Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-08-09
RAIL AND RIVER.


John 8. Dodge, Northwestern agent for the
Lake Shore, is back again.
The Sioux City & Pacific has reached Fetch
er, about fifty miles distant from Long Pine.
Mr.. r. B. Langdon, contractor of the Can
ada Pacific, leaves for the west this morning.
Sir John Rose and party are examining the
extreme western end Of the Canadian Pacific.
Mr. Alfred White, western manager OF the
New York Central sleeping Car company, was
in town yesterday.
1t is thought that the lightning contractors
on the Thunder Bay section OF the Canada
Pacific will shortly adjust their differences.
The Wagner coaches on the Omaha line, are
confined to the trains arriving and leaving al
the noon hour. All other trains run the Pull
man palace coaches.
The Milwaukee road had thirty men at
work Sunday at Winona laying 1,5)0-foot
switch to the lumber yard OF Youman Bros. &
Hodgens at that place.
/ The Omaha line now extends to within less
than fifty miles OF Lake Superior. The in
terveRlng distance will be traversed by De-
cember 81, at The latest.
A goodly number OF passengers departed by
the Duluth road yesterday morning, destined
to take passage on one of the Lake Superior
Transit company's vessels.
The grading on the Fargo Southern rail-
way is completed twenty miles distant south
from Fargo. The road has secured right of
way from Abercrombie to the Stsseton res
ervation.
a az "A i,,rx ha fo1ir Oh L.
ing sleepy land, four miles of track per day
are being pat down on the Canada Pacific
railway. The latest gentleman TO attest the
correctness of this statement is Mr.. G. Perry,
of that road, who is now in st. Paul.
An excursion train, OF thirteen yellow cars
of the Illinois Central railway, arrived over
the Milwaukee line at Z o'clock last night.
There were at least 500 or 600 ex.
cursionists on board The cause of the
sudden rush is the reduction of
eycurfion rates from $40 TO SIG, for round
trip between Cincinnati and st. Paul. Many
people are running down from Hamilton,
Dayton, and other interior Ohio towns and
cities, to take advantage OF this remarkably
low rate. A large number of the excursionists
who arrived last night will continue direct to
Miles City on the Northern Pacific railroad.
They have heard so many glowing accounts OF
INC COuutiy tuICuPu WHICH Tue NOrblerD
Pacific runs that they took advantage OF the
first good opportunity to pay it visit. Many
OF the excursionists are wealthy farmers and
land owners, who particularly desire TO view
the wonders of Dakota in harvest time.
A telegram from the Rufus Hatch party
states that they left Fargo at O'Clock yester-
day morning and arrived at Jamestown at
o'clock p. m. They stopped at Valley City
and Tower City to inspect the harvesting OPP
erations which are going On extensively in the
vicinity of those places. Uncle Rufus seems
deeply interested in all that he sees. He
seems TO catch every bit of in
formation that falls from the best
posted people with whom he converses. On
great many points he seems to be as well
posted as the natives themselves. He exam
ines the wheat and barley with his own
hands, and seems capable of making number
less suggestions on the subject of planting,
cultivating, threshing, storing and transport
ing various grades and varieties of grain. He
seems to be choke-full OF all sorts of practical
knowledge, and colceals his own ignorance
on any given point until he has slyly ex
tracted all the other party knows, when
ne tires the same facts blck
in other language. and in
somewhat amplified shape. II is easy to fore
see that Uncle Rufus will make The New
Workers stare when he gets back to New
York. And be will satisfy himself about the
future of the graiu market before he starts for
home. He will also take back with him in
his capacious brain mass of statistics
relative to railroad and immigration matters
as seen in the northwest.