Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-31

other forest products and merchandise,
while in the north bound traffic
grain, flour and merchandise are the lead.
ing commodities.
THE ROADWAY, ETC.
The main line, from ST. Paul to Duluth
Is los miles. At White Bear, twelve miles
from st. Paul, there are two branches, each
OF thirteen miles, extending the one to.
Minneapolis, and the other to Saltwater
From Wyoming station there is branch
of twenty and one-half miles to Tsylors-
Falls, on the st. Croix. And from North
Pacific Junction there is branch of seven
miles to Knife Falls, on the st. Louis river
The total mileage of the road at this date
is 2OS19 miles, no new line having been
built during the year, but the track from
Minneapolis to White Bear having been.
acquired in August last (from the Mime
apolis & st. Louis company under lease
which will probably be made perma-
| uent one. The energies of the
management and the means at their dis
posal have been directed during this year
| to the betterment of the permanent proper
| ity and the increase of equipment neces-
sary to Its increasing traffic. For these
| purposes the expenditures of the year have.
been alb ut 100000. Ninety eight miles of
track have been re-laid with 56-pound
| steel rails. leaving only thirty five miles of
iron rails, which will be replaced by steel
during the coming year. New cross-ties
have been used to the number of 5000,
and about $4,000 has been expended in
ballasting. Six miles Of new side tracks
| 10 IoiI T0r
and other re airs of road bed and track
the expenditure has been about S15OOOO.
Other notable Improvements Of the year
are as follows: New round house near
Posts siding, st. Paul, $4,000; other
buildings on the line of road, $4,000;
new fencing of right of way,
$4,000; new bridges, culverts
and cattle guards. $4,000; filling in the
st. Paul yard, $4,000; new right of way
bought in st. Paul for future improve
ments, $500. The company owns thirty
acres near Posts siding where it intends
| TO BUILD NEW SHOPS,
when its present shop buildings will be re-
moved and the tract of land they arc on
will be used exclusively for the city freight
yard and freight house. The only new
track laying contemplated for the coming
year will be from Rush City across ihe St.
Croix river to Grantsburg in Wisconsin,
distance Of sixteen miles. For this branch
the roadway is graded and
the ties distributed, and ma
terials for bridging the st. Croi1 are be-
ing delivered. The equipment purchased
for the road this year includes six locomo
tives, six passenger cars, three sleeping
cars, and 139 other cars. The total equip
mont at the close of the year includes "a
locomotives. IA passenger cars, 3 Sleep
ing cars, 634 box cars, 20a
fat cars, IL charcoal cars
and 157 other cars of all sorts. During the
coming year it is intended to increase the,
rolling stock by four locomotives, four
passenger cars, two baggage GAYS, 200 box
cars and 100 fat cars.
The lands remaining unso d of the grants
to this road and the unsold public lands
along its line are mostly heavily timbersds
but the large portion which bears oaks and
other hardwood trees has rich and most
durable soil. The country is we'll watered
and there is an abundance of native
grasses. Its settlement has been slow, but
nowhere in the West is there farming
community more prosperous than are the
farmers of this timbered part of Mime.
| cOsos Lucy o4O AAOoCAJ uOAucIS O1
land but they we're able to begin with little,
means and have had to suffer few priya.
tions. For the frewood and ties they
can cut from their lands, in clearing, the
company gives them a cash market at the
nearest point on its track. Their houses,
barns. ETC., are built of material cut on
the ground, with little outlay of money
required, and the forests are protection
from winter storms and sudden changes
of temperature. Their rearness to the
best markets ensures them ready sales and
highest prices for grain, hay. cattle, poul-
try, butter, eggs, ETC., and there are not
few
FORTY-ACRE FARMERS
of this region whose annual cash incomes.
exceed the average of prairie farmers who
depend on wheat only.
There is a notable increase of farm
products from along the line in the traffic
of the road, but the larger part of its way
business will for years to come be in the
moving of lumber and other forest
products. Tie chief seats of the lum-
Der production on this road are at Rush
City. Pine City, Knife Falls and Duluth.
At Knife Falls, above which point lie the
| large pineries of the st. Louis river and it's
| tributaries, the G. N. Nelson LAUNDERING
company has the largest sawnill in the
world. At Duluth there are now twelve
sawmills, all built AND put in operation
within little more than year past. In
connection with the heavy coal carrying
traffic of the road, extensive coal docks
have been provided at Duluth harbor by the
coal importing companies which supply
st. Paul and the Northwest. AMONG other
conditions insuring permanence and in
crease of traffic to this road may be noted
as perhaps most important of all the adj
ditions to the commerce of Lake Superior.
which will soon some from the Canadian
Pacific and Northern Pacific railways. and
from the new line of the Manitoba rail-
way, from the southeast. which joins the
st. Paul & Duluth road at Hinckly.
The st. Paul & Duluth railroad is un-
der control of a directory. the majority of
which is made up of representatives of the
Omaha, Milwaukee and Manitoba railway
| companies. The directory of record at
| this date consists of II. 81. Porter and e.
W. Winter, for the c.. st. p, NJ. & o. com
pany: S. S. Merrill and P. NJ. Myers, for
the c., NJ. & st. P. company; J. J. Hill and
A. Marvel for the ST. p Nj e. nj comma