Morris tribune. [volume] (Morris, Minn.) 1880-2000, 1881-02-24
RAILROAD NOTES.

At the annual meeting of the stockholders
of the Taylor's Falls and Lake Superior
railroad company, the following named
gentlemen were unanimously elected direc-
| tors for the ensuing year: John Martin,
Hon. W. D. Washburn, Chas. F. Hatch,
Gov. G. c. Washburn, L.. W. Folsom,
Geo. W. Seymour and Oscar Roos. Mr..
| Washburn is the holder of 1000 shares of
| the company.
The people of Montevidio and Granite
Falls turned out en- masse to keep open the
railroad. An account says in many places
the snow was twenty feet deep, and the
men shoveled it out for more than mile,
where the snow had to be thrown out by
three tiers, one man standing above the 9TH
er and pitching it as high as he could. The
snow was packed so hard that it was with
difficulty that the shovel could be forced
into it.
The Canadian syndicate bill passed the
senate on Monday last and nothing further
is necessary but to receive the sanction of
the governor general, concerning which
there can be no doubt.
A new Railroad company has been organ
lied at Moorhead. Mimi, opposite Fargo.
The road will run from Moorhead to Breck-
enridge. 1t will be called the Moorhead.
McCauleyville & Breckenridge railroad
First board of directors: A. A. White, S.
G.. Comstock, F. J. Boemham and John
Erickson, all of Moorhead; Messrs. Nc
Cauley and Harris of Me- Cauleyville: Messrs.
Hanson and Brandrup of Breckenridge.
The st. Paul and Omaha railroad was
opened on the 18th to Sioux City. Travel
has been interrupted for sixteen days.
Recently a new railroad company, known
as the Lake Superior & Southeastern Rail-
way company has been formed, its line
commencing at the village of Superior, at
the west end of he lake, running thence via
the cities of Chippewa Falls and Eau Claire
to point no further south than the city of
La Crosse and no further west than the
mouth of the Chippewa river. Among the
incorporators are Gov. J. NJ. Bingham, W
A. Rust, of the Eau Claire Lumber compa-
ny; Hon. J. A. Taylor, L. @. Stanley, of the
Chippewa Falls & Western Railway compa-
ny, and Col. Geo. G. Ginty.
The January land sales made by the
Northern Pacific company amounted to 61,-
$40 acres, valued at $40, ,422. Town lots
sold amounted to 81 in number; value, So
$50. These figures show handsome in
crease upon the record of January, 1880,
the sales in that month amounting to A.
430 acres at a value of S35, ,2S0.
Gov. Pillsbury has executed to the Vino
ma & st. Peter road, deed for &C, 900 acres
of land, in compliance with the recent de-
cision of the courts, after five years of liti-
cation between that company and the st.
Paul & Sioux City. The suit grew out of
the overlapping of lands covered by the
land grants to each road.
It is reported that within the next thirty
days the Texas Pacific, Iron Mountain, In
ternational i Northern and Texas & Kan
sas railways will all be consolidated
The intelligence gathered at the railroad
offices in ST. Paul is much more cheerful
than it has been before for several DAYS.
With one or two exceptions, the roads are
all open and trains running on them.
Railroad commissioner Marshall has re-
ceived the report of the Burlington, Cedar
Rapids 4 Northern road, from the State
line to Albert Lea. 1t shows earnings dur
ing 1880, as follows: Freight, S41, ,S2O.27:
passengers Ss,3O7.75; mails, S9SS. 70; ex,
press, $4SS,67, total, $51, ,6O5.41; tax at
per cent, $516.05. The gross earnings of
the road in Minnesota in 1879, were SS6,-
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