Daily globe., 1883-07-21
RAIL AND RIVER.

agent of the Gould system of Southwest
ern railroads, left yesterday for Chicago
The receipts of the Canadian Pacific
Railway for the first week in July were
$4,000, against $4,000 in the same
week of 1882,
The furious storm of rain that visited
st. Paul Thursday night extended as far
as Jamestown, west of that point it was
cloudy and cool.
The son of Chief Justice Waite passed
through st. Paul yesterday in special car
on his way to the Yellowstone where his
father was injured.
Information was received yesterday from
all parts of the ST. Paul & Manitoba road
that there was plenty of rain everywhere
and that the yield will be on an average of
15 bushels to the acre.
Mr.. Donaldson of the big wheat farm is
in st. Paul. A short time ago he felt
pretty blue but now, since the rain, he
says he would not thank any one to insure
him twenty bushels to the acre.
Railroad officers in St. Paul yesterday
received a circular from the Northern
Central Railway company, that Geo. W.
Boyd has been appointed assistant gene
raj passenger agent of that road.
The Chicago, st. Paul & Omaha road
will commence Monday to run trains to
Ashland. They will leave Minneapolis at
7:30 and st. Paul at SIS q. m. arriving at
Ashland at $50 P. m. Tickets will be 81.
Mr.. Marvel, of the st. Paul & Manitoba
OF +bo hoo
ters in st. Panl, specimens of wheat from
the Red river valley that was from four to
four and one-half feet in height with large
and full heads looking splendidly.
Contractor Winston says that the North
ern Pacific road is finished seven miles
from Missoula, and that he expects to
cross the Big Blackfoot some time this
week, bey ond which he expects to lay two
and half miles of track per day. The
junction will be made early in September
at the mouth of the Little Blackfoot, where
the Utah & Northern intersects the North
ern Pacific.
A dispatch from Missoula, Montana,
dated the 18th inst, says that Col. Wash
ington Dunn, railroad contractor, was
found dead in a Pullman sleeper last
night en- route to Portland. He sleaves a
wife and two children at Lock Haven, Pa.
Dunn was forty-fve years old and very
wealthy. He had just completed a con-
tract of 200 miles of ofgrading on the North
ern Pacific. His body will be embalmed
and sent east.
Manitoba Free Press, 10: President
Stephen, Vice President Mcintyre and
General Manager Van Horne left Toronto
yesterday for Algoma Mills, where they
will inspect the work on the Canadian
Pacific. Thence they will take the
steamer for Thunder Bay. Gen. Supt.
Egan, who is now at Port Arthur with his
private car, will await the arrival there
from Algoma Bay of the magnates of the
G. P. R., and General Manager Van
Horne.
The general passenger and ticket agents
held meeting yesterday at which H. G.
Davis, of the St. Paul & Manitoba road;
L. w. Teasdale, of the royal route; Frank
Chandler, general passenger agent of the
Missouri Pacific railroad were present.
The rates to Council Bluffs and Omaha
were reduced thirty cents. This changes
rates to all southwestern points, based on
Council Bluffs. Rates were revised so that
tickets can be purchased via Chicago and
ST. Louis for all points in Texas.
"A. E. johnson, who for several years
has been the emigrant agent of the St.Paul
d Manitoba road, has resigned his posi-
ton. In 1867 he was emigrant agent of
the state of Minnesota with Headquarters
in Chicago, and subsequently he was the
agent of the Cunard line, which he resigned
IN 1881. His successor has not yet been
named. Mr.. Johnson has been a very
active and energetic man in the position
and has written and published in both the
English and Scandinavian languages a
very large amount of information, which
has been the means of bringing an i'm
mense number of his countrymon to this
land.
Mr.. G. X. Barnes, general passenger
and ticket agent of the Northern Pacific,
has ISSUED a circular to other railroads
which says: Gas the Northern Pacific will
be completed about September 1, at which
time it will be ready to receive through
business destined to Washington, Oregon
and the Pacific coast; in anticipation of
same, you are requested to prepare and
get IN readiness to place on sale, when the
opening of the Northern Pacific shall be
announced, coupon tickets reading from
st. Paul, Minneapolis and Duluth to
points given herein, which are arranged
IN proper order for Davis or other kinds
of tickets" The circular then goes on to
give particulars of how. they can make up
their tickets.
Grand Forks NeUs: The surveyors Of
this line have at last reached Red Lake
falls, after having been on the proposed
route for five weeks. The new line is a
more feasible one thau at first anticipated.
as the following from the Red Lake Mes
senger will show: after crossing the Crow
Wing river near the Brainerd end they
have met no difficulty whatever, going
through beautifully rich country. and
exceedingly favorable for road building.
the curves being all easy and grades not
exceeding at any point forty feet per
mile, the total length from Brainerd to
Red Lake falls being 1876 miles. The route
surveyed will in all probability be adopted
as the permanent line, and it is probable
that as soon as can be after the directors
act on the chief engineers report. active
operations will begin. The line is located
as far as the crossing of the Red Lake
river, and the preliminary survey from that