Little Falls transcript. [volume] (Little Falls, Morrison County, Minn.) 1876-1894, 1883-10-12
Railroad and River News. .

The western ends of the Milwaukee & st.
Paul system will be connected within the
next few days by the completion OF the ex.
tension of the Southern Minnesota division
from Howard to Woonsocket. The extern
sion of the Hastings & Dakota division
south, has been completed from Wolsey to
Letoher, distance of forty light miles.
Between these Two points the following
stations have been opened: Virgil, eight
miles from Woisey; Alpha, eighteen miles
from the same point and Woonsocket,
thirty miles from Wolsey. On the extern
sion of the Southern Minnesota division,
now nearly completed, the following new
stations have been opened: Roswell, ten
miles from Howard; Diana, twenty -onc
mites from that point and Forestburg
twenty eight mills distant. This new ex-
tension makes direct line from Aberdeen
to Mitchell, crossing the Northwestern
track at Red6eld and Wolsey, the Southern
Minnesota division at Woonsockat, and
connects with the Iowa s. Dakota division
at Mitchell.
The board of directors chosen st the re-
cent annual meeting of the Northern Paci
fic r tilroad company met in New York on
the 9Th inst, and transacted business of con-
siderable importance. Among other things,
the question of the amount of the proposed
second mortgage bonds, that has agitated
Wall street tor a long time. W definitely
without exception, as follows: President,
Henry Willard; first vice president, T. +.
Cakes; second vice president, Anthony j..
Thomas; secretary, Samuel J. Wilkeson;
treasurer, R. 8. Belknap.
Al noon Sunday the railroad competing
lines between Boston and Montreal, with
the exception of the Boston Il Lowell road,
which will adopt the system week later,
will begin to run trains on the eastern
standard time-that of the seventy fifth
meridian. This is sixteen minutes slower
than the Boston time, which previously has
the close of October that most of the roads
of the United States and Canada east OF De-
Iroit will adopt the seventy-ffth meridian.
The following land sales were made dur
ing the month OF September by the North
trict--31, 1916. value received, $133, SIT; six
1, town lots $500. Montauk distlict-7 ,065
! acres. $33, 95S; sixteen town lots, $26,016.
Western district-1O, $40 acres, $51 ,O24; six
town lots, $485. Total, &c. $50 acres, $218,
$50: TWENTY. eight town lots, So, 81.
A new freight depot of the Winona & ST.
Peter railroad at Winona will be occupied
. and opened for business on the 18th inst
It is the best freight depot on the line of
the Chicago and Northwest ern road between
Chicago and the Missouri river, being near
d u 800 feet long, and is built of brick and
stone. 81 :. !: 81. .%z&esss f
"a new map Of Minneapolis and sault Ste
Marie railway has been prepared, showing
i the distances between points and its uIti
]. mate connections with other lines. Ac
\ cording to this map the distance between
I Minneapolis and New Y ork will be seventy
seven miles shorter than BY other lines.
The superintendent Of the railway service
win ask for an appro priation Of $4,295, 28ss
/ Tor clerk hire for the coming year an IN.
crease Of 1918, 100. For transportation be
wants between ST. 600 600 and $Is, 900, 900
The Omaha road has opened two new
4 stations on its northern division. They ar
6 Mason, 1865 miles from st. Paul, and Wash
81 bnrne. 1873 miles from ST, Paul. s5.8E