Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-01-12
RAILROAD NOTES.

Very extensive preparations are being
made at Worthington, on the st. Paul q
Omaha road, for putting up ice for the
southern states.
General Manager Maxwell with Capt's.
Renshaw and Ives, of the st. Paul u
Manitoba road, have gone up the line and
will not be back for week.
Mr.. s. R. Stimson, general superin-
tendent of the St. Paul s. Duluth road,
was at Saltwater and other places along
the line of the road yesterday looking
after the business of the road.
Information was received in st. Paul
yesterday that the trunk lines are effer-
ing to carry flour from Chicago to New
Y ork at 20 cents per barrel and 10 cents
per 100 pounds with prospect Of reduc-
ing this to cents.
Mr.. J.J. Hill and Gen. A, j. Alexander,
of the St. Paul & Manitoba. road have
gone east on business trip that will
keep them away for month OF more.
Among other places they will visit Bos-
ton, Montreal and Ottawa.
Gen. Hatch, Mr.. Hiland, Mr.. Winter.
Mr.. johnson and Mr.. Lincoln of the St.
Paul 6 Omaha line have gone to Gilmore,
the new junction on the Blue Earth
Branch where the st. Paul s. Omaha
road connects with the Chicago and
Northwestern and extends to Des Moines.
1t is expected they will return by Friday
A new station has been established n
the Wisconsin division of the Northern
Pacific railroad, at Superior, Wis. Dis
lance from Northern Pacific junction
twenty-three miles. Rates between Su-
perior and all points on the Northern Pa
cific proper, Casselton branch and Wes-
tern railroad division will be the same as
at present in force between Duluth and
same points.
Applications are very numerous for
hay privileges on the St. Paul s. Sioux
City road. All through the southwest
ern part of the state these applications
come So numerous are they that they
indicate that good deal more attention
will be paid to this this year than ever
before. Hay presses are being put up at
different points on the line. Arrange
ments are also being made for the cree
ton of extensive creameries and diaries
along the line of the road.
Mr.. G. W. Slayton, who is at the head
of the immigration business for the st.
Paul & Omaha road, is completing his
arrangements as rapidly as possible for a
| trip to Europe. He will leave here about
the 18th or 18th instant for New York.
He has already engaged his berth on the
| steamer Illinois, of the American line.
He goes abroad partly for his health, but
principally for the company, which now
has considerable number of agents in
Europe that require looking after. He
| will not return probably before April.
He says the outlook for immigration to
Minnesota never was any thing like as
good as it now is. He receives the
healthiest inquiries from the best men
and capitalists both in this country and
| Europe, and feels confident that the
spring will see something astonishing in
this line He has his hands full of cor
respondence, which keeps him very &C
lively engaged. He yesterday received
letter from Mr. Simpson, an English
gentleman who was here last season, in
which the writer speaks in great praise
of the quality of the soil and the farming
capacities of the lands in southwestern
Minnesota. Mr.. Simpson inclosed E600
for Mr.. Slayton to invest in Murray
county. He urges Mr.. Slayton to go to
England in April and promises to intro
duce him to a great many we'll to-do peo-
pie with a view to their coming to Mime
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