Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-08-09
RAIL AND RIVER.
A New Corporation, Which Proposes to
Occupy Northwestern Minnesota-The
Lake Superior & Dakota Railway Com
pany-Rivcr Navigation Notes.

Occupy Northwestern Minnesota-The
Lake Superior s. Dakota Railway Com
pany-Rivor Navigation Notes.
H. B. Porter, president of the Chicago, St..
Paul 6 Omaha railroad company, Chicago,
is on o visit to the st. Paul headquarters Of
the company.
II. G. Van Horn, assistant general mana
ger of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St. Paul
railway, was looking after affairs of his road
IN st. Paul yesterday
The work of finishing off the new Union
depot is being rushed forward with all pos
sible speed, but it is not now thought probable
that the building will be ready for occupancy
before Monday next, even if then.
II. G. Hope, superintendent of telegraph Of
the Chicago, St. Paul & Omaha railroad, who
returned yesterday from trip over the west
ern division of the road, reports harvesting
nearly completed IN Scott county, and thresh-
ing in progress.
The Buffalo (Wis.) Press of the 9th inst
says: "Another load of supplies for the
Northern Pacific company was sent out from
Bayfield, this week. The supplies were taken
out by j. D. Cooper, and left at Pixies lake,
township ~, range west. Business"
The Braa,,erd, st. Paul q Grand Forks
Railroad and Telegraph Company.
Articles of incorporation were filed with the
secretary of state, yesterday, by which Chas.
A. EeGraff and B. B. Eaton, of st. Paul, and
Chas. F. Kindred, Chauncey B. Sleeper, Frank
B. Thompson, Newton McFadden aud B. F.
Hartley, of Brainerd, associated themselves
together, under the name and style of "The
Brainerd, St. Paul g. Grand Forks Railroad
and Telegraph company" for the purpose of
surveying, locating and maintaining a rail-
road from some convenient point in the city
Of ST. Paul, and running north through Ano-
ka and Mile Lacs, near the outlet of Mile
Laos lake, and thence to Brainerd, and from
Brainerd in a. northerly direction to Long
Lake, and between Round and Gull
lakes, in Cass county, and thence
in a nOrthwesterly direction to Red
Lake river at or near Crookston, Polk county,
and thence along the valley of the Red Lake
river to the western boundary of the State line
at or near Grand Forks, D. T.; with branches
from Princeton to Pine City, and from Prince
ton, Clearwater, Ltchfeld, Kandiyohi slakes
to or near Beaver and Red Wood Falls, Lake
Shitak,and LuverDe and thence southerly to
the Iowa State line; also southeast from
Princeton to the Wisconsin Slate live at or
near laylOr'S rails.
The principal place Of b lsiness Of the cor
poration is Bralnerd, Crow Wing county. Its
capital stock is five million dollars, and its
first board of directors is composed of the
corporators named above, with Chauncey B.
Sleeper as president, Charles A. De Graf,
vice president, Newton McFadden, treasurer,
and Frank B. Thompson, secretary.
The Lake Superior d Dakota Railscay Com
p0nU.
There was filed with the secretary of state
yesterday articles of corporation of an organ
ization to be known as the Lake Superior d
Dakota Railway company, with the following
named incorporators: Springer Harbaugh,
Cushman K. Davis, Jacob Fl. Stewart and
Charles W. Mcintyre, of St. Paul; Robert
Fairweather, William Anglim and Frank Ives,
Crookston, Polk county; and Michael Graves
and Charles Lockhart, Of Pittsburgh, Pa,
who constitute the first board of directors.
and operate a railroad from Duluth with
branch line to the boundary between the
States of Minnesota and Wisconsin, to
point on the Red River of the North,
in Minnesota, north of the eleventh
standard parallel; and also to erect and
operate a telegraph line or lines in con-
nection with such railroads as it may con-
struct. The principal place of business is to
be st. Paul, and the amount Of capital stock
is fixed at $5,0O0,0o0. The official advertise
ment of the company appears in another col
umn of the GLOBE.
We understand surveys have been made, and
that capital has been secured to ensure the
speedy construction of the road.