St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-15
MINNESOTA & NORTHWESTERN.
Condemnation Proceedings Instituted
For The New Railroad on
The West Side.

The Minnesota & Northwestern Railroad com
pany filed petition in the district clerks office
of this county yesterday morning asking permits
sion to take and acquire right of way by taking
and acquiring lands in West St. Paul to enter the
same with its line and for side tracks and depot
facilities on the levee of the Mississippi river and
for the appointment of three commissioners
by the court to ascertain and determine the
amount of compensation to be paid to the owners
of the lands SO determined to be necessary to be
taken for the purposes and uses of said railroad
company as indicated in said petition and by a
map plan of the main line of said road and ter
minal facilities accompanying it.
The matter was brought before Judge Simons
in yesterdays session of the district court
argued and submitted, and it was
ordered by him that the petitioner
was entitled to take and acquire the whole of the
lands described in the petition, and that William
Lee, John D. Ludden and William Lindeke be
the three commissioners aforesaid 1t was fur
thered ordered that these commissioners hold
their first meeting at the clerks Office of the dis
trict court, Saturday, Jnly 10, at 2 p. M, that
they hold their Office as such commissioners for
three months from date of appointment and re-
eelve $40 day compensation for each and every
day employed in discharging their duties
The petition states that the railroad is to be
constructed from the northern boundary line of
the state of Iowa northerly via the cities of st.
Paul and Minneapolis to the northern boundary
OF the state of Minnesota, and that the main
track, sidetracks and depot grounds in Ramsey
county are already staked out and located
The map or outline of the road and depot
grounds shows that it enters West St. Paul near
the corner of Arthur and Concord streets, crosses
blocks % and % of Brown & Johnsons addition :;
thence crosses the corner of Robe street and
Hoyt avenue; thence through block % of the
same addition, and crossing Winnifred street and
Andrew avenue, runs through block IA of Law
tons subdivision of Brown & Jackson's addition :;
from this point it crosses the corner Of Brown
avenue and Susan street, through block
u of Brown b Jackson addition, thence to the
northeastery side of block 10, Prospect plateau,
northery on the fiat under the bluff to northwest
erly end Of South Water street; thence it runs
north through blocks 40, 10, IS l, 2, 8. and 5
of West st. Paul proper across the northerly end
| of Custer street, and thence noruherly through
blocks 1870 and III across Starkey street and Chi
cago avenue; thence it runs across the easterly
ends of blocks 179, IT'S
and III on Starkey street
and crossing at the junction of starkey aud Fill
more streets in curve eastward through blocks
/ stA4A ~ VI LdEi1 0 EODeFL GOuIJlOH- runs
direct east near the river through blocks g. 2 and
| /, of the same addition, to the levee. The line
! eft road marked out on the map on the river side
extends from Gustav street to Eva avenue paral-
! lei with blocks 2, I, and 5 of Marshall's addi
! ton. The land described as condemned is de-
scribed in the petition as follows:
! certain strip of land extending over and
above lots and 2, block %, Brown G Jackson's
addition West st. Paul, j B. Dufoor, owner;
strip Of land 100 feet wide across lots and A.
block %, same addition; j. B. Dufoor and Phil
enon and PhiIomenaLimoges, owners; all of lot
! 4. block 49, same addition, owner Charles
Hitchcock: all of lots and 6, Lawton's subdi-
vision of Brown &c Jackson's addition, owner,
John c. Coleman; all Of lot of same subdivis-
| ion, owner, Frederick G. WheeIan or Albert NJ .
Lawton; northerly half of same subdivision,
owner, James P jefferson: that
part of north 4 of lot /, block 10, Brown s.
Jackson addition, within 40 feet of the center
line, the same being portion Of Susan street,
owner Edward 81. Wood that part OF lot 4, block
/ block ! 1, same addition. within 20 feet of the
center, portion Of Susan. owner hester Hitch
COCK Al of lot S, block 10, West ST. Paul proper,
| excepting the south 1870 feet of said lot, owner
Felicia Gasner; all OF that part Of the south $50
feet OF lots A. ), 6, block 49, same addition, which
lies northeasterly of line southwesterly Of, par
allel with and distant so feet from center line of
said railroad company, across said block
Is, owner Andrew Jacks; all of lot g.,
block 2, same addition, excepting the south $50
feet of lot 8, owner Timothy Ryan; all of lot 4,
/ block ?, same addition, excepting the south $50
| feet of said lot, owner Daniel Keen or Daniel
Ryan; all Of lot 3, block 9, same addition, ex-
/ cepting the soath $50 feet, owner r. T. French {:
ali Of lot 1, block 4, owner c. Crowley that part
! of the southerly 80 feet OF lot q block 172
/ R9bertson's addition, which lies within 90 feet
of the center line OF the railroad, owner
Mrs. Kate Mckinney; that part of lot
/ 10, bloc 179, same addition, within 20 feet off
the center line, owner Mary C. Morrison: all of
lot l, block 179. same addition, owner Geo ".
! D.lley all of lots and 8, block III, West ST.
Paul proper, owners Daniel A. Robertson Dow
Ian Doyle and John Doyle