St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-06-12

for said petitioner to build its railroad over
and across the following streets, in the cor
porate limits of the City of st. Paul:
Rice street at grade;
Mississippi street at grade;
South street at grade;
Western avenue at grade;
Como avenue at grade;
Como road at grade;
Smelling avenue at grade;
Dale street by bridge crossing over and
clear of said street;
Courtland street and Lafayette avenue by
pas sing under the travelled roads by an
under-grade crossing.
That your petitioner desires to cross said
streets at or near the point or points repre-
sented on the map of petitioners located
line into and through the City of st. Paul,
which is hereto attached and made a part
of this petition.
That your petitioner will have the grade
for its said crossings inspected by this honor
able body and approved by them before the
rails for its said railroad are laid.
That your petitioner will further con-
struct the approaches to said crossings at
grade not to exceed one hundred 100) feet
for the full width of the street. road or
in good repair at it's own cost and expense,
and properly plank and keep in good repair
the approaches to said crossings and all of
the same, and will in all respects comply
with the ordinances of the City of st. Paul
in such case made, and provided.
Wherefore your petitioner prays that
your honorable body grant it the privilege of
constructing its said railroad upon, over and
across the streets and at the points herein
before set forth and as herein prayed All
of which is respectfully submitted.
ST. PAUL 81 NORTHERN PACIFIC RAIL-
WAY COMPANY,
By A. G.. Postlethwaite, Comptroller,
Petitioner.
STATE OF MINNESOTA,
COUNTY OF RAMSEY. o.
A. G. Postlethwaite of said county, being
first duly sworn, Oh his oath says that he
is the Comptroller and Land Commissioner
of the above-named petitioner, that he has
read the foregoing petition and knows the
contents thereof, that the same is true Of
his own knowledge.
A. G. PoSTLETHwAITE.
Subscribed and sworn to before me on
this 9th day of June, A. D. 1885.
Notarial Seal. CHARLEsJ. BERRYHILL.
Committee on Streets and Aid. Van
Slyke.
From the ST. Paul 6 Northern Pacific Rail-
road Company
To the Honorable President and Members
of the Common Council of the City of st.
Paul:
In the matter of the petition of the st.
Paul & Northern Pacific Railway Company
for the vacation of Grove street, from
DeSoto street to the western boundary of
Tho ,irr r Of no
oils & Manitoba Railway Company; of Burr
street, from Grove street to the same point;
of Woodward street, from DeSoto street to
the same point: all that portion of Herkimer
street lying and being west OF the western
boundary line of the right of way of the ST.
Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Railway
Company, and Bridge street, from the alley
in block five 81, in Warren & Winslow's
addition to the northern terminus thereof;
also for the vacation of the alley through
block ten (10), of Brunsons addition, and
the alley extending through block five ~ OF
Warren & Winslows addition.
Your petitioner respectfully represents
that 1t is a corporation duly organized,
erected and existing under and by virtue of
the laws of the State of Minnesota, and ell
gagged in constructing q line Of railroad in
the State of Minnesota.
Your petitioner, the St. Paul & Northern
Pacific Railway Company, is now actively
engaged in building and constructing a
double track line of railroad between st.
Paul, Ramsey County, Minnesota, and Min
neapolis, Hennepin County, Minnesota, and
has purchased its right of way between and
into both of the aforesaid cities, expanding
therefor large sums of money, to-wit: Many
hundred thousand dollars.
MThat your petitioners line of railroad is
now being constructed upon, over and across
blocks nine (9) and ten Q0) in Brunson's
addition, and block five 81, Warren & Win
slows addition.
That your petitioner, the St. Paul &
Northern Pacific Railway Company, is the
owner of lots seven e., eight (S), nine (9),
ten (10), eleven QD and twelve Q2), all Of
block ten (1O), Brunson's addition; that the
greater portion thereof constitutes the prop
erty facing Oh Grove street, between DeSotO
street and the western boundary line of
the ST. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Rail-
way Company, the points between which
your petitioner prays for its vacation.
That said street is not and never has been
used by the public as thoroughfare.
That your petitioner owns all and Singu-
lar the property fronting on Burr street,
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the st. Paul, Minneapolis & Manitoba Rail
way Company.
Your petitioner, the St. Paul & Northern
Pacific Railway Company, is the owner of
lots seven (D, eight (S). nine (9), ten Q0),
eleven (11) and twelve (12), in block nine
co. of Brunson's addition, and lots one o.,
two (2), three (3). four az, five 81 and six
(6), in block ten (10) of the same addition,
which constitutes all the property lying on
Woodward street. from De Soto street to
the western boundary line of the ST. Paul,
Minneapolis 81 Manitoba Railway Com
pany.
That your petitioner, the St. Paul &
Northern Pacific Railway Company, is the
owner of majority of all the property ly-
ing adjacent to and on that part of Herki-
mer street which lies west Of the western
boundary of the St. Paul, Minneapolis &
Manitoba Railway Company.
That your petitioner owns majority of
all the property lying and adjacent to Bridge
street, from point where the same is in
tersected by the alley way through block
five (5) of Warren & Winslow's addition,
to the northern terminus thereof.
That no part OF proportion of the streets
OF alleys between the points hereinbefore
mentioned now or ever have been used or
opened to the public as thoroughfares, and
for natural causes, never could be advan-
tageously used or occupied as public
streets or Otherwise, as an inspection thereof
will fully show.
That it is necessary to vacate said streets
and alleys at and between the points here
inbefore stated to enable your petitioner
fully and advantageously to construct,
maintain and operate thereon its said line
Of railroad with the necessary side
tracks, switches, bridges, culverts and
terminal facilities in the City
of St. Paul, so that it's right of