The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1903-08-06
RAILROAD NOTES.

The Des Moines, Iowa Falls &
Northern road will be opened for traf-
fic about the middle of the month.
The railroads of the United States
have already given orders to the. var1-
Gus plants in this country for 100000
tons of steel rails to be delivered in
1904. This is over third of the
total capacity of all the steel rail mills.
Independent of the steel rails which
will be imported, the railroads will use
this year SS2,600,000 worth Of rails.
The orders given for rails to be deliv-
cred in 1908 amounted to $95,200,00O.
A party of eight ST. Paul and Min
neapolis land men left yesterday for
Oklahoma and Indian territory over
the Rock Island, the guest of that COM
pany. Among those in the party were
H. H. Hubert, William Munger and
r. D. Wall. District Passenger Agent
F. D. Lyons, of Minneapolis, accom-
panied the party on it's trip. The land
men will return in ten days.
The Minneapolis & ST. Louis antici-
pates a large delegation of G. A. r.
men to travel in it's special train, which
will leave for San Francisco Monday.
The train will be made up of four
tourist cars, two standard sleepers and
a chair car About 800 Minnesota vet
Grams will attend the annual encamp-
ment at San Francisco, and large
delegation will go by way of the Min
neapolis e. st. Louis.
Contracts have been-let by the Pitts
burg end of the Wabasha, which is
known as the Pittsburg, Carnegie &
Western railroad, to the George A.
Fuller company for new station, to
be erected at Pittsburg, to cost $780,
000 The building is to be of steel con-
struction, with terra Gotta, granite and
brick finish and will be eight stories
high.
The Northern Pacific's coast train
was run in two sections last night, each
section comprising twelve cars. There
were five sleepers attached to each of
the trains. A large number of the
travellers were en- route to Yellowstone.
There was also a large delegation of
homeseekers on board the trains.
Transcontihental lines have, agreed
on a settlement of their differences
that makes practicable the revision of
tourist rates. A meeting has been
called, to be held in st. Paul on Aug.
10, at which the revision of the sheets
which has been in progress for some
time will be completed and the results
proclaimed. -
James R., Dutton, who has been in
the employ 1.-The Michigan Central for
fifty years. has resigned his position
as purchasing agent of that road. He
is to be succeeded by S. 9G. Wight, who
has been his assistant.
The Minneapolis Est Louis yester-
day ran a special train from ST. Paul
and Minneap polls to Waterloo, Iowa, on
account of the annual meeting of the
Young Peoples Alliance of the Evan
gelical association.
The fiscal year of, the Pullman COM
pany closed last Friday. Officials of
the company say the financial showing
will be on a par with that made in
1902, when $2,015, zoo was added to the
surplus. -. ..,4.o
The new terminal station to be built
at Washington by the seven roads en-
tering the city, and wEfehs represent
Al 900 miles, efsstraek wiHyssoon be I'M
der construction. The whole work will
cost about $14,000,000.
The Grand Trunk Pacific road will
extend from coast to coast. and, with
the new main line, new branch lines
and the old Grand Trunk and its prop
erty lines, will have a total mileage OF
9,432.
The Great Northern will today run
an excursion from Red Lake Falls to
Thief River Falls on account of the
Red Lake county fair
President Burt, Of the Union Pacific,
denies that he is to be succeeded as
head of the Union Pacific by Gov.
Odell, of New York.