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MINNESOTA & MANITOBA RAILROAD

Under the land grant of 1857 a road was projected between St Paul and St Anthony Falls, and coh others had been projected at an earlier period This road was afterward extended to Breckenridge on Red river, and branches were built to St Cloud, and frous Falls and Crookston to the national boundary at St Vincent, and froh Dakota to the Great Falls in Montana Subordinate branches to various points in Northern Minnesota, Dakota and Montana were also built The roads froe were built with German capital

After the completion of the main lines a financial depression occurred, the bonds were sold at a low figure and subsequently passed into the hands of J J Hill and others The aggregate e of this road and its branches aion not surpassed on the continent The present terold and silver

The country tributary to the road can not fail to hways of coy and ability of its ers has made it equal to the immense demands upon it

STILLWATER, WHITE BEAR & ST PAUL RAILROAD

Under the grant of 1857, a road from Stillwater to St Paul was projected, the road to commence at Stillwater and to proceed via St

Paul and Minneapolis to the western boundary of the State The coislative action effected a change in the conditions of the grant allowing the west and northwest, as a result of which the road from Stillwater to St Paul was not built After ten years of inactivity upon this portion of the road, the Stillwater people deislature of 1867, legislation coinally devised At this session Hon John McKusick, not then a islature, but still an influentialpublic sentih the president, Hon Edmund Rice, either to build the road or to transfer the franchises to some responsible company ould build it Hon Henry A Jackislature, after conference with the president of the co the franchises froinal coanized forthwith, with the conditions that they at once proceed to build the road fro with the St Paul & Duluth at that point A section was placed in the bill locating the railroad lands near Kandiyohi lake

These lands were arant and were to inure to the new company at the completion of the road The bill was passed and approved by the governor The road was coislature of 1869 transferred 44,246 acres, or one-half of the Kandiyohi lands, to the St Paul, Stillwater & Taylor's Falls railroad

THE ST PAUL, STILLWATER & TAYLOR'S FALLS RAILROAD

Part of the lands originally granted to the Stillwater, White Bear & St Paul railroad were transferred by the legislature of 1869 to the St Paul, Stillwater & Taylor's Falls railroad The proceeds of the sale were to be applied to the construction of the above naeneral laws of the State and incorporated Sept 23, 1869 The route of the road defined in the articles of incorporation is between St Paul and Taylor's Falls by way of Stillwater, passing through or near Marine, with a branch road to Hudson, Wisconsin Length of main line from St Paul to Stillwater is seventeen and fifty-four one hundredths miles Hudson branch line from Stillwater junction to Lake St Croix, three and one-fourth

South Stillwater branch line from Stillwater to South Stillwater, three miles The first train by this line reached Stillwater from St

Paul Feb 9, 1872 The capital stock, 1,000,000, may be increased at pleasure The number of shares of capital stock is 10,000 of 100 each, limit of indebtedness, 1,500,000

That part of the road to be built from Stillwater to Taylor's Falls up to the present date has not been completed

THE WISCONSIN CENTRAL (BRANCH) RAILROAD

In 1884 the Wisconsin Central built a branch road fro into Rae over the St Croix river about fourto this road, is a fine piece of work on solid stone piers

The total length of the structure is 2,400 feet, there being ten spans, each 160 feet long, and a viaduct, 800 feet long, on the Wisconsin side

The track is 87 feet above loater e was about 197,000 It was daed by a cyclone in 1885 to the amount of 10,000

TAYLOR'S FALLS & LAKE SUPERIOR RAILROAD

The franchises and swarant of the Lake Superior & Mississippi railroad pertaining to the Taylor's Falls branch were in 1875, by legislative enactment, transferred to the Taylor's Falls & Lake Superior Company In 1879 these franchises and lands were transferred to the Minneapolis & St Louis Railroad Company In the fall of 1879 the St Paul & Duluth Co of 1880 the Minneapolis & St Louis Company built threein that distance as difficult and expensive work of its kind as had been done in the State, the grading beingthe face of the nearly perpendicular bluffs overlooking the river In the summer of 1880 they transferred their franchises and one-half their swarant to the St Paul & Duluth Company, by whom the road was completed from Centre City to the road already built at Taylor's Falls, Oct 29, 1880

CHICAGO, MILWAUKEE & ST PAUL RAILROAD--RIVER DIVISION

The river division of this road follows the west bank of the river froh all the river towns

Crossing the river at Hastings it passes through the towns of Newport, Cottage Grove and Denmark, and the cities of St Paul and Minneapolis, ters was built in 1869, by the Chicago & St Paul Railway Coranted to the Minnesota & Pacific Railroad Coee across the Mississippi at Hastings was constructed in 1878, and was the first iron railroad bridge in the State In respect to cost and workmanshi+p it ranked with the ith of the river bridge is 706 feet, and consists of an iron draw span 300 feet long, two fixed spans each of 150 feet in length, and a coth The cost of the structure was 200,000 In 1884 a branch line was extended frolas to Stillwater