Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1908-01-02
R RAILROAD [ l|. NOTES i
Change In Sleeper and Diner Scr.
Vice on Two Trains. MIL
waukss Steel.

vice on Two Trans. lHIl'
waukss Steel.
After January lst, the sleeping
cars aud diners on N. P. trains Nos.
and east of Billings will be dis
continued till business gets heavier
on those trains. The trains them
selves will..not be discontinued but
run as.. usual with coaches, baggage
and express cars to connect with the
Burlington trains at Billings and do
the local station work az heretofore
or the greater::part.-of IL between st.
Paul and the coast.
The Northern Pacific is expecting
to receive at this point, over 500 cars
of steel rails for the Milwaukee road,
and in order to make the N. P.
freight cas- pay part of the cost of
their transportation to the coast, the
steel is being transferred ..from The
foreign cars in (which 1t is received
here and reloaded on the Northern
Pacific cars which will carry the rails
to destination in Montana. The cars
will then be sent on to the coast,
probably to haul back, lumber. 1t is
cheaper to unload the rails and re-
load, than to haul them in foreipn
cars and return the empty cars. An
additional force of men reached here
for the work of unloading. The
rails come from Illinois and are the
best grade of steel rail for the coast
extension of the Milwaukee road.
Over 100 men are engaged at the
work. The wages are notsEigll but
better than doing nothing; and 80 q
good crew is to be had. The work
pays Is cents an hour.
Surveyors are still RAINING prelim-
mary surveys in the eastern part of
the city for the Midland road
Fargo Call: While Fargo and
Moorhead have their troubles in the
matter OF securing an adequate sup
ply of pure water for general use. the
N. P. is. experiencing even, greater
difficulty in the RED River valley to
secure suitable supply of usable
water for the use Of locomotives.
Dnrinp the past several years some
thing like $4,000, 900 has been ex-
pended by the company and the
problem has not been solved.
In 1906, to provide aswater supply
fol. engines along the road, Contract
or Hugh Hempstead hgd AZ teams
with. scrapers and plows and IS men
whose wages amounted to an average
OF s45 per month Ger. man with
board, s75 per month for man and
team and all expenses. one steam
shovel with l6 men, whose wages
amounted to FROM s75 to $50 per
month, with overtime for a month
who dug ditch and laid pipe 52ss
feet at Sterling N. d. The total cost
to tine railroad company was about
q, 900, 600 and s11,0OO worth of stone
for riprapping . dam and the va
ter wasn't worth dam and the
whole project had to be abandoned.
Tue water is milky wnitc> With al:
kali.
Next came the Dilworth PROPOSE
tion, which was COMPLETED q couple
Of months ago at q cost estimated TO-
be q, 100, 600. The water at Dilworth
is so unsuitable that the engines
have been coming to Fargo for some
time for water The water at Dill
worth is not as bad asat Sterling,
but the supply is said to be .insutti-
cient. OF the I wo standpfpes erected
at Dilworth. only one works, the,
other being put out Of business oW- !
inp to the water having lowered
since the construction Of the 81 lr-
pipe. Asrailroad man I'M posis Jon
TO know stated a few days ago that:
Ia another year there will net, be
enough. water TO meet the demand, 81 's! J
unless anothet supply is secured. a !.
al the present time at iyadena,
Minn the N. r, secures its supply
from the city water Rork -. .ss.. n n,
" AZ ltated sonnet ago the n J. !.
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