St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1885-01-01
ST. PAUL NEWS.
OUR WATER WAYS.
What Has Been Done in the
Way of River Improve
ment.
With Valuable Statistics Showing the
Steamboat and Lumber
Interests.
An Exhaustive and Elaborate Report With
Pertinent Suggestions for the
Future.

An Exhaustive and Elaborate Report With
Pertinent Suggestions for the
Future.
The Minnesota commissioners for the i'm
provement of the Mississippi river have SUBJ
mitted the following interesting and valuable
report to the governor:
ST. PAUL, MIMI, Dec. 25, 1884.
To His Excellency, L. T. Hubbard, Governor
of Minnesota:
The undersigned commissioners would re-
specially submit the following facts, statis-
tics and opinions respecting the matter Of
the various river and harbor improvements
now contemplated or in progress in which
the people of the state have direct and in
mediate interest.
The effort to secure cheap transportation
by improved water ways, which the people of
the west have made during the last ten years,
has resulted in such measure of success as
TO justify the hope that the time is not dis
tant when minimum rates will be reached for
the products Of the west in reaching the mar
kets of the world. The aggregate length of
the coast and nayigable river lines on the
continent is so enormous as to make the
work 0: properly improving the whole, work
Of many generations, and should never be
permitted to stop.
In attempting to collect data in relation to
the work, we have confined ourselves to
official reports as far as possible.
The amount of money expended in Mime
sofa during the last ten years for public i'm
provemcnt on Minnesota rivers and harbors,
approximates the following figures:
LAKE sUPEEIoE.
Expended --......-.......Sf15,OOO
Amount required to complete. 100000
Amount required in 1885. 10000
MISSISSIPPI ABOVE ST. ANTHONY.
Expended .---.....'.--....--.' S55,OOJ
Required 10 complete. 10000
Required III 1885. 80. .................. 10000
HTPPEwA RIVER.
Amount expended. Observation-Disclosures. $4,000
Amount required to complete. 100000
Amount required in lSo5............. $1,000
ST. oRoIx RIVER.
Amount expended ............. $4,000
Amount required 10 complete. $1,000
Amount required in 1885 $1,000
RESERVOIR SYSTEM.
Amount expended. INSTRUMENTATION. S41S, 367
Amount required to complete. ....... ,225, 900
Amount required in 1885. ......-..... $4,000
OuexpcuQeu appropriation. l4OtOOO
PRESERVATION FALLS, ST. ANTHONY.
Amount expended. ................... 100000
Amount required 10 complete. 5000
Amount required in 1SS5.-........... $4,000
RED RIVER OF THE NORTH.
Amount expended. Observation-Disclosures. $4,000
Amount required 10 complete. ......... 275,O0O
Amount required in 1885. ..-.......... 10000
MISSISSIPPI, BELOW ST. PAUL.
Expended Observation-Disclosures. e. 81 600, 900
(Ths amount being expended between ST. Paul
and the Des Moines rapids, the Minnesota por-
ton Of the stream receiving its due share OF at
tention.)
From this 1t Will appear that Minnesota has
q deep interest in the prosecution Of these
works.
From the official reports 1t would appear
that there is commerce upon the streams TO
Justify the expenditures asked.
on THE ST. cRoIx IL 1888
there were three steamboats, and twenty-five
barges engaged exclusively in the freight and
Passenger business during season OF 1888.
The steamboats, made one hundred and
forty-on round trips between Taylors Falls
and Saltwater, seve nty-hye between Marine
and ST. Paul, and twenty between Fran
coma and ST. Paul. The steamboats, are re-
ported 10 have carried as a. follows:
Passengers, number $500
Miscellaneous freight, pounds. $500 OOJ
Lumber, feet b. M.................. 10, 800 900
Live stock, head. ....... ........... $40
Rafting poles, number.............. $4,000
wood cords. ..............-....... u coo
Lath, number. Observation-Disclosures. 5000
Shingles number. ................... I'd $4,000
Coal, tons. Observation-Disclosures. 100
There we're ffty-one steamboats, engaged
In the towing OF logs aud lumber during the
season
There were l07, 225, $40 feet, b. NJ, of logs
towed out Of the St. Croix river during 1883;
$4,000, 900 feet of logs, valued at 81, 565, 900,
, we've passed through the st. Croix boom.
Manufactured;
Lumber, l67, sos 600 feet. b. NJ, at
xlS. 80 per NJ. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS. 1907, 105
Shingles. '9,S54,0O0 pieces, at $3.50
per M........ ............-...... i9s.3S5
Lath, f5,OIs,oOO, AZ 81 per M....... 0O,i46
Piekets, 6la,O00, AZ sic so per NJ. 1,6S7
Total value. ......................s s., ss8, ssa
CHIPPEWA RIVER. 1888.
2Go. Oe4, 900 feet, II. NJ, lumber,
AZ SIS per NJ. foot. Ss,ose.ai3 90
/ s264S, 500 laths, at s. per NJ. i65,2S7 %
! 100, $4,000 shingles, a. 81. 50 per
Observation-Disclosures. e5&sia 20
1,4919@S pickets, az SIS per NJ. 80 469 Is
1000 railroad ties, AZ 40 cents
each. 500 90
$4,000, 900 feet II. NJ, logs. Beef
Slough, st Si0 per N. fcgt.. $500 600 90
Total. ..................... $a,oSs.sst IS
Steamboats, commenced running April IS,
I 1883, aud ceased running Nov. . 1888.
: Three steamboats, were engaged in the
/ freight and passenger business. Freight
carried, l,592 tons. The steam
boats that piled regularly between
Reads Landing and Dunyille report 1850
passengers carried. The other two boats
made only niue trims in all, and do not give
. the number OF passengers carried The
amount received Tor freight and passengers
is given at 1856.
THE MISSISSIPPI ABOVE ST. ANTHONY FALLS.
The logs run during 1883 between Mime
apols aud s.. Cloud amounted to 90,000 600
feet, valued at $500, 600.
The logs run on the river above St Cloud
amounted to $4,000, GOO feet, valued at
S2,Sl0,O00.
STEAMBOAT NAVIGATION, 1889, BETWEEN AIT
KIN AND GRAND RAPIDS, MINNESOTA.
There were two steam boats, with their
bssges, engaged in the carrying tE1de during
isss. Navigation opened April IS and
closed November Ia. The steamboats, made
twenty-one round taps aud carried freight
amounting 20 a,SO0. coo pounds. Character
of freight; GroecriSs, feed, machinery, tools,
supplies, etc. The number Of passengers
carried Is stated at lI00
There are 10 means hy which the amount
o. tonnage moved on the Mississippi below
s.. Paul can Ia aSeertafnrsls bf,t AZ i safe II