St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-03-23
The Washington Monument.
Washington Letter.

Washington Letter.
Col. Casey, at the request of Gen. Dunn,
made succinct statement of the progress of
the work He said that the project of the
erection of monumental structure to the
memory Of Washington originated among
leading senators and representatives and
officials and citizens over half century ago,
and in 1880 the society was organized under
an act Of congress.
By 1S4S $500, 900 had been collected by pri-
vate subscriptions and $3.50, 900 were ex-
pended in raising the obelisk to height of
LA feet. In 1876 the government took charge
of the work and has since appropriated $780,
900. With the former amount expended, the
monument at its present height, a trifle over
400 feet, has cost 1897, 600, with balance of
nearly $500 on hand which will complete
the work. Other things being equal, Col.
Casey said the outside Of the obelisk can be
completed by December of the present year,
as he had assurances that the marble would
be delivered in. time. He said the base was
fifty-five feet and the completed height would
be sos feet, the marble roof being fifty-five
feet.
In answer to question as to the height, as
compared with other lofty structures, Col
Casey said that the obelsk would overtop all
other constructions of human hands, the
spires of the Cologne cathedral being sos
feet, or fifty feet lower than the Washington
monument. The weight is 5000 tons, which
will be increased to $4,000 when finished.
The total settling of the structure is but one
and three-fourth inches. The working out
of the pyramidal roof in marble, he said,
would be a work of extreme difficulty, and
h LII ~ 1o%n H. y.
at Rome, for the valuable suggestion that the
rule in structures Of this character was to
make the height of the roof the same as tia
width of the base, which he thought would
complete the symmetry of the work.
Cattle Raising in Montana.
[Ft. Keogh Cor. Chicago Tribune.1
An entirely new industry has sprung up
lately-viz: the shipping of poor cattle from
the east and fattening them on our nutritious
grasses and then shipping them back for
beef. 1t seems to work well, and guess will
prove success. Last year So, 900 head of old
and young cattle were brought out from the
east, and next fall we will send most of them
back as fat beef. This trade is likely to be.
come distinctive business from that of
cattle breeding and raising. This year I
should not wonder if so, 900 head of calves
and poor cattle were brought out from the
east over the Northern Pacific railroad to be
fattened in eastern Montana as against So, 900
shipped out last yeara Everywhere 1 hear
the project favorably spoken of among cattle
men.
A few years ago eastern capital could not
be induced to go into cattle, but now the
case is entirely different, and eastern men
are inquiring everywhere for cattle to buy.
1 remember very well going to Chicago only
two years ago and begging some of you
capitalists to buy herds in Montana at S1S
S22 per head. told the profit in raising
cattle was IS to 20 per cent. per annum on
the money invested. guess they thought
was little visionary; at all events they
would not put dollar into beef.
Since then have seen some of those same
men out here trying to buy the very herds
could have bought for 500 per head and Offer
ing for them S35 per head, with no takers. OF
course it did not require any great foresight
or smartness to see what was coming. was
on the ground and had but to compare the
price of beef east and the price of cattle in
Montana and could see the vast margin.
There was then no way to get the beef out