Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-04-07
EARLY MORNING TRAIN.


Bringing the Latest News and Gossip
Concerning the Railways in Which St.
Paul and Minnesota Are Most Interested.
Mr.. c. c. Smith, of La Crosse, contractor
for the extension of the North Wisconsin rail
road, was at the Merchants yesterday.
The first passenger train of the season was
run into Ortonville yesterday and the western
end of the Hast ngs & Dakota is restored to
the aggregate of operating roads.
1t is said that Il ton of mail matter has ac-
cumulated at St. James during the railroad
blockade and that the people who have been
deprived of the mails complain because the
government did not employ special mail car
riers.
Most of number of young Englishmen
who have been waiting in St. Paul for the
opening of The st. Paul & Omaha line, will
settle at Heron Lake or in its immediate vlcin-
ity. Heron Lake, by the way, Is locality iull
of promise for the future. Among the as
sured Improvements of the season will be a
Touring mill, flax mill, and hay press, all to
be run by one large engine, which Mr.. j. F.
Smith has recently ordered. The flax mill
will be for production of tow and will be
be ready to start in operation on the crop Of
this year.
The St Paul and Duluth company will open
the lake season May l, by putting on one
White Bear Train for benefit of the st. Paul
people who have built summer residences at
lake. The train will leave St. Paul in the
evening and come IN early in the morning.
Other lake trains will be added as the season
advances.
The flood at Bismarck has receded so that
no fun Their trouble is anticipated, but the ice
laff Nr, he Nncfh 90 ~, No, LOW
on the west size is a serious thing to contem-
plate. Three-quarters of mile of track
is blocked by great chunks of ice which
cannot be moved except by blasting or warm
er weather than is to be expected at this season.
Sioux City dispatch at P. NJ. yesterday
said the river had been rising there at the rate
OF foot an hour since noon, but so much ice
was running it was thought the gorge above
the city had broken.
O'Clock last evening, that the last distractions
would be removed before mid
night, the GLOBE confidently announces
that the st. Paul & Omaha Short line is
restored, and that regular through trains will
be resumed this morning. At the hour stated
there was less than a half mile of road, be-
tween Bingham Lake and Mountain Lake, to
be cleared of snow and Ice, which would be
done by midnight, and then the whole road
iiO'ii p' dti ~ CtOtiA SlUy WOulu Uc Clcdf
The Nebraska division Was re ported open on
uesday, and, accordingly, the train which
leaves st Paul this morning will make its
Union Pacific connections all right. The
llie, except two days February Is and 19)
when few trains were worked through,
has boen closed since February 3, and its re-
o. ening will seem to our merchants almost
like adding that much of new railway to the
st. Paul system, while to the railroad men who
h.lvn hInt. H.rI,
months, 1t will seem like hard won vic
tory.
The shovel and pick-ax brigade on the Sioux
Falls branch of the st. Paul & Omaha line
reached Luvernr Yesterday noon AMI will prob
ably clear The road To Sioux Fails
by Tonight. Their hardest job has
been 10 cut through what superintendent
Lincoln calls an iceberg, which covered the
track min feet deep fur three quarters of a
mile The Rock X yer branch, from Luverne,
which has been closed since about Christmas
will also I've uncovered and opened to traffic in
Il few days.
EX-Pttsdent llsley, III his report of the ST
Pau & Duluth Z ,Iro I'd company for 1880
recently published, recommends that the
policy heretoiuIe pursued of charging
permanent improvements and additions
to excuses be changed in favor of the pre-.
ferred Stockholders by making loan oi
$1,000, 900 10 complete the permanent improve
ments, such H. RELYING with steel rails, placing
stone and iron bridges and filing in place OF
temporary work, etc His propostion is sup
ported by exhibits that $450,000 of the earn.
ings of the road have been eXpendei on direct
additions to the original road and fixtures, anu
that aiding other property (>uch rs stock OF
the Union depot, Northwestern Equipment
Trust and saltwater & st. Paul railroad) the
earnings have been drawn upon for property
TO 90
SlO,0T,771 81 of property is represented by
IS, Isl ,Ol4 AZ of stock.