Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-16
RAILROAD Notes.

Ao1AAHAoOAD 1.tUIESe
9cket sellers report decided fall
Ing off in travel owing to Che restoration
of rates.
Messrs. Hatch. Winter and Hiland. of
the Chicago, ST. Paul d Omaha road have
gone to Chicago.
| Mr.. Breed. of the St. Paul & Duluth
| road, and Captain Gere, of the Rove.
Route, are out on their respective roads
paying off the men.
The Northern Pacific train due here
yesterday morning did not arrive till last
| evening, it having been delayed by an &C.
| cldent at Sank Rapids, where a freight
| train was cut in two. Fortunately no per
| son was hurt.
William Stewart, the general freight
agent OF the Pennsylvania COMPANY. and
| q. A. Ford, general passenger agent of the
same company, with several other rail
| road men from Pennsylvania, were in st.
| Paul yesterday.
Mr.Endre Claldih, graduate of the Latin
| college at Bergen, and the Agricultural
college of Norway, and pensioner Of the
college, was visiting the emigration de-
partment of the st. Paul & Manitoba yes
terday.' His mission to this country is to
| investigate the Northwest, particularly the
hed river valley, where he has many
friends. He represents several well-to-do
farmers IN Norway, who. with himself.
propose to come to the Northwest to settle.
Judge Nelson, the piopeer of Marshall
county, Is In st. Paul. He reports that
the farmers Of Marshall county have gone
into winter quarters with the fall work all
finished, that the threshing is about finished
and that fall blowing was all completed;
that 80 per cent. of the wheat marketed at
Warren this fall has graded No. hard;
that Notwithstanding the farmers did not
receive quite as much for their wheat as
| they did last year, the profits have been
from SIG to SIS per acre, and the best
| class of farmers have made more than
| that.
Peter Cornelius, of Polk county
In the Red river valley,
was found at the emigra
ton department of the SIT. Paul & Mani
toba road yesterday. Mr.. Cornelius was
one of the first settlers in that county. hay
| ing settled there in 1871. He was EN- ployed
on the government survey last year and
| found that the Red river valley was we'll up
to his expectations for farming.
He selected a farm three miles
east OF Crookston and now has $40 acres
| OF land. 345 under cultivation. His wheat
yielded twenty-one bushels to the acre,
| weighing sixtyone pounds to the bushel.
! and graded No. hard, all pure Scotch fife.
When he first went into the valley he
| had just $40 and no more.
Arrangements have been made for hold
ing national exhi bition OF railway appIi-
ances, at the exhibition buildings at
Chicago, from May 81 to July I. The pur-
pose of this exhibition is to give Lersons
wh1 have railroad appliances an opportu-
nifty to exhibit them. All such exhibits
| are to be tested by scientific men, and a
| record will be kept of the results and prizes
will be awarded. Exhibitors will be re-
CURED to pay reasonable fee. The mon
~ obtained IS to be devoted to benevolent
purposes connected with the railway ser
vice. No officer or commissioner is to re-
celye any salary. The magnitude of the
display made can be judged of liz some de-
gree by the following extract from the cir
cular that has been printed and sent out:
The Interstate exposition buildings,
located near the business center of the city
"a OAA~tSo, ou tne sHote VI Lake M1cm-
gan, and convenient to the depots Of the
various railroads, have been secured. These
! are the largest exposition buildings in this
| 'untry, and are especially adapted to the.
purpose in question. The main building
is 500 feet lsng and 200 wide. has capa-
cious gallery one-third of mile in length,
and is provided with an abundance of
steam power for operating machinery.
Railway tracks will be laid the entire
length of this building for the accommo-
dation of cars anu locomotives and for use
In making tests, which will be connected
with the tracks of the Baltimore Il Ohio,
Illinois Central and Michigan Central
roads, running within few feet of it's
eastern wall.