St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-09-11
SALTWATER NEWS.
A Great Dam to Be Constructed
Aboye.TayIOp'S Fails.

Although there may arise obst acles in the
form of Isaac Staples claim in regard to in
reference with the Taylor's Falls water
power, yet the ST. Croix Dam ana Boom COM
pany viii next week begin work preliminary
to the construction of their great dam
across the river, ut a point twelve miles above
Taylor's Falls. There will De required for
the work three steam pile drivers and a cut
ting-off machine, for cutting the tips OF pill
ing under water aridsall that smachinery has
been ordered and will be on the ground
shortly. The work will require the employ
ment until completed OF 10 men, ana
large number of teams. and the dam COM
pie ted will cost, according to Manager Will.
lam Sauutry, 500, 900. 1t will be built OF
timber, rock and gravel, the timber portion
across the river being 614 feet in length,
wenty two feet high above low water,
mark. and with wings 1000 feet in length.
The flowage will extend back some ten miles,
but SURVEYS. which will be made at once,
will determine the exact area included:
President Sam McCluer, OF the Dam ana
Boom company, says that the company has
already bought great deal of the land that
will necessarily be covered by the back
water, while owners of other tracts refuse TO
sell, and still others have no titles. In such
cases condemnation proceedings will be had.
The object of the dam company is to catch
and hold logs above the falls, SO as to pre-
vent q Jam i'll the river and at the boom
here, and to supply logs TO the st. Crolx
Boom corporation as fast and in such guam
titles as the latter can sort and dispose Of
them for the owners. Incidental to
the holding of the logs above the
falls will be the prevention of any
more log jams or the obstruction by logs Of
the naYigable channel Of the st. Croix river.
The east END of the dam will be at Nevers'
farm, and on the west side at a point where
was laid out, thirty years ago, the village of
Amador, which, however never material
lied. William Sauntry is manager of the
dam company, and the work, which it is
keep him on the ground great part of the
time.
o. H. Short Yale classmate Of e. W.
Durant Jr, and resident of New York
CITY, came West last fail ex pressly to winter
in. one of Durant d Wheelers lumber camps
near Drummond i'll order, as he hoped, to
benefit his health, which was very low. He
has remained steadily at the camp until this
week. and will to-day return TO New York
robust man.
Officials of the Omaha and Milwaukee
Railroad companies arrived together yester-
day in n special ear to look over the local in
terests of their respective companies. The
Milwaukee men decided that the mile or so
of their trestle extending from the depot to
point below the Hersey e. Bean yards, hay-
ing now been in use for seven years, must
either be entirely rebuilt or filled in with
earth.
Chief of Police Hubbard, of Chicago,
wrote Chief Shortall day or two since to ar
rest Hugo Eiehstadt wanted in Chicago for
larceny, and supposed to have gone TO Still
water Eichstadt was proprietor of the Chi
cago hotel in saltwater year ago, and after
domestic trouble left and has not been seen
here till last night, when he came from La
Crosse, and was arrested.