Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-03-28
OUR RAILWAYS.

A Meeting to Fix Warm Weather Rates
Will the Companies Try to Shift Their
Share of the Winter Losses-Lake Supe-
rior-The Missouri Etc.
The Chicago papers of Friday assert that
Mr.. A. Marvel, of the Rock Island road, has
accepted the position of assistant general man.
ager of the st. Paul & Manitoba railway.
Judge Chandler and Mr.. J. c. Boyden, from
the NJ. & st. P. general offices at St. Paul. and
Messrs. F. B. Clarke and j. d. Hiland, from
headquarters Of the c., st. P. q o. line, St.
Paul, have gone to Chicago, to attend q meet
ing to-day at which freight rates for the com.
ing season, in the Northwest are to be settled.
1t is believed that better rates than have ever
been made before will be given to the mer.
among railroad men there is q strong feeling
In favor Of prolonging the present winter rates
to as late In the season 40 possible, for helping
their companies to make up for the losses and
the extraordinary expenses incurred on ae>
count OF the snow blookades OF the winter.
Our merchants accept the loss Of two to
three months Of winter trade, occasioned BY
sumers being cut of by the snow drifts, as
one of-the incidenta Of lrade-As an interrnp-
ton of trade, Of which consumers, perforce,
have borne their share, and Of which rner-
chants, in the interest of legitimate traffic,
must consent to bear their share. The railroad
companies, being 50 far as relates to their per.
sona1 interest as common carriers, more
closely identified with the common interests
of the country than any other investors, will
act unwisely If they undertake to recover
their losses of tho winter season from their
patrons. If the railways are managed with
view to their permanent value - common
carriers rather than with regard to the tempo
rary values Of the stock board, they will bear
their share Of the winter losses, and so
strengthen all the communities, and the in-
terests with which they are connected.
Each of the Chicago com panies will bring
st Paul this morning an extra train loaded
with colonists' goods and stock, bound for
Manitoba, the Red River Valley and northern
Dakota.
The NJ. & st. P. company is again receiving
freight and selling passenger tickets to Rem
Vile on the 81. & D. division, and the work of
opening the road west of that station Is being
vigorously prosecuted.
The spring opening of Lake Superior-that
is, the clearing of Its western ports, Duluth
and Superior, from ice, is already matter of
interesting conjecture. There Is much more
ice than usual in the bays-an along the shores
OF the lake, and the prospect that more Ice
than usual will come out Of the rivers empty.
ing into the lake. If all this ice should be held
in the narrow western end of the lake by east
erly winds, the west end might be closed until
weeks after the Sault Ste. Marie river and
canal are opened. But if the prevailing winds
are westerly, the ice will be soon ground up
and melted in the open lake, and the opening
of navigation may be as early as though the
winter season had not been an extraordinarily
severe one.
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from Ontario, Quebec and the Eastern States,
bringing horses, cattle, household goods and
capital for building and for improvement OF
lands, are to-day en- route to st. Paul, bound
for the Red River Valley in Minnesota, for
Northern Dakota and for the British Province
of Manitoba.
The Northern Pacific sarried west Saturday
995 colonists with their moyablss and stock,
and ISL head of mules for the Dalrymplc
FARMS To-day it will take forward train
load of mules and farm supplies for the
Cooper Bros great farm in Northern Dakota.
About twenty of the Erie (Pa) party of col
onists of the Red River Valley In Dakota as
sembled here last week and some thirty more
were due last night and this morning. This
party is made up of eight or ten capitalists, who
have bought the lands and in part furnish the
means for their Improvement, while the rest
of the party are farmers, mechanics and
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women, whose part is to lead
in establishing the new social and home life OF
the colonists. These people bring with them
from their Pennsylvania homes large amount
of movable property, including horses, cattle
and machinery, butare also large buyers in this
maket of supplies and farm fixtures. About
half of the party ntendto return to Pennsy lvania
for the next winter, but meantime they Will do
their best to add 10 the wealth of the country
in which they have bought lands and, whether
they will it or not, they will make permanent
homes there for many of their employees and
eventually for themselves or Others who, like
them, have capital to use in new country.
Latest advices from Bsmarlx an that although
the ice at and above that place in the Missouri,
still floats unbroken on top of the food tide,
holes are wearing through in many place and
the brake up will soon come. The Ice except
in sports, is three to five feet thick, and when
1t does break and begins to pile up, as 1t will
wherever its course down stream was OBJ
structed, there will be some wonderful sights,
showing what. "a Missouri flood can do when
1t has solid cakes of heavy ice to play with.
The railroad iron which has been transferred
across the Missouri at Bismarck during the
end of the track on the border of the Yellow
stone valley. The weather in that region has
for the last ten days been favorable to the
early spring operations, preparatory TO the
years work of extending the railroad, and
every day is being improved.
The work of clearing the Sioux City di.
vision and Sioux Falls branch Of the st. Paul
& Omaha line has been vigorously prosecuted
since settled weather and fixed snow gave en-.
couragement to the belief that the road
could be opened and operated without waiting
for sun and rain to melt away the
snow and ice The snow is found TO be In
greater quantity than expected, and 50 hard
that both pick and shovel have to be used for
its removal, but 1t is nevertheless now conf
IDENTIFY anticipated that the road will be
opened SO that trains may be run through
between St. Paul and Sioux City on Wednesday
or Thursday.
annual Report of the c., II. & st. p.
The Milwaukee Republican, having had ac-
cess to advance sheets of the annual report Of
President Mitchell, which is delayed by reports
not having been received from all the new
lines beyond the big snow drifts, presents the