Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1881-09-15
RAIL AND RIVER.

Smith to the Nj. s. st. L. Road-Bismarck
Wheat Army of Railroad Builders
Extraordinary Railroad Building in
Oregon-The River Rise-Boats for ST.
Louis This Week-Personals, Sc.
General Superintendent Hatch, and Assist
ant President Winter, of the c., st. P. & O.
company, returned from Chicago yesterday
on the delayed noon train.
number of scandinavian NJ. E. ministers
returned yesterday over the Minneapolis
& st. Louis road from attending a conference
held in an Iowa town near Davenport.
Col. Charles P. Lamars, who died at Shulls-
burg, Wis.,, August Is, was formerly rail
road contractor, and built portions Of the Hi
nois Central iowa dlvision(, the Southern
Minnesota and other roads. He has also been
steamboat captain on the Mississippi, and
was extensively engaged in lead mining.
The land department. of the Northern Pa
cifc combany has on exhibition sample Of
extraordinarily fine wheat grown ON the up
lands near Bismarck, Oak, by j. w. Millett
1t is beardless variety called White Russian.
The stalks are large and firm, the heads white,
long and well filled, and the kernels plump
and hard.
1t was rumored here yesterday that Major
George H. Smith, late general superintendent
of the st. Paul & Duluth railroad, has been
rendered and accepted an appointment as gen.
eral superintendent of the Minneapolis & st.
Louis railroad. Whether the rumor is found
ed on facts or not, could not be ascertained
last evening.
The St. Louis, Newton & Northwestern
railroad is to run from Mount Pleasant, Ia.
the terminus of the completed portion, via
Newton and Fort Dodge into Dakota Terri
tory, and possibly to a connection with the
Northern Pacific. The rails for 100 miles of
the proposed extension have been purchased
and delivered. 20
General traffic manager, F. B. Clarke of
the c., St. P. & O.. railway, started for
Europe yesterday on the steamer Elbe of the
North German Lloyd line. The Elbe is one of
the fastest steamships afoat, having recently
made the quickest trip on record from Bremen
| to New York, and run from the Needles off
Southampton to Sandy Hook in seven days,
close to the best record of the famous fast
steamship, Arizona.
| The Canada Pacific Railroad company has
commenced its fnanciering on an extensive
scale, by selling to syndicate of Montreal
and New York bankers 100000 of 5 per
cent. bonds, the first issue of $25,00O ,00O
charged on Its land grant in the Northwest.
The price paid is 92119. In October $4,000, O0O
will Ee placed on the Montreal market for
sale, and the same amount in New York. The
balance will not be issued for some time The
Bank of Montreal gets S2,50O,00O for its share.
"The force of men at work on the Denver &
Rio Grande railways extension is larger than
the United States armY!' The speaker was
Elk Governor Hunt, who had just returned
from old Mexico. "How many men are
there?" asked Denver reporter little awed
by the statement "More than 35,OOO," re-
turned the governor laconically. s'Nearly
| 900 of this number are at work in old Mex
leo. There are 5000 or 1000 in New Mexico,
5000 or 5000 in this State, (Colorado) and the
remainder are scattered through Utah and
other localities where we are now doing work. I"
The Work C. Il. r. Norris Has to Ssperin-
| tend.
railway Age.]
| A remarkable feat of railway building will
be the line from Portland to Dallas, Or. when
it is finished. Much Of the roadway must be
blasted in the fllnty face of lofty precipices or
drilled through no less unyleldlng rock, and
every foot is a struggle with nature. About
ten miles below Dalles is bluff of ba attic
rock, rising abruptly 200 feet from the Colum-
ba river, along whose side the road is to pass.
| Men suspended by ropes $50 feet over this
wall drill and blast the solid rock, their work
| being attended with the greatest danger. The
largest blast on the line thus for has been at a
point ten miles above the cascades, mass of
rock 165 feet high, ITO wide and 10 feet thick
at the base, containing more than 10000 GU
bic yards, being removed by the explosion of
| M Il, e Id,
| force to 10000 of black. Three tunnels, from
900 to $50 feet long, are being drilled, steam or
compressed air being used in the work At
| two points new and phenomenal difficulty
| is encountered, the mountain settling or slid
| ing into the river at the rate of about twelve
| inches year, and the trouble will not cease
with the finishing of the road. In other
places the mountain side is covered with
small, broken stones, which slip with every
| movement below, and walls of heavy rock
have to be built high up on the cliff to check
the descent. Trestle work and bridges
| will also have Ito be erected along the
| line. The maximum grade is twenty-sIx feet
| to the mile, and there is hardly a mile of
straight track at stretch. Notwithstanding
these difficulties and the fact that the road
| located only year ago, the Oregon Railway
and Navigation company expect to have the
line of lighty-six miles finished this year. It
Rirer and Boat NetCs.
The river gauge yesterday indicated nine
feet and half of water over the bars to Pres
colt, and unless more rains come, the highest
stage for the fall is about reached. Some of
the bottom lands between st. Paul and Winona
are already overlooked enough to set afloat a
good deal of hay, and to endanger some of
the wood piles along the banks
A dispatch received from the Gem City yes
terday says she is coming up the river on
time, and will certainly be at the st. Paul
landing in time to start on her return trip
Saturday morning. Nothing had been heard
last evening from the steamer Arkansas, of the
same line, but she was expected in to leave
here for St. Louis to-day.
The steamer Libbie Conger, of the Diamond
10 line, will be in tonight, to leave for ST.
Louis tomorrow, probably in the morning.
SALTWATER.
Wheat comes in slow on account of the wet
weather.