Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-07-24
Rail Notes.


st. Paul.
Oh. Ives, of the St. Paul & Manitoba,
is in town.
The st. Paul & Duluth road carried 5000
people to White Bear Sunday.
Conductor Conklin carried 1900 passen-
gers on his train to White Bear en- Sun
day,
The Gould Southwestern system of roads
will build hospital for employees at Fort
Worth.
The Canadian Pacific tracklayers on
July put down six miles and forty yards
of track.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul road
received yesterday two new and handsome
coaches.
The Lloyd steamer arrived yesterday
at Baltimore with 400 emigrants for the
Northwest.
Mr.. Hanniford, of the Northern Pacific,
was engaged yesterday in moving into his
new Office.
H. Spencer, superintendent of the st.
Paul & Sioux City division of the Royal
route, is in st. Paul.
Quite party of the Grand Army of
the Republic members left yesterday for
Denver over the Royal Route.
c. B. Wright, formerly president of the
Northern Pacific road, who has been in st.
Paul for some days, has>gone west.
Mr.. Henry Wisner, superintendent of
the bureau of information of the Northern
Pacific, with headquarters in New York,
is in st. Paul.
j. E. UT, general freight agent of the
Burlington, Cedar Rapids and Northern
road, was in town yesterday on his way to
Minnetonka.
The st. Paul and Ottumwa line having
secured a pledge of $4,000 from What
Cheer, asks Belle Plaine to give bonus
and right of way, amounting to about
$20,0O0
The washout on the Chicago, Milwaukee
| & st. Paul road, mentioned Sunday, has
been repaired so that the track is in good
order now, and yesterday all the trains on
the various roads were running on time.
John Muir, the new traffic manager of
the Northern Pacific, left Portland, Ore
gon, for St. Paul few days since, and in
short time will be in his ONCE IN the
headquarters of the company In this
city.
Work is being pushed on the extension
of the Southern Minnesota west from
Howard. The Milwaukee is anxious to
cross the Iroquois line of the Northwest
ern four miles west of Howard, before the
track is laid.
The Diagonal sub-contractors have
begun work within a few miles of
Des Moines. The engineers of the road
are at work at Waterloo, and there is
probability that the line between
the two towns will be completed this
year.
The Charles City I1telligencer says that
Pleasant township in Floyd county is tc
vote on ievying tax for the projected La
Crosse and Iowa Southern. This indi
Gates that the La Crosse road, if bull
through Iowa, will ask taxes from the
counties traversed.
Gen. Thomas, of Ohio, and Col. Caring
ton, from the East, and several other dis
tinguished gentlemen were in town yester
day, and called upon several of the railroad
officials of st. Paul. They left last night
on the st. Paul & Duluth rooad for Duluth
and will go to Winnipeg.
The Royal Route is now open to Ash
land and is ready for freight, the rate OF
which has been fixed at So 40, 80 ana 2Oc
for lit, I'd, Sd and 4th class freight, anG
: 1L15c for 9Th class. Special rates fol
freights classified as A, B, and D are
fixed az 20, III, Is and 1919 cents; grain
and flour zoe: salt, cement and lumber 10c
hortes and mules $44; cattle and hogs $40
sheep $32.
Fargo Argus: The steam pile drivers a
work on the new Northern Pacific bridge
l are whacking down timbers at the rate O.
four blows every minute. Almost all o.
the work has been completed. A gang Of
men are at work with an improved dredgt
cleaning the deposit from the west sidt
piers and the central one. Those in au
thority state that but short time vii
elapse before the structure will be in shape
, Mr.. Hall, of Minneapolis, was in ST
Paul yesterday, endeavoring TO get u
} an excursion to the Yellowstone Park, bu
he had to give it up, for the reason
that the management of the
} Northern Pacific had all they could con
veniently attend to to supply the demand
l of the travelling public without stopping
for excursions. That road is doing
smashing business this season. and every
i thing points to large increase as soon a
the road is opened through, and that will
. be in the course of few weeks.
J., Sioux City Journal: Maj. O'Rourke O
: Carmichael & O'Rourke, contractors TO
g the Cedar county line, was in town yester
e day. He informed a reporter that bn
: thirteen of the thirty-six miles of gradin,
: had yet been let to sub contractors. Al
!, had been let that the engineers had locates
n and as fast as the engineers got NOR
work ready it would be sub-let. Ever!
man who had come on the line yet fixed tt
T take contract had got one, and more ar
wanted. The work on the first thirteen
y miles is going on well, and tracklayin;
will begin the first week in August. H
thought that the whole line would b
located within ten days or tw
weeks at the outside, and that ninet
r days after that the grading would b
| finished.