St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-05-17
THE RAILROAD WAR.
The Answer of the Manitoba to the
Petition of the WI. 81 st. H..

Petition Oh the W. ~ Sts
The answer of the st. Paul, Minneapolis
g. Manitoba Railway company in the mat
ter of the petition of the Minneapolis &
ST. Louis road for the appointment of com
missioners to condemn certain lands be-
longing to the defendants, was yesterday
filed in the district court. The answer sets
I'D general denial to the claim that the
system of railway track belonging to the
Minneapolis & st. Louis constitutes the
only adequate facilities for transportation
to and from the mills and manufactures
adjacent to the same, and states that the
Minneapolis & ST. Louis has no System
of railway track" nearer the river than
Third street north and does not reach the
falls or the milling industries situated
thereon. OF the wheat brought to the city,
more than five-sixths is carried by the re-
spondent, and two-thirds of the residue by
the Milwaukee road and that the amount
likely to seek carriage over the Northern
able and hardly appreciate fraction
Northern Pacific operates line from Du-
luth to Portland, Or, and branch from
MINNEAPOLIS to Brainerd, the respondent
denies that of the freight brought into the
city any appreciate part has or will be
brought over the Northern Pacific or the
Minneapoliss& st. Louis. 1t is denied that
the public benefit requires the roads of the
Northern Pacific and Minneapolis & ST.
Louis to be connected by crossing over re-
spondent's tracks, as prayed for. 1t is also
set up that the fifteen-foot strip of land in
contest belongs wholly to respondent, and
is an integral part of the original right OF
way of the First division of the ST. Paul &
Pacific Railroad company, which is now
owned by the respondent; that no right to
maintain single track railroad thereon was
ever granted the Minneapolis IL st. Louis.
The allowing of the Minneapolis & st.
Louis to cross the respondents tracks, so as
to unite the Northern Pacific yard, is OBJ
jected to upon the ground that it will rem
der the operation OF respondents tracks diff
ficult and dangerous, and that any possible
advantage that can accrue to the petitioner
is outweighed by the damage to the re-
spondent and the public. 1t is stated that
the respondent has been at great expense in
building the stone arch bridge, the Union
depot and in grading and bridging Wash
ingtOn avenue north; that these vast i'm
provements have in part been carried on
but are not completed, and that the re-
quests of the petitioner are calculated to
impair and render comparatively useless
such improvements
Two Tracks to the Fair Grounds.
1t now transpires that one day last week
General Manager Marvel of the Manitoba
road and President N. A. Clark and two of
the directors of the State Agricultural asso-
citation, held a meeting and it was agreed
that the Manitoba road should be extended
not only to the fair grounds but 600 feet
within the limits. Some time ago it was
agreed by the Agricultural association that
none of the lines should cross the boundary
line of the fair grounds, and the st. Paul &
Northern Pacific was excluded The latter
line runs the closest to the grounds, and