St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-03-04
NORTHWESTERN VISITORS.

T. K. Yerxa, proprietor of the leading
wholesale and retail general merchandise
establishment in the Northwest, located at
Fargo, was in the city yesterday. He said
a dull winter had been passed, but the
farmers had come out all right. and that the
prospects for busy summer were bright.
Fargo isn't building much at present, but it
will probably pick up when spring opens.
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Hon. II. Stevenson of Crookston. Min
nesota senator, was lounging in the corridor
of the Merchants yesterday. His face wore
a calm, settled expression, and he claimed
that the northern part of Minnesota had as
yet felt no political commissions, but he ex-
pected some warm times by and by.
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A. A. White, one of the original boomers
of Northern Minnesota, with headquarters
at Moorhead, was at the Merchants yester-
day, accompanied by his wife. He says the
people of MOorhead are looking for railroads
and a boom before the year is over. Just
at present real estate is .quiet. but in other
respects the town is doing quite well.
So
r. S. Adams. a leading banker of Lis
bon. OAK, is at the Merchants. He has
great confidence in the future prosperity of
the capital city of Ransom county, and
says it is bound to be boomer. Five rail-
roads are now pointed towards it and bust
ness is in good shape.
c. r. Thompkins. Dakota boomer, is at
the Merchants. Mr.. Thompkins came out
from New York last summer and estab-
lished large stock farm on the Cheyenne
river, and has gone about developing the
Importance of Dakota as a stock country.
which he has succeeded in doing to his sat
isfactiOn. He has plated town site be-
tween Lisbon and Glendale and named it
Harlem. He intends that it will be a
Northwestern center. Mr. Thompkins is
down here contracting Tor lumber with
which to build twenty-five tenement houses
in Lisbon and several buildings in Harlem.
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Hugh Sutherland and T. B. Ross of Win
nipeg were at the Ryan Yesterday. Suther-
land is president of the Hudson's Bay rail-
road and Is bound for England to complete
arrangements for the construction of the
building for the Hudson's Bay railroad. for
which the contract has been let. The road,
which is TO be built by the Canadian gov
eminent, will be 240 miles long, and will
connect the waters of Lake Winnipeg with
HudsOn's bay. A line of steamers will be
put on the line between the terminal point
Hudson's bay and Liverpool. which will
complete a through line. making the route
400 miles shorter than via New York and
Montreal. 1t has been the general impress
sion that this route would be open but
about five months in the year in conse-
quence OF ice in the bay, but Mr.. Suther-
land affirms that it will be open the entire
year.
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c. p. II. Bielenberg. Deer Lodge. Mont,
is stopping at the Ryan accompanied by his
daughter Miss Clara. Mr.. Bielenberg is a
leading stock raiser of the territory. He
pitched his tent in the territory in 1856 and
now ownes the largest ranch in that part of
the country. He has been spending few
days in the city and will return to Deer
Lodge this morning. He expects 10 ship
4.sOO head of cattle to this city and East
ern points in the spring.