The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1883-10-11
railroad News Items.

Articles of dissolution have been filed Of
the Minneapolis, Sault Ste. Marie & Allan.
tic railway, which was organized on the 7ih
of August, and the articles of association of
company bearing the same name have
been filed. The object of Il is corporation
is to construct, maintain and operate
railway from a point in Polk county On the
st. Croix river, and on the boundary line
between Wisconsin a. d Minnesota, near the
village OF Osceola, running in an easterly
direction through Wisconsin to a point on
the Menominee river, on the northeast
boundary line of the state at or near the
town OF Florence. The line may con-
meet at a point upon the bound
ary line between the states of Wis.
consin and Minnesota with any railway
which shall be constructed from that point
to Minneapolis and at points on the north.
railway which may be const1uc.e ed from that
point to the Sault Ste. Marie river. The
length of the lines is to be about 225 miles,
and will extend into or through the coun.
ties OF Polk, Barron, Washburn, SAWYER,
Chippewa, Price, Lincoln, Florence and
Taylor. The capital stock is $4,000 600,
divided into $4,000 shares Of common stock
and %, 900 shares preferred. The board OF
directors for the first year is composed OF
the following mex, all residents of Mime
aPolis: W. D. Washburn, president; H. T.
George 4. Newell, Anthony Kelly, NJ. Lor-
ing, Clinton Morrison, J. K. Side, W. w.
Eastman, W. d. Hale, G. A. Pillsbury and
Charles J. Martin.
The new through rates of the Northern
Pacific. which went into effect the 1st inst
are: To Portland $95, reduction of IS; to
San Francisco 500, reductio, of $25; to
Tacoma $95, reduction of SIP; to Seattle
1876, reduction OF $13; to Townsend $685.,
reduction of $13; to Victora $lO1, a re-.
duction of $12. East of Portland rates
nav. al 80 been reduced and graded back to
Alnsworth. Rates south OF Portland: on
the Oregon Railway & Navigation are based
on the reduced rates to Portland.
President G. s. Barnes of thel Northern
Pacific elevator company says that the first
cargo of Washington Territory wheat
has arrived in Fargo. It consists of II 600
bushels, and came through from Wala
Walla in eight days. Toe grain is winter
wheat, and is OF light color. Wheat inspec-
tors who have examined it pronounce it iE-
terior te No. hard. It is said much wheat
will be shipped in this way over the North
ern Pacific.
General freight agent Mellen, of the Chi
cago & Northwestern, has issued circular
announcing that joint tariff No. 100 of A pril
=, 1883, IN connection with steamboat lines
on the Missouri river, between Ch1capo.
Milwaukee, Racine, or Kenosha and Pierre.
OAK, on business TO and from trading points
on the Missouri river above Pierre, and be.
low bismarck, has been cancelled.
The Minneapolis & Sault Ste. Marie Rail.
ho1l
9th inst, and further perfected its organiza.
ton by rc-electing the following officers:
President, w. D. Washburn; vice president,
Z. a. Pil1sbnry; treasurer J. K Side; sec.
retary, Marsa Z. Hawkins. This election
seems to have been mere matter of form
IN the legal reorganization ofthe company
The route of the Milwaukee e. St. Eau
extension from Eau Claire to Chippe va
Falls has been slightly changed. I crosses
the Chippewa at the pulp paper mill, Chip
pewa rails, and then runs to q point neal
the Eddy mill, where it reaches the river
which it recrosses at thu Grand IslaMd mill'
couple OF miles north of Chippewa Falls
Special agents have been appointed upon
the Montana. Yellowstone, Missouri and
Dakota divisions of the Northern Pacific.
whose sole duty it will be to look after the
conner: OF emlgrant passengers. They are
to go from one train to another and see
that the cars are properly lighted and heat.
ed, and make all necessary arrangements
at the various eating stations.
The st. Paul & Duluth gross earnings for
the fourth week ofSeptember were 500. 500.
02, against $33 .e6O,o6 for the corresponding
period of time in 1SS2-an increase of So,
1886. The earnings for the month were
Sl3l 6S1 40; 1882, $3.50, PA. 7O-an increase
OF Sill ,446 10.
The Canadian Pacific has issued a new
tariff. which went into effect on the LIST
inst, quoting rates frocl Prirca Arthur's
Landing, on the western division, to ali
points in Manitoba and the northwest ter.
ritories.
The South Pennsylvania Railroad com
pany, belonging to the Vanderbilt system.
has flied at Harrisburg, notice of all increase
OF capital stock from $4,000, 600 to 500
100000, and an issue of $50, O0O, GOO, bonds.
The Sioux City & Pacific expected to
build $50 miles OF road next year in the di.
rrection Ct the Black Hills country. eoin,:
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