Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-30


=. Manitoba railway. ,D.r.t;orNII
i'll probably be continued 81 ;. 4N.ll
pring towards Devils lake 81 .haui,AI
ae grade follow its PR .se,t xssJesIt,
ERECTION. the line must -. rAsa lI.L.
lther at its northeastern -. =. ..,,a
'me probably undeterr ,;n.5 80. Nm it,
orthern shores. No ths while ars
'ked by the syndic =. - ndessa =. 90
~ 49, 'noSoi res, the Devils Lake
Isl " !p ;, to believe, and on the
~ 'u's belief, to invest their
D., NJ ,werful corporation like the
,.ded -. 90 Aitoba railway can be per-
g ~ nc. lpelled by a ring of speculat-
, 49,. LTowner and Capt.Griggs type
: nrass, he direction of their road from
,nrse r. It and geographically natural
cnlt wards point not perhaps SO DIFF
ew, access from railway point of
,ad IS of egress. For supposing that the
=, were diverted from its present west
course towards Odessa, either of two
suits must follow. The line must either
un across the channel at the narrows, and
continuing its course, skirt the southern
and western shores of the lake before run
ming northwest again, or else must back
out from Odessa, making its way in
the shape of the ''letter V"
and creep along the eastern shore
of the lake unil its present
line is again reached. 1t may be OF inter-
est to the general public to know some
thing of the history of the Odessa ''boom,"
of which so much has been heard since the
month of October.
Early in the summer of this year. Mr..
Waidron, who had successfully farmed
large tract in the northern part of this
state, made a prospecting tour around
Devils lake and after carefully looking
the lands over, finally decided to locate
himself at the Narrows, Judging, and right
ly, too. that for farming purposes he could
do no better. Shortly afterwards we're as
sociatsd with him some gentlemen from
Milwaukee. Up to this time it 10 beyond
doubt that neither Mr.. Waldron or his
friends had any intentions Of laying out a
town site at the Narrows. II seen ap-
peared, however, that Mr.. WAldron was not
to be left in undistarbed possession. A
body of spectators, whose business il was
and is to boom town sites in the valley
Of the Red river,or wherever gullibls pub
lie will follow them, and Who attempted
not long ago to anticipate their Odessa
venture at a wretched hamlet named
Harrisburg, on Stump lake. cast eyes
Oh the '"Narrows," and after
one or two failures, succeeded
in making an arrangement by which all
the claims which Mr.. Waldron and his
party controlled we're pooled" It was then
that the newly formed ring" determined
to make An onslaught on the public purse
and lay out a townsite, which was to be
the county seat of Ramsey county, then the
capitrl of Northern Dakota, and lastly the
great center of trade west of st. Paul.
But as these persons we'll knew. to lay out
town site and to make town, are two
widely different things, and the result ar
rived at by a council of war, was, that, to
'sboom' any new town on DEVILS lake
without aid from the st. Paul, Minneapo-
lis & Manitoba railway, it would
be necessary to make very strong dem
onstration. For this purpose the place
was widely advertised journals subsidized,
hints thrown out that Mr.. j. j. Hill was in
terested in Odessa. and lastly the most s1-
pensive scrip in the. market was laid on
some hundreds of acres of land around the
Narrows, Valentine, scrip worth $50 an
acre. Having made good their title to the
land, the township was surveyed privately,
Odessa was christened after the Great
Black sea port by Colonel Towner, the
town was plated out'lan with flourish
oftrumpets was thsown on the market, a
truly extra ordinary sale of lots taking
place at Grand Forks on the 18th of Decem-
Der. As to the bona ;fde nature of this
$4,000 transaction H;credat Judmus." One
remarkable fact may be noticed, that, on
being asked for . guarantee that the rail-
road should touch the town, the syndicate
prudently declined to do anything of the
sort. Surely it is not too much, to ask the
public to await the course of events in the
next few months, and Notwithstanding the
wonderful announcements of sales of real
estate, the building of mills, stores and in
land sea fleets, to keep its money in its
pocket until the arrival of the rail-
road settles the question of a
DEVILS lake town. Not little
has been said in favor of Odessa, ON the
ground that prominent railway official
is q member of the syndicate. As rule,
do railroads shape their course to suit the
views and pockets of subordinate executive
officers!
"You coat get round the uo~so0s" is q
brilliant saying attributed TO Colonel
IOWAer. Perhaps not. But - not few
will hnd - their cost next summer, yol
nay travel west without performing the
tedious operation of ''0estssg rosnd" the
naYYoWs.
To seaelud& Il 1t probable that
the q. Paul, Minneapolis l. Aaaitoba
railvsy will make their own town site .
point west, or nearly vest, Of their
present ts1ninns, and which the company
win own entirely thsmsslvsa, or On the
other hand. 10 it likely that the present line
Of road will be diverted some miles eat Of
it, natural course to touch Odessa, in order
10 all The pockets Of a ring Of sps6slatsrs
10 whose designs The company must be
naturally aAtagonistic, seeing that every
dollar pat into Odessa is in . sense stolen
from the Golfers of tho company. I think
the ansvsr il easy to make. Apologiziag
for the lsnSth Of my letter. am. sir. yeur
obeaiont servant T. I.V.
.-,e WON A HEAT.
Tho Mutual Union succeeds In Having the
+ order 70 Sue for = Vacation Of Its Charter
vaeated--Csrn Sales in New Yerk---City
ADJUSTMENTS.
NV YORK, Dec. 29.-Judge Armour, in
the an neriOr court gave a decision unon