Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-04-02
RAILROAD NOTES.

i Eight car foauS Oh ehlSrahS ieA1 ior
Winnipeg yesterday.
Harry Ives, assistant general manager
OF the 81. Paul Sc Manitoba, has gene 10
4 Chicago
High Spencer, superintendent Of the
western division of the Chicago, ST. Paul
& Omaha road, is in st. Paal.
A party from Eau Claire left last night
on the St. Paul & Manitoba road for
Portland, where they will locate.
John G. Spooner, solicitor of tho Chi
eago, st. Paul 81 Omaha road, was IN St.
Paul yesterday, and went TO Madison.
| A party of Polanders from pennsyl-
vania passed through 81. Paul last night
! for Stephens, where they will locate.
Others are to follow.
| 1t was the intention of The Northern
| Northern Pacific to make q change Ia its
time table to-day, but il has concluded TO
/ vail TIL next Sunday.
The successor of Mr. EDDY OF the st.
! Paul 81 Duluth road has not yet been
| DaADCSl. kI ID tu0G III 1lS W Ii w ~AsASA
| w. Ii. Dixon or A. Ii. Bodie.
! The regular Winnipeg tram on the St.
Paul 81 Manitoba road shas should have
started cut at s o'clock yesterday morn
| ing, did not get away TIL $3.50.
| Mr.. G. F. Julou left last night for
Stephens with L large party OF emigrants
! from Wisconsin, who Will locate On the
! line Of the ST. Paul 81 Manitoba
| l.. D. Underwood, superintendent OF
The Southern Minnesota road, teiegraphs
that he is well, in no danger of dying at
present, and will be In St. Paul this week.
Two families from BOsQuer county,
| Texas, left for Grafton yesterday, and
twenty or thirty others also went up on
the train last night, all bound for the Red
River valley.
II. Clark s. Co. have changed The
name of the town Of Coulson to Bill
iings, in honor of Ex-President Bill
! ings, whip is still one OF the directors and.
largely interested in the road. ..
The best news the Northern Pacific &
Manitoba people received yesterday. was
that the snow was thawing up north.
They hope their troubles are all over.
The trains yesterday ran all right.
MIR. Stephens OF Fishers Landing is in
St. Paul and says that week
ago the snow was three feet
on the level in the upper
country, while to-day 1t is not deep
,,.oI-n rnnd efnjrh1pr
Mr.. w. II. Donaldson the owner of the
twenty five thousand acre farm al Ken
nedy, was in town yesterday and reports
the snow disappearing very rapidly in
the upper country and he thinks he will
he through seeding in few days
Mr.. HOLSTER who resigned his position
on the Chicago, milwaukee, Is st. Paul
Paul has been assigned TO another posi-
tion on the same road, but the position
has not been announced, nor has he de.
cided to accept. He will be advanced to
some satisfactory position.
Mr. Kenyon, one of the most popular
as we'll as efficient passenger agents at
the Union depot, handed in his resigna-
ton 10 the company yesterday, with the
idea of going into some business with
more variety about it. Dir. Kenyon's
pleasant face and CHEEKY voice VIII be
missed by all habitues OF the depot
The Northern Pacific land sales for
March amounted 10 1856 acres for
S107,723 Yesterday MIR. Newcomb con-
summated sale OF $3.50 acres in
Siutsman and Logan counties, south and
southwest of jamestown. The cOn!rac.
has clause in II providing for The carly
improvement and settlement by large
number of families. The purchasers
represent Company that viii be organ
lied by those who Hrc going 10 locate on
the land.
Land Commissioner Power, Of the st.
Paul 6 Manitoba road, reports healthy
business for the first three months of
1852. During that time 1856 sales were
made, amounting to 81, sos acres. ayerag
ing 997 acres To each person. This fact,
together with many others OF similar
character demonstrates the policy pursued
by this road in encouraging settlement
and cultivation. Both are regarded IS
important factors in the interest not only
OF The railroad but also Of the state at
large.
"A NEW RAILROAD.
Frank Ives, Of Cr0Okston, 10 in st. Paul
TO complete arrangements for building
railroad which is 10 be called the Red
River Is Lake of the Woods railroad.
The officers are Frank Ives, presi-
dent; g. +. Copeland, vice president;
Arthur Yuerpahlt, ali of CroOkston. MIR.
Ives has SO far completed his arrange
ments that he can assert with full con-
fidence that the road will be built from
Orookston TO st. Hilaire by the Let Of
September. and from there TO the Lake of
the Woods The country around st.
Hilairc Is well supplied with oak timber
suitable for ship building. The prophet
ors. who are the railroad projectors, own
one hundred and fifty acres of This tim
Der land, and fine water power. with q
fall of twelve feet, with the whole volume
of the Red liver. There is good egri-
cultural country north OF ST. Hilnire for
twenty-five miles, also east for twenty
mikes South and southwest of the town
it is also good. 1t may be said, in q gen.
ersl way, that the whole country up
through tho country around Red Lake,
and Lake of the Woods, ab0unds in
TN, har ~ h;eb pan ha faNa ad down the Rcd