Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-05-11
RAILROAD NOTES.

The Fergus Falls train was five hours late
yesterday.
Messrs. Porter, Hatch, Hiland and Lincoln
have returned.
The railroads have been telegraphed to send
forward their emigrants.
A special train will bring in to-day large
number of settlers for the Manitoba country.
The st. Paul & Manitoba road is now run.
ming trains into Winnipeg. The water has
fallen little.
Mr.. Kimball, assistant general freight
agent of the st. Paul & Manitoba road, has
gone to Fargo.
E. B. Wakeman returned from st. Vincent
yesterday, and found that during his absence
he had been promoted to assistant general
superintendent.
4 In the now passing flood, the Red river
between Grand Forks and st. Vincent swelled
to such an extent that the waters measured
five miles in width the whole distance.
/ Vice President Cakes and party were to have
left the end of the track yesterday, on the
| Northern Pacific road, about seventy miles
beyond Miles City. From that point it was
| the intention that the party should go out
by teams $50 miles along the proposed line.
The Northern Pacific passenger department
is exhibiting a specimen Of ore from the
| Montana mines at Vaudeville, in the Magin-
Miss district, owned by the stockholders OF
the First National bank of Helena, Montana,
who paid 5000 for the mine. The ore came
from fifty feet below the surface and it is
claimed that it will assay 1000 in gold and
$43 in silver to the ton.
| A special train made up of an engine, bag
gage car, and the business car of the st. Paul
and Duluth company, left yesterday
morning for Duluth, with Mr.. Stin-
son, superintendent OF the road, Mr..
| Coal & Iron company, Mr. E. n. Sanders, and
Mr.. Richards, of the Northwestern Fuel COM
pany, and Mr.. Williams, of Williams, Scott
& Co.
ST. CLOUD, MANKATo Il AUSTIN RAILROAD.
The stockholders of the above railroad
company held their annual meeting st Man.
kato on the 9th instant, and elected the follow
ing board of directors:
Hon. W. Fl. Officer and Harlan W. Page of
Austin; DR.. ". II. Twiford of Freeborn coun-
ty; Henry Foster of Blue Earth county; j.
Ii. Baker of Mankato, Hon w. M. Campbell
of Litchfield; Hon. W. T. Bonniwell and Hon.
W. J. Ives OF Hutchlson; Hon. c. A. Gilman
of st. Cloud.
Subsequently the members of the board met
and elected the following officers: W. 7. Bon
niwell, president; G. A. Gilman, vice presi-
dent; j. II. Baker, secretary; 81. W. Page,
treasurer.
The executive committee consists of W. Fl.
Officer, j. II. Baker, H. w. Page, w. T. Bon
niwell, and W. NJ Campbell.
THE SCOTLAND BRANCH.
The Sioux City Journal OF the 9th has the
following:
"Will Mcnamara came in on Sunday from
| Milwaukee, where he had been to make final
arrangements for the bridging of the Scotland
line. The contract requires the twenty-eight
miles to be done within the next sixty days.
The work will be pushed from both the Scot
land and Yankton ends. MIR. Mcnamara left
yesterday for the Council Bluffs line to bring
up his pile drivers and men. He expects tim
bers and piles to arrive so that work can be
commenced in about week. Ex-Gov. PEN
nington, contractor for the grading of the
Scotland line, Informed a Journal reporter that
| about $4,000 yards of the work remains to be
done. This can be completed in May if the
| weather is not too unfavorable. The track
will begin to 60 down about June l."
RAILROAD FOR MOUSE RIVER.
| Inc UIauu folks fNIH0GGCeT Vi Iuc ftu
inst. says that a surveying party of twenty
seven men, in charge of Mr.. Charles Miller
and Mr.. c. o. Hersey, arrived in that city
last Monday and took the evening train for
Larimore, where they will begin the summers
work of extending the main line of the st.
Paul & Manitoba westward. The proposed
line will run almost due west to the north
shore of Lake Minnewaukon. From Mime
waukon a branch will probably be projected
in northward direction, following the Sou
ris or Mouse river valley for some fifty miles,
and reaching the international line on the
west side OF the Turtle mountains. This
branch, it is said, will engross the attention
of the construction department for a year or
two; and later, the line will be extended due
west, touching the southern head of Mouse,
and keeping on the big bend of the Missouri
This will give Willard, the pioneer city of the
Mouse river region, rail communication with
the outside world via Grand Forks, and make
that the next stampede center OF excitements.
Willard, with its grand water power, timter
and agricultural lands, will with railroad con-
nectioas, soon becomea city of metropolitan
proportions.