Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-07-06
Rd ilrON9 NOteS.


The 'Royal Route" has just issued a
new folder which though small is valuable
Mr.. j. J. Hill, of the st. Paul & Mani
toba road, returned yesterday from the
east.
P. M. Meyers, secretary of S. S. Mer-
rill, of the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
road, is in st. Paul.
&c. Boyden, general freight agent of
the Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul road,
has gone to Sioux City.
The st. Paul & Duluth road hauled Coles
circus from Minneapolis to Taylors Falls
| a nd will haul the same to Duluth.
Vice President Oaks and General Mana
ger Haupt are at Superior and will be in
on the st. Paul & Duluth road to-day.
Mr.. Hiland and Mr.. Clark, of the Chi
| cago, st. Paul & Omaha Office, are taking
out the partitions between their offices.
; The earnings of the Chicago, Milwaukee
& st, Paul road for June were $2,023, 900,
which .is $4,000 more than for June.
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i. Grading will be completed next Wednes-
on the National Park branch of the NorTn-
ern Pacific railroad. Five miles OF track
are already laid and the branch will be
completed by August 1, to the National
Park boundary line.
Six car loads of gold and silver
bullion amounting to $1,200,OOO,
from the Gregory consolidated mine, was
shipped from Helena, d. T., over a special
fast train on the Northern Pacific railroad
for Newark, N. j., to be refined.
A circular was issued dated July l, 1883,
by II. Spencer, superintendent of the ST.
Paul & Sioux City division Of the Chicago,
st. Paul & Omaha road, appointing w.
J. Allen train master of the st. Paul q
Sioux city division, with headquarters at
st. James, the appointment 10 take effect
the LIST of July.
Helena is just beginning to boom. D ring
the last few day the Northern Pacific road
has sold $4,000 worth of lots. Car loads
of people and stock are going into the
city. The accommodations for the people
arriving are not adequate, ard Cass Gil
bert is preparing plans tor the company's
big hotel, to cost 100000
The directors of the 81. Paul s. Duluth
road held meeting yesterday at which d
lease for ninety nine years was made OF the
Minneapolis IL ST. Louis road to the ST.
Paul IL Duluth road. This lease covers
the road from Minneapolis to White Bear
and Taylors Falls. This gives the ST.
Paul & Duluth road an entrance into Min
neapOlis. The price paid is 30 per cent
of the gross earnings.
All the intelligence received at the gen
eral Office of the ST. Paul & Manitoba road
yesterday and the day before goes to show
that at the latest accounts the Red river
valley was all right. For some days very
serious fears have been entertained that
the weather was 90 dry
up in that region, and that the
crops would suffer in very
short time unless the needed ram came
down. Although it has been quite dry
the lack of moisture has not reached the
point where it could iniure the growing
grain though it has come very near to that
point within the last few days. During
the last day or two there have been a
number of showers which have moIstened
up the ground a good deal though no con-
tinuous rains have fallen, so that the
wheat in that region looks very
fine and is from twenty-four
to twenty eight riches in height. At latest
accounts there were indications of more