River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1883-09-27
NEWS OF THE RAILROADS.

NEWS OF THE RAILROADS.
Work upoa the st. Paul & Northern Pa
cific between st. Paul and Sank Rapids,
| Mimi. is being carried along as rapidly as
circumstances wilt permit The track is
now completed from the jun tion with the
Manitoba road to the site for the bridge
over the Mississippi in Minneapolis, and
| the work of grading is being carried on all
along the line between Minneapolis and
| Sank Bapids. The contract for the culvert
| over Basset's creek in Minneapolis has peen
closed and work thereon will be COM
menced soon. The culvert and accompany
| ing construction at this point will prob
| ably cost in the neiehborhood of $40 COO
and the work will occupy two or
three months. Work has been
| begun upon the foundations for the bridge
| over the river, aad it is expected that in a
| few days the erection of the peers and aou,-
| ments will be commenced. If no unforeseen
| accident occurs the iron work of the struc-
| lure will De- in place by February, and
| The bridge will be ready Tor opening some
| time next spring. A force of Workmen has
| been engaged for the past two weeks in
! moving he fence along the line OF the old
| Manitoba bad On the whole, matters are
! proceeding very satisfactorily, and ii the
| weather holds open late, great progress will
| he made this fall. The length of track fully
completed in Minneapolis-trom the June
| ton with the Manitoba road to the bridge
slte-ls two miles.
legal gentleman IN Racine, Wis. who
| has been closely related with the highest Of
fcials of the Chicago, Milwaukee & St.
Paul Railway company, says he has good
reasons for believing that the right OF way
procured by the company by a special bill
10 congress last year. to build their new
line from Milwaukee to Chicago along the
lake shore, will be utilized before next fall
and that he believes that the location of a
new depot near the proposed line is a good
indication that work will begin before many
months
a party of drunken tracklayers on the
Illinois Eastern railroad raided the store
Frank A. Miller, at Smithsboro, recentlv do
ing about $500 worth ofdamage to the stock
and building. The sheriff with a strong
posse from Greenville, repaired to the
scsne and arrested dozen of the rioters
and restored order.
A LarimOre paper says that it looks now
as though Larimore would be the winter
terminus Of the st. Paul, Minneapolis ana
Manitoba road, the same as last year
Travel 70 DEVILS lake is not liable to be
very helyy this winter, and it would not
be surprising ifs mixed train once or twice
week, for the accommodation of local
traffic merely, would be all the company
would attempt to run.
Vice President Cakes, of the Northern
Pscitic railroad, furnishes the following ia
regard TO the finances of that company:
Earnings $4,000, 600; expenses so per cent.
$4,000, 000, leaving S., 900, 0GO Fixed charges
-Interest on S45, COO 900 bonds and 81 500,
900 scrip IN round numbers S., 900, 600; tax
es, $500 $50; balance, So, 100000 Which
would permit q dividend of per cent. on
s3S, 600 600 preferred stock, and leave u sur
plus OF some $3.50, 600.
A special from Brownsville, Tex, states
that the progress of a train on the Merida
railroad, Yucaton, was delayed many hours
by immense swarm + Iocusts, which cev-
cred the rack and " en- the wheels crushed
them made such a lubricant that the fric-
tion between the wheels and rail was de-
stroyed, and progress was impossible.
1t is estimated that during the season of
1888, 9i6 miles of road will be constructed
by t. e Canadian Pacific. This, il is said,
will make a record without parallel in the
history of railroad building. The total
number of miles now completed is 1902,
and the number of miles under construc-
ton 984.
The railroads are BEGINNING to make
heavy shipments OF coal for the winter
supply. The Duluth read takes on an
average about 100 car loads per day out of
Duluth, all being intended Tor domestic
purposes.
1t is rumored at Des Moines, on good au-
thOrity, that the new Canadian, La Crosse &
Southwestern road is negotiating for the st.
Louis Des Moines & Northern road, now
running from Des Moines to Boone
j. c. Ernest, general passenger agent of
the Pan Handle route, announces until fur
ther notice his line will make the rate 81
from Chicago to Louisville.
The Canadian Pacific has definitely
abandoned Kicking Horse pass through the
r cks in favor of route eight miles to the
north of it.