Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-04-19
Northern Pacific Construction of This
Year.
New York Sun I

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The eastern division of the Northern Pacific
railroad is the Wisconsin,, 122 miles long, ex-
tending from the Thomson Junction, on the
st. Paul & Duluth road, to Montreal river, in
Wisconsin. Construction eastward from the
junction to Superior City has commenced, land
will be continued, If it can be done this sea-
son, to the crossing of the Wisconsin Central
railroad at Ashland or some point south. The
location of the entire division well be made be
fore next winter.
The work on the Missouri division. which
at the close of last fall stopped at a point IT'S
miles west of the Missouri river, and 40 miles
east of the Yellowstone river, will be finished
| to the Yellowstone in the month of May.
| The whole line of the Yellowstone division,
| 3SS miles, from Glendive to the mouth of
Shields river, has been definitely located. The
maximum grade is 26H feet. Work is vigor-
ously prosecuting, and the track is expected to
month of July, and during the season to be
up the river at least 200 miles. A force of
| 1900 men is employed on this and the residue
| of the Missouri division.
| In the Rocky mountain division, 196 miles
| long, Immediately west of the Yellowstone,
three surveying parties are in the field to final
| ly determine which mountain pass the road
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| pleted, the line located, and grading begun
during the summer. If it shall be found
necessary to tunnel the mountain summit,
preparations 70 do so will be made next fall,
| and prosecuted through the winter, so as to
| have the tunnels finished when the line reaches
| them.
| In the next division, Clark's Fork ,262 miles,
| locating parties have been in the field during
| the winter; 100 miles heve been definitely 10.
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| ing will be commenced from that end by the
| latter part Of April, and, not much later, work
will be begun at the western end, coming east.
| Beyond is the Pend Oreille division, 200
miles. It is expected that the track will be
| completed from Ainsworth, on the Columbia
river, ito LakeSPend dOreille in the month of
| September. The work has been delayed by the
difficulty OF obtaining ties and timber, first by
reason of low water And then by floods. One
| hundred and eighty-four miles are graded, and
| the track is going down rapidly, the material
| to carry the road tu the lake being on the
ground. A steamboat will soon be launched
on Pend d'Oreille, to be used In the work of
construction.
| From the Columbia river westward, the
| continuous, short, and straight line is the
| Cascade division, $50 miles long, terminating
at Tacoma, on Puget Sound. To do work on
this and the Pend d'Oreille division, the papers
Of Washington Territory recently contained ad.
vertlsements for 1900 laborers. It is the con-
struction Of this Cascade division, the most
| important portion of the whole Northern
Pacific road, which the Oregon Railway and
Navigation Company has sought to defeat, first,
by Nj. Henry Wizards effort to buy up a
majority of the Northern Pacific stock; second
by his injunction proceedings to nulhfy
the company's "residue'' common
stock. The surveys of the pass through the
Cascade range will be completed June L. 1t is
surprisingly favorable. AS soon as the leca.
tion is finished, the division will be put under
construction. Before that, work from Aims.
worth, going up the Yakima Valley toward
the range, will be begun. Ties in large guam
titles are cutting on the line of this division,
and shipments from New York and Philadel-
| phla OF steel rails and locomotives to Tacoma
have begun.
| From Ainsworth to Puget Sound is the
| river division, down the Columbia. At Kala-
ma, on the Columbia, forty miles west of
| Portland, starts the los miles of road which
the Northern Pacific has for some years had
in operation to Tacoma. Surveys and location
are now making to connect with Portland
these los miles of operated road. This forty.
mile link put in, the trade of Oregon can have
cheap and unokstructed outlet to the sea
through the deep waters of Puget Sound.
| Of the more important local work, pro-
vision has been made to relay 100 miles of the
road between Fargo and Bismarck with steel,
and for the construction of two or three
branches, as follows:
| In Dakota fifty miles will be built of the
Northern Pacifc's branch running southwest
from Fargo, and known rs the Fargo q South
western railroad
| Also, the Casselton branch will be extended