Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-04-15
RIVER AND RAIL.
THE ST. PAUL AND ST. LOUIS PACKET
COMPANY.

A Fast Passenger Line and Full Outfit OF
Freight Boats and Barges- Barge Line to
New Orleans and Through Bills to Liver
pool-Tree Planting for Protection OF
Railroads - Why Railway Companies
Should Encourage Tree Planting all
Over the r'es-Lincoln's Work on
the Sioux Git ision and it's Progress
Yesterday Weather and Personal Notes.
Mr.. F. D. Underwood, assistant super
intendent of the River Division, NJ. 6 st.
p, returned here yesterday from Chicago.
Gen. T. L. Rosser and wife dined at
the Merchants yesterday, and during the
afternoon the General visited the ST. P
6 NJ. headquarters, and talked about the
Canadian Pacific country.
Mr.. W. A. Hayes, assistant superin-
tendent of the Pullman palace car COM
pany, made flying visit to the railroad
offices of st. Paul yesterday.
General Superintendent Hatch was
visited by friends at his home in Mime
apolis yesterday and found sitting up, still
unable to walk, but feeling we'll and i'm
proving daily.
Mr.. Charles q. Hudson, late superin-
tendent of the Baltimore & Ohio lines
west of the Ohio, having his Office and
residence at Chicago, is expected in Min
neapolis early the coming week and is TO
take the position either of vice president
or general superintendent of the Mime
apolis s. st. Louis company Mr.. Hud-
son served his apprenticeship on the
Chicago, Burlington and Quincy road,
and in ten years winning promotions
which brought him in the rank of general
officers of the road. For four years past
divisions" of the Baltimore & Ohio COM
panys He'is about so years old
A little snow fell along the H. s. D.
extension yesterday, and more fell from
that line north to the boundary, occasion
ing little delay of n. P. and St. P. &
NJ trains
The rainy weather experienced at St.
Paul yesterday extended on the st. P s.
D. road to near the summit, with rainy
indications on the other side
The land department aud transporta-
ton offices of the Northern Pacific COM
pany are daily visited by numerous per-
sons on their way to look for lands in the
Northern Pacific country, or to settle on
lands already selected. 1t is evident that
northern Dakota will gain greatly in
population this year.
Ancient Nova Scotians when waiting
by late winter fire for the coming of the
season which answers to their ideas of
summer often recall, with ever fresh en-
joyment, the anecdote. of provincial
origin, of the old woman of the province
and green arrival from the mother
country. She was getting snow to melt
for washing and with shovel first re-
moved the top snow on which dust and
SCOT had settled. 'Aw, nah good
woman" said he, 'twhy do you dig for
your snow?' Because said she, 81
want the last years snow; it makes soft
er water'' Superintendent Lincoln's
present experiences are a reminder
of the anecdote. He isn't workingsI
in last years snow, but in
opening up some of the side tracks and
clearing the depot yards along his Sioux
City division he is moving snow which
fell six months ago to-day That snow
Is old enough to be soft by this time, but
it isn't-it's found, when uncovered, to be
frozen hard.
The case of Barney and others against
the Winona & st. Peter railroad company,
which has been decided in favor of the
plaintiffs by Judge Nelson of the United
States court, involved the title to about
I60 900 acres of land, earned in construc-
tion of the road from Winona to Waseca
by the plaintiffs prior to the transfer of
the road to the defendant. But the di-
rect question at issue was as to the right
of plaintiffs to select indemnity lands out
of the land grant west of Waseca, to
make up the deficiency due on the
constructed road, and which could not be
had east of Waseca.
Reports of las evening from snow crews
on the Sioux City division last evening
were as follows: The St. James crew
were twelve miles west of that station.
The Window crew had worked to Wilder,
six miles west. The Heron Lake crew
had reached Worthington, twenty miles.
The western part of the track was cleared,
from Sibley to Sioux City, seventv-five
miles. 1t is possible that the remainder
of the division may be cleared to-day,
but it is more probable that through
trains cannot be resumed before Saturday
Meantime no rain has come there
yet and the snow on top
is dry enough to be moved by the
wind, so there is some danger of the cuts
being again filled, for the seventh or
eighth time, if high wind should come
from any direction. The St. Paul division
is all right, with regular trains running.
No reports were received last evening
from the Sioux Falls branch or Nebraska
division, but the weather reports at 4 p
NJ. showed clear and pleasant weather
with west to southwest winds all along
the line, from st. James to Sioux Falls
and Omaha.
1t is reported that the tree plantations
of several years ago for the protection of
certain cuts on the Breckenridge
division of the st. P. s. NJ road has,
through the past winter, demonstrated
the great usefulness of trees in protecting
prairie railway lines from snow drifts,
scarcely any trouble having occurred in
the cuts thus protected. On the st. Paul
s. Omaha line, in the southwest counties,
the most troublesome drifts formed IN
small cuts or began with accidental OBJ
structions, like punches of weeds, or lines
of standing straw along the edges of
grain fields. Some of the deep cuts and