Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-12-31

follows:
Shirley to st. Hilaire $50. 2I miles
Brownsville to Eagle Bend .....ls
Moorhead to Halstad s.
Devils Lake Extension ..............21
These new parts of the road are said to
have cost S2,625, 600, or an average of
about $30,500 per mile. The company
also laid new track, doubling its line.
between Minneapolis and Wayzata and
laid rails on the Morris cutoff During
the year 112 miles of the road have been
entirely relaid with steel rails, and about
100000 has been expended in improve
aents Of the road bed. Among other i'm
provemsnts and additions of property IN
1888 along the line of the road was the
construction of twenty new depots
which cost about $500 each.
AT GAINESVILLE depot and
eating house was built which cost $4,000,
and at Grand Forks and Crookston, eating
houses were erected which cost 81 800. The
company also built fourteen section houses
at an aggregate cost of $1e,500, three en-
CINE houses costing $4,000, fourteen water
stations with frost proof tanks costing
$4,000, and four turn tables costing
$4,000. Il has also added abeut fourteen
miles of side track during the year. The
great stone visduct at the Falls of ST. An
thony was completed in November last.
It is about 2, POO feet in length and forty
teet wide at the road bed, which latter is
sixty-fiYe feet above the water level The
arches arc eighty and one hundred feet in
span and are very securely founded and
anchored in the bed rock. part of the
work OF placing the piers (~here the river
current is deep and swift and boils
through great masses Of large rocks,
brought down from above by the water sad
piled N grand confusion was exceeding
y difficult, and was only accomplished by
slow and expensive operations. Goldsmith,
the chief engineer Of the road, from whose
plans and under whose superintendent
the viaduct was built, is to be congratu-
lated upon the success of his great work.
The Viaduct has cost about S1,500,oO0, of
which S350,000 was expended during the
present year. In addition $4,000 wa, az
pended in completing the iron bridge
which connects the viaduct with the west
shore and about $25,000 was expended in
renewing five OF the Howe truss spans in
the old bridge above the Falls. The nev
shops at st. Paul, completed and occupied
early this year, cost for construction, not
including machinery and many of the
permanent fixtures, about $25O,O0O. Since
then large pattern house has been added
and an engine house has been built fer the
blacksmith shops. The yards at st. Paul
have also been enlarged and improved.
The rolling stock of the road has been
increased during the year by the purchase
of % locomotives, 80 first class passenger
coaches. s sleeping cars of the latest de-
signs, s baggage cars, 10 oabooses and 231
fist sGrE.
The gross earnings of the road in 1882
were So, 789, 1872. IS and in 1888 SIS, ASS, 1922
46, q decrease of S321, 450. This decrease
represents q part Of the loss of traffic by
completion Of the Canadian Pacific con-
nection with Lake Superior. This traffic
was very large and included besides the
carriage of emigrants, emigrant goods and
merchandise, the conveyance of iron and
other construction materials for the Cana
dian Pacific. This traffic gave the st. Paul
Manitoba tom porary income of nearly
two millions year and its loss have been
at once 30 nesrly made up by the rapid
increase of the permanent tr2szo of the
road will not again appear in the COM
pEny's record of earnIngs.
The general Offices Of this company are
ali located at St. Paul. TINS principal Off
cers are IS follows:
President, James J. Hill.
Secretary and Treasurer, z. Sawyer.
Comptroller, A. Fl. Bode.
Auditor, s. 3. Breed.
General Solicitor, B. B. Galusha
General Manager, A Marvel.
Assistant General Manager, Fl. C. Ivos.
Assistant General Superintendent, z. =. Wake
man.
Superintendent Fergus Falls division, J. B.
Rice.
superintendent Breckenridge division, W. 8.
Kemp.
Superintendent Northern division, A. Guthrie
Assistant superintendent Northern division,
C. Il. jerks.
General Traffic Manager, W s. Alexander.
General Freight Agent, A. L. Mohler
Assistant General Passenger Agent, Il. C.
Davis.
Chief Engineer, c. c. Smith
Assistant Engineer of Bridges, ETC., n. D.
Miller
Master Mechanic, II. Middleton
Land Commissioner, ). B. Power
Purchasing Agent, J. c. Morrison.
Fuel Agent, R. D. Bloomfield.
Car Service Agent, q. Y Dougan.
Paymastsr, 4. A. Mead.
Travelling Auditor, W. H Lands.
Right of Way Agent, D. A. Mckinley.
Claim Agent and Asst Auditor, s. J Beals.
General Agent at Minneapolis, J. E. Smith