Daily globe., 1881-05-18
THE STEEL WAYS.

Material For BaIIasting- Social and Per-
sonal Rail Notes.
Col r. NJ Newport, chief of the North
ern Pacific land department, has gone to
Miles City, to see for himself what sort of
lands he will have to sell for the compa-
ny in the Yellowstone valley.
The Sioux Falls branch of the St Paul
& Omaha road will be open to Sioux Falls
by tomorrow night, when the company
Will have all its resources taxed to handle
the large rail traffic of that fourishing
young city.
President Stephen, and Vice Preident
Angus, of the ST. Paul & Manitoba,
accompanied by Mr.. Jno. 5. Stephen,
of Stephen, Mimi, and Hon.
Donald A. Smith, of Montreal, left here
last night for Winnipeg.
The Wisconsin Central company has
issued beautifully printed and finely il
lustrated pamphlet entitled "Summer
Saunterings in North Wisconsin," 1t is,
as the title indicates, descriptive of places
to be reached by the Wisconsin Central
road and lake connections where there
are special attractions for summer tourists
and pleasure seekers.
Railroad and steamboat men must be
pinching shippers from the Yellowstone
country a little hard, for we hear
of owners of stuff to be shipped from
Miles City who are figuring on bringing
it out by fiat boat The case must be
about desperate when business men will
figure on building fiat boat from the
wood of that country, to be run on such II
stream as is the Yellowstone.
The G. N. Nelson lumber company Of
this city is supplying large amount of
bridge timbers this season for the Milwau
kee & St. Paul, st. Paul & Manitoba and
Northern Pacific companies.
The steamer Josephine is to leave Bis
marck for the Yellowstone this evening,
on arrival of the Northern Pacific train
from st. Paul
Mr. o. S. Hervin, who has been in Nor
way in the interests of the st. Paul &
Manitoba company's land department,
passed through st. Paul yesterday with a
party of seventy-five to one hundred Nor
wegian farmers, ticketed to different
points on the St. p. & NJ. roads. A much
greater number arc waiting in the old
country intending to migrate next fall
or next spring. for the reports which
these farmers will send back. AS for sev-
eral years the Norwegians coming to this
State have preferred the central and
northwestern counties, it is more than
probable the reports from these new
comers will bring many more to follow
them.
Mr. A. E. Johnson, representative of
the Cunard and Royal Mail Steamship
l;no roNOrfc tbot tho Govthio No1to ap1
Plmyra landed at New York the other
day about two thousand European immi-
grants, the most of whom are ticketed
for railroad points in the New North
west. The Olympus, of the same line,
also landed at Boston Sunday about
three hundred passengers ticketed for
Minnesota, Manitoba and Dakota
Mr.. Eldridge, travelling agent of the
Northern Pacific, arrived here yes
terday with an excursion and prospecting
party of twenty-five persons, ladies and
gentlemen from Orion, Ills, ,-ticketed to
jamestown, OAK, and intending to spend
two or three weeks in Northern Dakota.
Included in that party is Mr.. NJ Ludi,
publisher of good weekly paper at
Or ion.
The Northwestern railroad company,
having found the hotel cars failure, is
replacing them on its Chicago and Oma-
ha line with dining cars, which are said
to be the handsomest restaurants ever
seen on wheels.
The freight traffic on the Northern Pa
citic is very large this season and that,
with the movement of construction ma
terial keeps all the company's rolling
stock steadily employed.
A detachment of ninety men of the
Canadian mounted police, with thirty
horses and equipments, was taken west
from Duluth last night by the Northern
Pacific. They came by lake from Col
lingwood, and are going to Fort. Mcleod
bv way of Bismark and Benton, to re-
lieve men Of the police who have served
their term of one year on the frontier.
Notwithstanding the great trunk line
pool, west bound fourth class freight, New
York TO Chicago, is being carried for
twenty-five cents, which is fifteen cents
less than the regular and pool rate.
The Chicago, St. Paul & Omaha Of
ficers returned from their tour to Omaha
yesterday, by way of the NJ. 81 st. l.. road
from Merriam Junction to Minneapolis.
The Lumber line, which now employs
two thousand cars, is composed of the
Wisconsin Central Sc Chicago, st. Paul &
Omaha; Sioux City & Pacific, and Kansas
CITY, st. Jo g. Council Bluffs railways
The cars of this line, built especially for
lumber carrying are familiar objects in
railroad yards of Southern Minnesota,
Southern Dakota, Western Iowa and Mis-
souri, and throughout Kansas and
Nebraska.
Gen. Haupt, general manager of the
Northern Pacific, returned yesterday
from what he regards as his first monthly
tour of inspection over the company's
roads In his visit to the Missouri di-
vision he found that the track layers were
within thirty eight miles of Glendive and
prepared to advance westward at the rate
of nearly two miles day. In the bad
lands he observed the continuous burning
out of Ignite coal veins, which are sup
posed to take fire by spontaneous combus-
ton, and was especially interested in the
fact that vast amount of clay
in the buttes has been turned into an
excellent material for ballasting the rail
road. This brick-like material can be
got out in any desirable quantity at mod
crate expense, and Gen. Hauptis of opin:
ion it will be extensively employed for
ballast on the Northern Pacific road On
this account, and because of the good
grazing between the buttes, he concluded
that the bad lands are not altogether bad
Beyond the bad lands, to the Yellowstone,
he was informed, there is fine, rich
prairie country. The preliminary work
for the railroad bridge over the Missouri
at Bismarck, he found to be making good
progress, so that not more than one more
winter will elapse before the road will be
made continuous at that point.
Duluth shipping Ne,rs.
Especial Telegram to the Globe.l
DULUTH, MIMI, May 17.-Arrived: Pro
peller Sovereign with 416 tons OF Canadian
Pacific steel rails; barge Thomas Palmer, with