival control; and until
some change in the general railway stu
alton occurs the control of this road
seems likely to be characterized only by
eminent economy. Such at least is the
view of important patrons of the road.
Nevertheless the official reports show that
some improvements have been made. The
joint work with the Northern Pacifc) Of
removing and improving the track from
Northern Pacific Junction to Duluth has
been completed this year. The
new track laid by this company amounts
to four and half miles Of sidings. The
principal expenditures of the year have
been in the construction Of new docks at
Duluth. A new station house has been
| built at Harris, new freight house at
Hinckley and new Office building at Du-
luth, and Forest Lake and North Branch
stations have been improved. Contracts
were made for additions to the rolling
stock of twelve locomotives and $50
freight cars, but these contracts have only
partly been filled and are to be completed
this winter. They will make the equip
ment 36 locomotives, % passenger train
cars, and $40 freight cars. The traffic and
earnings of the road for 1881 have been
about II per cent. larger than in 1880.
| LOCAL IMPROVEMENTS.
This company has completed its part of
the Fourth street improvement. Three
miles out from the Union depot it is
building a new round house of ten stalls.
The grounds near POSTS Siding where
the new shops are to be built are being
graded, and it is reported the shops will
be built during 1882. When that is done
the depot and shop grounds under Day
toms Bluff will be cleared and used for
freight yard.
The only addition to mileage cont en-
plated for the coming year is the iro ming
of the Grantsburg branch, already graded
and to include bridge across the st..
Croix at point where extensive lum-
bering operations are projected-depend-
ing, however, upon the completion Of
the branch road.
Minneapolis & st. Louie.
The prominent feature in the years
history of this road has been its gain Of
traffic from connections formed with
companies hitherto shut out from Mime
sofa and only lately stirred up to compete
for the business of this part of the coun-
try. The Chicago, Burlington & Quincy
and the Chicago, Rock Island & Pacific
connections have been especially active
and successful in diverting traffic in
| favor of this road,
The construction operations of the COM
pany have been in extending its Fort
Dodge line down the valley Of the Des
Moines to Coaltown, where the North
western Fuel company owns large coal
property; and on its Pacific division,
which has been completed to Winthrop
in Sibley county, twenty-five miles from
Redwood Falls. The former line is to be
extended the coming season to Greenfield
n the Chicago, Burlington 6 Quincy
company's western line, and the latter is
to be extended to Redwood Falls. 1t is
also the purpose of the company to build
line from st. Croix Falls to Lake Su-
perior, in anticipation of the expiration a
year from next May of its lease Of track
age from the st. Paul & Duluth company.
Excluding this last, its roads, when those
under construction are ironed, will
| amount 10 1886 miles, and It's contemplated
extensions of this year, including the
Lake Superior line, will amount to 255
miles.
The earnings of the road for 1881, in
round numbers amounted to 81 900, 600,
against 300, 900 in 1880.
The Canadian Pacific.
The intimate connection Of this road
with the St. Paul & Manitoba and the
fast increasing intercourse and traffic be-
tween this city and the province Of Mani
toba, serves to make the progress of the
Canadian Pacific Of great local import
ance. A year ago last October the syn
dictate formed mostly of members Of the
st. P. & M. company completed its con-
| tract With the Dominion geYernment. In