Daily globe., 1883-05-17
THE CHANNELS OF TRADE.

Passengers and Shippers Hence and TO
Distant Points.
Col. Dick FloHrnoy, of the Omaha line,
is back from Missouri. He says the Kansas
City cyclone made a close call on his peace
of mind.
Emigrants to the number of 115 arrived
from the east yesterday and departed for
points on the Manitoba and Northern Pa
cific roads.
j. j. Hill, presid ent, and A. Marvel,
manager, of the Manitoba road, left for
the Iewa coal fields by special train yes
terday afternoon.
Jay Gould intimated something about a
future connection with the Northern Pacif-
ic, through a railroad from Omaha, on his
recent flying visit to that city.
G. j. Gooding, general agent of the Man
itoba road at st. Vincent, who has been
visiting friends and relatives in ST. Paul
for several days past, returned home last
night.
Commencing on Sunday, the Omaha
d Kansas City express over the Royal
route, which has heretofore and for a
period of five years left at 8 80 p. m, will
start at 4:15, or three-quarters Of an hour
later.
The Great Western Dispatch, Erie & Pa
cifc Dispatch and South Shore line, issue
a circular under date of May -, making
wholesale changes in rates named in their
east bound car load tariffs numbers eleven
and twelve.
The Royal route will to-day put on sale
round trip tickets to Oakland and Lake Ell
mo, accessible by seven. daily trains. These
tickets of leave can be obtained of Royal
route passenger agents, for the insignif-
can't consideration of four bits each.
J.C. Boyden, of the River road, j. H.
Hhand, of the Omaha line, with party of
rail distinguished officials, went to Chicago
yesterday for the purpose of attending a
meeting to be convened in that city to- day
to revise rates from st. Paul and Mime
apolis to points in Dakota.
The Northern Pacific has recently closed
a contract with the Knights Templar, of
Chicago, for through transportation of
their delegates to the San Francisco con-
claYe this summer, by way of the Montana
short line. The misunderstanding between
the Chicago Knights and the order in San
francisco has evidently been arranged.
From May to May %, inclusive, $3.50
emigrants will arrive in New York and
Boston by the steamers Aleppo, Parthia,
Batavia, Tarifa, Bothnia and Samaria, of
the Cunard line, 1858 of whom are tick
eted to the northwest. The railroad editor
of the GLOBE acknowledges his obligations
to Emigration Agent Johnson, of the Man
itoba line, for the courtesy of this iafor-
nation.
The Silver City, Deming & Pacific Rail-
road company issues circular announc-
ing that it will carry freight and passen-
gers at rates graduated by distances. First
and second class freight will be taken at
from four to thirty eight cents per cwt; :;
third class at from four to thirty six cents
per cwt; fourth and fifth class and class
"a" at from four cents to thirty-fve cents
per cwt.; class "B" from four to twenty
six cents; lumber at from four to twenty
cents; ores from four to fifteen cents, and
base metal from four to twenty-seven cents
per cwt. The passenger rates are estab-
ished at six cents per mile.
The Fargo Construction company has
been organized by syndicate of eapital-
lists for the purpose of completing the
Fargo Southern railroad t. the lowe
state line, $50 miles, with w. A. Kindred,
of Fargo, as president; Delegate to Cong
ress Raymond, vice president; A. w. Ed
wards, secretary, and Charles Sweat and
the bank of Fargo, treasurer Several
capitalists of Iowa and Chicago are inter
ested in the company. The ground has
been secured between the Northern Pacific
and the Manitoba track at Fargo for The
depot. The city council of Fargo has al
ready granted the Fargo Southern
the right-of-way down Second avenue
into the heart of the city-a con-
cession said to be worth 100000.
The Manitoba line has issued circular
announcing that Minneapolis Junction had
been regularly opened for car load ship
ments only, and car load lots for the fol-
lowing parties should hereafter be billed
directly to that point unless specially in
str1cted to the contrary by shippers:
Church Il Graves, Merriam, Burrows g. Co.,
Pillsbury & Hubert, G. A. PiIlsbury 6 Co..
Clough Bros, j. T. Elwell & Co., Stanwitz
y Schoeber, j. S. Gillett, Union Iron
Works, Crown Iron Works, P.
Herzog " Co., Stevens Bros,
A'0A4Al, ACusS0u o carpenter, John Martin
Co., public parties consigned to G. A.
Pillsbury Co.'s elevator, Northwestern
Casket Co., W. H. Nudd, Breede g. Brav
and Eastman, Bovey & Co.
S. S. Merrill, general manager of the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul road. and
wife, and P. NJ. Myers, secretary and
assistant manager of the same road. are at
the Merchants. This is the first visit to
st. Paul of General Manager Merrill since
his vacation of five weeks, during which he
took trip to the Pacific slope. Mr.. Mer-
rillhas been making general trip of OBJ
servation over the different divisions of
the great road, OF which he is'the manager.
and now only has to go over the
Hastings & Dakota division to complete
the circle. He reports finding everything
IN good shape, that he had very pleasant
trip to the "slope," but that after all. he
wearied of it before it was ended that he
never felt better, and is more than glad to
get back and again take hand with ethe
boys" in looking after the affairs of the
rad with which he has been so lono
connected, and to the DEVELOPMENT and
building up of which he has done so much
The Ricer.
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