The Virginia enterprise., 1898-07-29

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For associate Justice. CHAS. l.. LEWIS.
For associate justice. e.. L. BROWN.
For associate justice. JOHN A. LOVELY
REDUCES HIULIGE COST.
AS a result of the many i'm
provements made by the Duluth
4 Iron Railroad company during
the past year, says the Herald,
the operating expenses of the
road have been reduced very
much. Up to this time the road
has shipped more ore from the
mines to Two Rarbors than it
did during the corresponding
time last season, and yet many
less men are being employed. as
the merchants and business men
generally of Two Harbors can
testify to their sorrow.
About eighteen train crews
are now employed on the road
while last year twenty six we're
necessary to handle less
amount of business. The reduc-
tion in grades at Biwabik and OH.
er points is responsible for this
saving. Next month the Stew
art River branch will be open for
business, and still further saw
inss in operation will result.
This new piece of road, which is
about twenty miles long and
which is said to have cost up
wards of $500, 600, will make it
possible for a single engine and
train crew to haul twice as many
cars from the Cloquet river to
Two Harbors, so great has been
the reduction in the grade.
When this piece of road is put in
operation several more train
crews will be laid off.
The reduction in grades has
also reduced the strain on the
rolling stock, and as cars and
engines are subjected to less tear
and wear. fewer men are requir-
ed ih the car repair shop at Two
Harbors. The new ore dock
built for the company last win
ter is a great Improvement on
the old ones, and has made the
loading of vessels easier and
cheaper, A much smaller force
of men on the docks has handled
a larger amount of ore there in
the same time than in previous
seasons.
While these improvements
have involved the expenditure of.
of large sums in and about Two
Harbors and at other points on
the system within the past few
months, the business men at Two
Harbors are beginning to realize
that the ultimate outcome will
be to reduce the working popu-
lation of that town, which, means
a loss Of many good paying Gus
toners.
The Duluth Mis- sabe & North
ern Railroad company has for
the past year been making large
expenditures in permanently i'm
proving its road bed and equip
ment, that its operating expen-
ses may be reduced. It has sup
piled itself with several hundred
new ore cars of a capacity 20 per
cent greater than the old ones,
and with a better road bed and
improved yard facilities it is able
to haul more of the new cars to a
train than it could of theEoI ones
q year ago. So, while therewas
little opportunity afforded for
reducing grades as on the Iron
Range, it has been possible to
handle larger trains and a great
er amount of ore with less
number of train crews and small
or consumption of fuel. All of
which means that the profits in
hauling ore from the mines to
Duluth and Two Harbors will be
much greater in 1898 than ID any
previous year in the history of
the roads. -.... ~. ~ .:s s. ! n It'll. ..
@170O FOR TRUNK ROAD EXTENSION.
On Saturday last at a meeting
of the board Of county commits
sioners, some interesting as well
as thoroughly disgusting. pro-
ceedlngs were enacted, certain
concessions and acts on the part