Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-04-01
THE BOOM BOOMING.
Three More Railroads Coming Into ST.
Paul This Year.
A NECK AND NECK RACE.
Between the Rock Island, Illinois
Central and Wabash to See Which
viii First Arrive.
GROUND ON WEST SIDE BOUGHT.
And River TO be Bridged at Commercial
Street TO Allow them to Enter
the City.
THE NEW ''BIG HOTEL PROJECT.
The Great Need Of it and the Eligible
sites for Its Location.
CHAMBER COMMERCE BUILDING.
Notable Sales Of Property Which the
Week and Month Have Developed.
THE NEW 'sBIG HOTEL PROJECT.
The Great Need Of it and the Eligible
sites for Its Location.
CHAMBER COMMERCE BUILDING
Notable Sales Of Property Which the
Week and Month Have Developed.

The month of March has closed, and the
record of transfers and the aggregate
amount of consideration paid shows the
largest sales ever made in st. Paul in the
month of March of any year in her history.
The purchases have notably been for i'm
provement, and great many new names
and new men figure in these transfers,
showing that the outside world
has commenced to appreciate
the commanding situation of
st. Paul as the national trade center of the
empire of the Northwest.
POPULATION.
The postmaster has repeatedly expressed
the opinion that the population of st.
Paul has reached $4,000. Another confr-
nation of this is found in the fact that the
number Of children now enrolled in our
public schools approximates 5000, and
heretofore 1000 children enrolled IN the
pablo schools has stood for 10000 of pop
ulation. This has always been considered
fair basis from which to
We have fully 10000 inhabitants
within the city limits on the first day of
April, A. D. 1888.
NEW RAILROAD SENSATION.
The latest sensation and the bigg est one
for st. Paul yet developed is the assurance
that the Rock Island railroad will
build a line directly to St Paul from
Cannon Falls, coming in on tho west side
under the bluffs, striking the river nearly
opposite the foot of Commercial street on
this side. The plan eontsmplates a rail
road bridge across the Mississippi to land
on the east side about the foot of Com
msrcial street, running thence out by the
Duluth machine shops to where it will
connect with the Northern Pacific tracks,
Place union depot. 1t will also connect
With the present tracks of the Minneapo-
lis & st. Louis Railroad company north of
Lake Como.
The bridge across the river will not be
high bridge, but will DO q low one, only a
few fest above the highest high water
levsl, and will have a 400 foot draw, so as
tie afford ample facilities for the passage
of the largest steamboats, and wide fleets
of barges. There will probably be wagon
road and foot walks to accommodate
travel. The Illinois Central, now only
about 100 miles distant to it's nearest point
in Iowa, will also push for West st. Paul,
and the Wabash is understood to be not far
behind in its plans for reaching this city.
These three trunk lines are all coming,
and it will be race to see which can get
here quickest and get possession of desiI a.
bic yard and track room. It has been
kept quiet while negotiations were in pro-
gress, and these great corporations did not
want the facts made public until they had
actually secured all they wanted. Indeed,
some of the officials who have been nego-
tiating still deny that any such plan is on
foot, and they will doubtless do as the
railroads did when We first made public
the Rice and other purchases
north of the city. They will contra
dict it and still go on buying.
It is safe to rely on all three of the roads
named coming into the corporate limits OF
this city within the year 1884 and the
Rock Island will have its trains running
here before Christmas.
The Northern Pacific railroad was very
active in defeating the scheme for bridge
across the Mississippi at the foot of Broad
way and of course it was figuring for
the bridge farther east, viz: at the foot OF
Commercial street and the motive became
transparent in tho light of the project
, disclosed above.
Well, st. Paul has room for all the trunk
lines that run into the Northwest, and they
are coming.
As omnibuses and hacks back up to q
passenger depot in Chicago to carry the
people off to the hotels and connecting
, roads, so will all the trunk lines of the
continent back up to the eastern terminus
of the Northern Pacific in st. Paul, to
, carry away freight and passengers, and tc
bring return loads to its oontinsnta
trains. The recent large purchases
, of the Northern Pacific, ard It'll
foresight in providing room and terminal
facilities for all connecting roads ha!
been notification to every road that ''tht
latch string is OUT and they are coming
rapidly to realize that st. Paul is the mi
tisl point and the entrepot of q grea
| transcontinental business worth sharing in
THE NEW HOTEL
. becomes more and more of an obviou
necessity as the season advances. TIL
, large number of strangers who come to thu
: city to invest or to go into business ex
} press unbounded establishment that Their
: is so little being done in this direction
The present facilities of the city are al
ready taxed to their utmost capacity whel
there Is the slightest increase in their reg
ular business. The season has no
yet opened, and when it does
there will bs cloud music" from
=. parties who come here abundantly able t,
!. pay for the best accommodations and find
that money can't buy anything but scot
+ in some crowded parIor. or in public hal
g or vestibule. The travelling men who hav
5, made st. Paul their objective point to res
> over Sunday, and who have held SO many
delightful reunions in this city declar