New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-01-02

ospect Of dividends has been too remote OF the
new projects which. year ago. showed promise of
realization, some have been abandoned altogether;
some have remained I'm siau quo, after desperate but
unavailng efforts to mako the necessary financial
raugcmcnts, very fcw have made any progress.
The new lines which any tracklaying has been
done during the year only three in number. On
the Wlnona and Southwestern Railway, In Minnesota,
twenty miles Of track hayc been laid The Duluth.
Red Wing and Southern & fough the Duluth. Sioux
City and Southwestern Construction Company has laid
and opened for traIic twenty-five miles, from Red
Wing TO Zumbrota MINI. The Duluth and Winnipeg
has built thirty miles Of road from Duluth westward
The Eastern RAILWAY OF Minnesota IS the name Of
a corporation which IS tributary to and part Of the
st. Paul, Minneapolis and Manitoba system. II has
built ninety miles of road, from IIinckley MIMI TO
Superior; and this constitutes the longest piece of
individual construction achieved In the Northwest
this year. AS In 1887, the work done by the ST. Paul,
Minneapolis and Manitoba has been very much larger
than that done by any other Northwestern line. The
sudden development OF this com any's lines from
poor helpless piece Of track few hundred miles In
length into magnificent and extensive system has
been the picturesque incident In the whole history
Of recent American railroading At the annual meet
ing in July the financial statement of The president
very strong, while the work that has been done
this year the improvement of the property NEARLY
400 miles Of track having been, in addition TO the new
construction, rclad with heavy sevcny-fve pound
stecU mas Decn InOsi tACcplOndi iHnB III NcstcTn
railroad management. The new lines built by the
company this year follows:
wimar TO Sioux Falls. 1861
WatertOwn TO Huron O9.sA
Cando Branch 5J.21
Crookston eastward, . . "a CT
Smccr line. Montana o.3S
Great Falls to Junction. 100
Briclyard spur, Great Falls. -
Total miles. 3o4.O3
This does not include the nincty-oight miles Of East
ern Minnesota or "a miles of Montana Central
srciion
The Montana Central IS part Of tho Manitoba sys
tenn. and last gear tut from Great Falls Mont. TO
Helena TO complete the connections of the Montana
extension of the Manitoba Railway proper This
year 1t has completed the great Wickes tunnel and
opened line seventy-cne miles in length from He
lena to Bath This last named line is remarkable
piece of mountain railroad engineering
Next 10 tho Manitoba the company which has
done the most work during the year has been the
Northern Pacific. The great work of this company
lhe construction of the Cascade Branch)
Melted last year In 1883 the con- -any has pre-
simably had ifs attention TOO much occupied and its
hands so much hampcred by the financial changes
I'm the dlIcctorate with the return Of Henry Willard,
and with the legal complications growing out of the
Joint lease of the Oregon Railway and Navigation
Companys properties. that it has not felt at liberty
! TO push new construction with great vgor. Never
thecss. good deal has been done. The agreement
with tbc Government Of the Province OF Manitoba has
added the Red River Valley roaI - its lines under
operati,u has given IT access TO Winnipeg and the
Canadian Northwest and will presumably entail the