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

have Been erected and the great stone
vik6act which is to carry the double track
across the Mississippi just below the Falls
OF st. Anthony, has been about half
completed. This will be the
largest stone bridge in the world and
will exceed any now standing in the meas.
urement of material employed. It will be
about 1000 feet long, consisting of six
teen arches of eighty feet each, and four
of one hundred feet each, and will be
twenty six feet wide and seventy feet high.
It is expected to be completed during the
coming year, when important railway
changes and improvements will be made
in the city.
In st. Paul this company has built two
iron street bridges and has occupied the
enlarged shop grounds it purchased in
1881 by erecting new shops, all stone
buildings, which closely cover a space
having a front of $500 feet and depth
of 600 feet. These new buildings
consist of round house, machine
shop, blacksmith shop, car shop,
storehouse and paint shop, and
with turntables, sidlngs, and other perma-
nent improvements on the shop grounds,
have cost the company about 100000.
IN THE COMING YEAR
the st. Paul. Minneapolis & Manitoba COM
pany is to lay track on the graded line from
Shirley to st. Hilaire, distance of twenty
two miles. This track will be the beginning
of the Red Lake River & Lake of the
Woods branch, but it is not probable the
road will be built beyond St. Hilaire
during the coming year. A roadway near
the Red river, from Moorhaad north, has
been graded ten miles, but it does not yet
appear that the company intends to ex-
tend the grading or lay track on this line
during the next bodybuilding season. No
grading has yet been done west of Bartlett.
on the Grand Forks western line, but
it is semi officially stated that the
company will carry this line via DEVILS
lake and the southwest bend of the Turtle
mountains to the Manitoba border and
will push its construction as rapidly as
possible. 1t is quite probable that this
line will ultimately be continued from the
border by the Canadian Pacific company
to tho lower valley of the Souris or Mouse
river and connection with its own main line.
Towards perfecting its main line the
Manitoba company has this year laid
twelve miles of second or double track. and
in the coming year it will probably dou-
BILE track the line between Minneapolis and
Wayzata. 1t has also planned for i've
tracks between st. Paul and Minneapolis,
and. two of them being now laid, the three
others will be laid in anticipation
Of future needs. The completion of the
great viaduct at Minneapolis, and the
completion of the Northern Pacific through
line are already considered as likely to re-
quire one. if not two, more tracks be-
| tween the two cities. Between East Min
| neapolis and Sank Rapids the two COM
panies, now having one track On the east
| and one on the west side of the Misissip pi
| river, will probably soon need the third
| track, which the Northern Pacific company
has right to lay on the east side right Of
way of the Manitoba company. Very e1-
pensive Improvements are to be made at
Minneapolis for facilitating both local and
| through business, the time for which de-
ponds upon completion Of the great stone
| viaduct, while tho character and locality
OF improvements may be determined
by the action Of the city government. In
st. Paul the company will add more shops
and has in contemplation other improve
ments. involving largo expenditures. the
time for which depends upon pending
evolutions of railway affairs.
NEW EQUIPMENT.
During this year there has been added
to the rolling stock Of the Manitoba road
SO engines. sleepers, % passenger cars,
]. 200 box cars, 400 fiat cars and ~ other
cars. The deliveries have fallen short Of
the orders for the year II engines, Sleep
srs, 80 passenger cars and $50 box cars,
and the orders or contracts for the coming
year call for nearly double the rolling
| stock in use year ago.
THE EARNINGS
| of this road have increased this year over
last year about 80 per cent. The earnings
for the two years. and by months, (the last
three months approximately are as fol-
lows:
1882. 1881. Increase