Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-06-16
RAIL, RIVER AND LAKE.

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Opening Struggle for Railroad Territory
In Dakota-The Sub-Foundations of the
Northern Pacific Building-Personal and
Local Rail and River Notes.
General Superintendent Hatch, of the Chi
cago, st. Paul & Omaha railway, has gone to
Omaha for few days.
Mr.. A. j. Cooper, general manager of the
Erie q Milwaukee fast freight line, will remain
in st. Paul to-day on business.
Forty-two immigrants went out on the st.
Paul d Manitoba trans of yesterday morning,
ticketed for Litchteld, Sank Center, Crooks
ton, etc,
An excursion train is to be run to Lake
Elmo next Sunday, leaving the Wacouta street
depot at P. NJ, and, returning, leaving the
lake station at 9 p. NJ.
Mr.. A. E. Johnson, commissioner of emf
grafton for the st. Paul & Manitoba company,
has gone out on tour over the comp.ny's
roads to select the best location to which to
direct immigrants.
Il. B. Hammond, Esq, president of the In
dianapolis, Decatur & Springfield railway,
visited Tuesday evening with Henry p Hop
pin, ESQ.,, joint secretary of the c., M. q st.
P, c. & N. w. and c., St. P. & O. railways,
and yesterday, with his party, left here for
Quincy and Indianapolis.
General Superintendent Stickney, of the
Canadian Pacific, IS about to start on tour
over the C. P line eastward from Winnipeg,
and will be accompanied BY Mr.. Haynes, pho
tographer, of Fargo, who will bring back a
number of views of the indescribably wild
region through which the G. P. line runs from
Winnipeg to Lake Superior.
The five cent reduction on the east bound
freights, announced by Commissioner Fink for
the great trunk lines, brings the lake and rail
lines to pretty close figures. When the
all rall rate on wheat was Soc
rail rate was put down to Csc they came down
to 22Hc C, and now that the all-rail rate is Zoe
they must come to TX or get no freight. At
that price the margin for the carriers is small
The Fargo Argus of Tuesday morning re-
ports General Manager Hill, of the st. Paul &
Manitoba, to be riding over the country south
west of that place, on buck board, spying
out the fitness OF the land, and another west
ern journal reports his surveyors running a
line due west from Wahpeton. 1t is evident
enough that, while the Milwaukee & st. Paul
and Chicago & Northwestern companies have
about ended their strife in southern Da-
kota, the st. Paul & Manitoba and
Northern Pacific companies are just entering
upon greater struggle for territory in North
erns Dakota, which may result in few years
in the great fertile prairies of that region be-
ing fairly gridironed with railroads.
Several instances of loss of baggage by theft
have been made public during the past year.
through efforts to bring the thieves to trial
and punishment. So far not one has been
fnA h,,f hoe hnar ,La ~
Saltwater wherein a conviction appears as
sured. A trunk lost by P. Woolster of Fair
| mont, Mimi, from C., st P. d 0. train has
| been recovered with all its contents except one
article which had been pawned, and the al
| legged thief, man named Coleander, has been
held for the grand jury. Several witnesses will
testify to his having had the trunk, and the
pawnbroker will swear to his having pawned
| the missing articles, which the pawnbroker,
| however, claims to have sold to an unknown
person.
The work of preparing foundation for the
Northern Pacific office building has been ex-
| tensive. The site selected, on Broadway fac
| ing up Fourth street, was in a part of the
| marsh Covering an ancient bed of the river)
which in old times of St. Paul was peculiarly
called Frog Town" First the soft marsh
muck, twenty odd feet deep, was removed
with deal of patient labor, and with steam
pump constantly going to keep the shOvelers
from being drowned out. Then the'hole was
filled in with hard clay, and through
this oak piles were driven into the old
river bed and at top of and over those piles a
thick concrete bed is being laid, on which to
| lay the foundation stones of the building. A
great amount of concrete is being used as may
| be judged from the fact that steam stone
breaking machine his been steadily running
| for weeks to supply the small stones for mix
| ing In the conc rete. There can be no doubt,
| finally, that the building, however heavy it
may be, will stand steady and without set
thing.