The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1899-10-31


t1fty-ton scale. and heavy scales are now
being put IN at other stations,
important improvements in the water
Junction, Leavenworth. Wilson Creek,
MM dd,s ", Wayzata, Fisher. Troy, Coram,
Milaca and Sultan. Numerous other i'm
provements in water stations have been
made with view to equipping the entire
Many. additional stock yards have been
built along the line of the road during
the year to handle increasing stock ship
ments, being a continuation of the work
previous years
On main lines, standard passing tracks
5000 feet long have been laid this year,
or old tracks have been heightened to
standard. and many additional tracks for
local industries have been built, the total
net increase In side track mileage being
"A. Al miles.
During the year the relaying of twenty
nine miles of track between PALERMO
and Williston with seventy five-pound
steel rails in place Of sixty-pound, and Of
rails with seventy-five-pound steel rails
pleted ~ N '
Other relaying was authorized, and is
In progress at the close Of the year. but
not completed.
The sixty-pound rail removed in these
cases Is used to replace lighter iron and
pound rail in the construction of passing,
yard and other tracks.
Additions to the Eastern Railway Of
minnesota were as follows:
Superior and Nickerson, referred to in
last years report, has been completed.
There has also been relafd 1917 miles be-
tween Cloquet and Deer River with
seventy f1ve-pound steel in place of sixty
pound The relaying of 556 miles with
seventy-seven and one-half-pound rail in
place Of lighter rail was authorized early
In the season. The work, though well
under way, was not entirely completed
at tn the close of the year:
of the embankments between Hinckley
and Nfckerson, S0.7 miles, is about COM
pleted, and that portion of the line is
also receiving full gravel ballast.
Many miles of bitches have been put In
on the line between Cloquet and Deer
river for the purpose of draining swamps
and improving the roadbed. The work al
ready done is very satisfactory This
completed by the close of the year ending
June 80, 1900
caon n g gs haye D sea built 1sM at
section house at Nickerson.
A new electrical power house, 57x77,
and boiler and engine house. Skis, have
been built to properly handle the bust
ness Of the companys elevators at West
Superior.
The double track has been extended for
two and one-half miles south from Saun-
ders, Station, making the total double
track eight and one-half miles from West
Superior south
The net increase in side track mileage
during the year. not including mileage
or operated for the first year, was A58
miles.
ADDITIONS TO MONTANA CENTRAL.
So much new work has been done on
this line during the past few years that
but little was requil ed this year beyond
the filling of some wooden trestles, which
will be completed the coming fall.
Heavy riprapping and slope walls have
been placed along the Boulder river near
Bernice and on the Missouri river rear
high water. Banks have been widened
and restored to grade between Cascade
and Craig. and track ballasted.
Tracks have been relaid as follows:
pound steel, between Hardy and Wolf
Creek, and east of Johns, 2348 miles.
With 771z-pound steel In place of Is
pound steel, between Clancy and Portal
The relaying of 1883 miles with 77h-
pound steel and Sd miles with 75-pound
steel was authorized during the year, but
was not entirely completed on June So
There was a net increase Of 4,052 miles
in mileage of side tracks during the year.
There were built during the year 502T
miles Of fencing on right of way and
1880 feet of steel bridges. large num-
Der of bridges were filled in, the lineal
feet of such work being 21,466. Water
ways were provided for filled bridges by
putting in pipe, masonry and brick Gull
verts
TRAFFIC AND RATES.
During the year the amount of wheat
carried increased about 10000 900 bushels,
practically all East bound or 100000 tons
as compared with the previous year. The
was 100000 tons; there was, therefore,
an increase during the year in tonnage
hauled other than wheat of 1,433, 600 tons.
A large portion Of this W, was short haul
proved business conditions in the coun-
try. served by this company.
This accounts for the seemingly small
reduction in the average revenue per ton
per mile of 16 mills or LIZ per cent
In the report for last year it was esti-
mated that the reduction in wheat rates
line between Foston and Duluth would
reduce the company's revenue by abcut
$l,0000 The years statistics show re-
duction in the average revenue rece we'd
cents, equivalent to about $375,000.
The earnings from passenger trains
show an s4s7 &c curing ~ the year of II
from mails and {hiss
sources, including sleeping cars, ETC.,
SAL, 9SO.32. There is probably no bstter IL
lustration. of the growth of the Western
country than the increase in mail earn
ings. The United States postoffice de-
partment pays for TRANSPORTATION of
as ascertatned by an Official we, Ching
once every four years. The mails carried
west of the Minnesota-North Dakota
state Line were we ghed during the spring
Of hociC IF
weights then ascertained began to accrue
from July 1, is g. Therefore, practically
the entire increase of $229, 0SS2S or 51.04
per cent, in mail earnings comes from
the increase in mail matter carried to
and from the Pacific coast. 1t should
also be remembered that as the weight Of
mail increases thte rate of pay per pound
dec: eases, and in consequence the weight
actually transported is probably Is per
cent more than it was four years ago.
The average revenue received per pas
Senger mile has decreased from 2.2Z2 hts
to 220S cents
The tons one mile have increased II IS
per cent, the car miles ga per cent and
the freight train mileage 4,S4 per cent, in
creasing the average load of 316 tons per
train nearly twenty tons (6.29 per cent? to
1856 172 tons.
In last years report reference was
provements on the line, covering reduc-
lions in grade and curvature and the
general condition of the roadbed which,
with better methods in conducting trans
portation, is shown in the increased aver
age load and revenue per train mile.
During the period covered by the re-
port, thorough examinations and SURVEYS
have been made over important portions
Of the line. PARTICULARLY b tween Hav; e
and the Pacific coast and on the Mont ma
Central, which show that existing grad 8
can be greatly reduced and the line inn
proved to an extent which will increase
the train load, and give the entire trans
continental line lower grades than can
be had over any other route.
A large part Of this work is now under
way and will be completed during the