The Dickinson press., 1883-10-13
Railroad and River News.

The western ends OF the Milwaukee g. St.
Paul system will be connected within the
next few days by the completion of the ex.
tension of the Southern Minnesota division
from Howard to Woonsocket. The extern
sion of the Hastings & Dakota division
south, has been completed from Wolsey to
Letcher, a distance of forty light miles.
Between these Two points the following
stations have been opened: Virgil, eight
miles from Woisey; Alpha, eighteen miles
from the same point and Woonsocket,
sion of the Southern Minnesota division,
now nearly completed, the following new
stations have been opened: Roswell, ten
miles from Howard; Diana, twenty.oIe
miles from that point and Forestburg
t~wenty-eight mills distant. This new ed-
tension makes a direct line from Aberdeen
to Mitchell, crossing the Northwestern
track at Redtield aud Wolsey, the Southern
Minnesota division at Woonsocket, and
connects with the Iowa & Dakota division
at Mitchell.
The board of directors chosen st the re-
cent annual meeting otthe Northern Paci-
fc R4ilroad company met in New York on
the 9Th inst, and transacted business of con-
Siderable importance. Among other things;
the question of the amount of proposed
seco.d mortgage bonds, that has sgitated
Wall street Tor a long time, W s definitely
settled. The old officers were reelected
without exception, as follows: President,
Henry Willard; first vice president, T. +.
Oakes; second vice president, Anthony j.
Thomas; secretary, Samuel J. Wilkeson;
treasurer, r. s. Belknap.
AZ moo Sunday the railroad competing
lines between Boston and Montreal, with
the exception of the Boston & Lowell road,
which will adopt the system a week later,
will begin to run trains on the eastern
standard time-that of the seventy-ffth
meridian. This is sixteen minutes slower
than the Boston time, which previously has
been the standard. 1t is expected lefore
the close of October that most of the roads
ofthe United States and Canada east OF De.
troit will adopt the seventy-ifth meridian.
The following land sales were made dun
ing the month of September by the North.
ern Pacific railroad company: Eastern dis
trict-31,8 l6, value received, $133, SIT; six
town lots. $500. Montauk distlict-7,O65
acres. $33 1888; sixteen town lots, $26, DIG
Western district-1O,649 acres, SOL, O24; siz
$50: twentv-eight town lots, SO, 49,.
A new freight depot of the Winona g. st
Peter railroad at Winona will be occupied
a opened Tor business on the 18th inst
It is the best freight depot On the line OF
the Chicago and Northwester road between
Chicago and the Missouri river, being near
ly 300 feet long, and is built of brick and
tor
A new map of Minneapolis and s3ault Ste
Marie railway has been prepared, shown,
the distances between points and its ulti
mate connections with other lines. Ac
cording to this map the distance between
Minneapolis and New York will be seveaty
seven miles shorter than by other lines.
The superintendent of the railway servic.
will ask for an appropriation of 81, 2s5, %
for clerk hire for the coming year-an in
crease Of $318, 100. For transportation b
wants between $14, COCO o and $1s, 600, 900
She Omaha road has opesed two new
stations on its northern division. They ar
Mason, l66 miles from st. Paul, and Wash
burne. ls8 miles from st. Paul.