Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-03-18

idence on Ninth street for $4,000 for
home. Early the coming spring the lines
will be run. locating the tracks, tanks,
turnouts, machine shops, car works,
passenger and freight depots and leveling
and grading off will commence on a stu
pendous scale. OF course these improve
ments will be managed and controlled by
the Northern Pacific railroad, but ii is
to the interest of that corporation to Sc
cure as many connecting lines as possible,
and to give them an equal and fair show
to compete for Northern Pacific business.
These purchases fix definitely and
forever the fact that st. Raul
Is TO be the terminal point of that great
corporation until it has a line eastward OF
Its own. No knowing when that Will be,
but IN the meantime our present pOpula-
ton Will double and quadruple. The ad-
vantages thus secured to ST. Paul can hard
ly be over-estimated. 1t will give an i'm
petus to the growth of this city that will
send it far ahead of all competition in the
Northwest outside of Chicago.
The first purchases made by the North
ern Pacific were made public last Deem
Der when deeds were placed on record for
the Sherman eighty acres, j. II. Davidson's
tifty-two and half acres, W.D. Kinks forty
acres and forty acres from Alexander Ram
sey, aggregating over 200 ceres, all lying
north of the Manitoba tracks and west of
Como avenue. Recently runners were rife
| of the purchase of the Edmund Rice home
stead, which were contradicted but it now
appears beyond doubt that the company
secured the Rice place, 220 acres, for con
sideration of S225,000, about 80 acres from
Ransome for $4,000, a large number of
Bass outlets, a large purchase from Gov.
VIM. r. Marshall, supposed to be 40 acres,
at cost of 100000.
Block 81, of Kittson's addition, just
| north and fronting on Seventh, has also
been bought in the interest of the Northern
Pacific railroad. The Edward Langevin
mill property has a contract
on it at $4,000, but it is
not definitely known whether this is in the
| interest of that corporation or a private
| speculation. The company has without
| doubt secured a great many lots and parts
| of blocks all along the line of Trout brook.
| They want sufficient width to give them
! double track for freight trains and a
! double track for passenger trains, with all
| needed switches, turnouts, side tracks etc.
| The real extent and magnitude of
| their investments cannot be known
until they take possession OF
| their recent acquisitions and begin
their extensive system of improvements.
As soon as the spring fairly opens the city
will swarm with New York and Boston
| capitalists who are quick to see where
| great commercial centers are to be built
| up, and MIR. Willard and his associates can.
and of course will, give them pointers as
| soon as the road has secured what it wants
| for its own use.
NEW BUILDINGS.
Mr.. E. W. Ulrici, the young architect, re-
Gently arrived from st. Louis, has just fin
ished the plans for the following buildings
to be erected at once:
For Chief Justice James Gillian, two
three-story brick buildings, with stores OIL
the ground floor, on Fort street next to the
st. Paul house, forty feet front and eighty
feet deep.
| For Mr.. Charles Faber, adjoining the
buildings of Mr.. Gilfllan. two three-stor!
brick stores, fifty feet front and eighty
feet deep.
For Mr.. NJ. Wild, a three-story bricl
meat market, 25x75. at the corner o
Seventh and Bradford streets, and adjoin
ing, three-story store, also. 25x75.
For Mr.. R. Vollmer, two story, doubl
brick building on Martin street.
Mr.. Willard, the old reliable st. Pau
architect, has just finished the following
buildings: A $4,000 school house at Red
wood Falls; $4,000 school house at Pipe
stone; an elegant residence for Mr.. H. T
Stevens at the corner of Nina street an
Laurel avenue; a nice and elegant resi-
dence for Mr.. H. Nicols on Summit ave
nue. between Rice and Nelson streets;
double house for Mr.. 7. B. Morrell OF
Broadway street; double tenement nous
on Norris street for Mrs. Blackman; hote
with fifty rooms for Detroit, and the plan
for the twenty room summer hotel at Whit
! Bear lake, which the Matomedy societ
will erect early this spring, besides a pa
, vilion, 60x90, for club purposes.
The rapidity with which real estate ale
: are made Is quite notable. AS an illustra
ton, during the week E. II. Murphy sold t
1 R. W. Bell an undivided half interest i
lot L, j. ". Bass acre lots, being abor
D four acres, for $4,000, and Mr.. Bell immt
g diotely sold one half of his interest, c
h one-fourth of the whole, to II. G. Don
nelly for $4,000. Mr.. Bell also bought {
J. B. Olivier, lots Z. 8. 8 and 10, of Hahn
| subdivision of part of block 4, Whitney
l subdivision, for $500, and disposed of
|. one-half undivided interest to Mr.. Dor
3 nelly for $1,700. During the week pa
Q Farwell 81 Stewart sold $4,000 of rea
estate.