St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-14
THE RAILROADS.

Messrs. Fee and Hannaford, of the North
ern Pacific road are expected in St. Paul this
morning.
The st. Paul & Manitoba road is at work
opening its Browns Valley branch and
DEVILS Lake extension.
Col. Shaw, general agent of the passenger
department of the Indiana, Bloomington &
Western road, is in st. Paul.
A large party of North Carolina people ar
rived yesterday, and will go over the North
ern Pacific to Portland and other points on
the Pacific coast.
The directors of the Louisville, KY, board
Of trade met Wednesday and protested
against the cut in the railroad rates from st.
Louis to the seaboard, which is a discrimina-
ton against Louisville. Resolutions asking
remedy were adopted.
Railroad officials in st. Paul yesterday re-
ceived advices from the Chicago, st. Louis
81 Pittsburg road that it is prepared now to
receive and forward freight of all kinds for
points on the Cleveland u Marietta railway.
The great fast mail train came over the
Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul road in II
Paul, and it did not have to hurry at all to do
it either, owing to the solid roadbed and
splendid equipment of the road.
AS a result of the fast mail train business
it may be stated that the writer saw postal
card in st. Paul yesterday that was mailed in
New York March II, at p. M, and as the
fast mail train that brought it arrived here at
$3.50 p. m. it must have come through in less
than two days.
The Fargo, Larimore & Northern road is
being pressed forward, and it is claimed the
road will be of Immense benefit to the
farmers in the counties along the Red river.
The road will run from Fargo north, mid
way between the st. Paul 81 Manitoba road,
and the Casselton branch, north to Larimore
and to Medford and Garfield in Walsh
county.
A report was circulated yesterday after
noon that the St. Paul & Manitoba road would
put on fast mail train Immediately between
st. Paul and Winnipeg, in order to carry the
mail through to Winnipeg at the same rate
OF speed as it is now brought here from
New York. Inquiry at the general offices of
the road was made, and it was learned that
there was no truth whatever in the report.
The Chicago g. Northwestern has issued
circular to agents, farmers and grain dealers
announcing that until June 1, 1884, it will
transport, between any of its stations in the
state of Iowa, corn for seeding purposes free,
subject to the following rules: ''If the corn
is consigned direct to farmers the agent at
receiving station upon being satisfied that
the corn is for seeding purposes only, will
correct Chicago q Northwestern railway
charges to read free ON such shipments. If
the corn is consigned to grain dealers it must
be in full car loads, and before billing is cor
reCted or Chicago 81 Northwestern charges
refunded, consignees must guarantee that
the corn will be sold to parties Tor seeding
purposes only, at not more than 10 cents
per bushel above cost.''
Mr.. George B. Reeve, traffic manager of
the Chicago & Grand Trunk railway, has jus
issued the following circular to agents and
connections regarding freight for Canada:
Sin order to avoid delay to freight at the
boundary line all shipments from points in
the United States destined to points in Can
ada, Manitoba, British Columbia, ETC., must
be accompanied by original and duplicate in
voices of value, which must be certified to by
the shipper as being correct. The invoices
and also duplicate bills of lading must be
attached to the waybills and accompany the
freight. In order to avoid any chance of
these documents being lost they should be
attached to the waybills with mucilage, Our
connections have notified us that they will
refuse to accept shipments for the British
provinces unless accompanied by the neces-
sary papers,"