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Title: Saint Paul and the Northern Pacific Railway : grand opening, September 1883
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Northern Pacific Railroad Company
Subjects: Northern Pacific Railroad Company
Publisher: St. Paul : Brown & Treacy, Printers
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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ntial buildings for their general offices. Thelocal improvements made in St. Paul during the last year by the rail-roads aggregate $830,000. Most important, however, with a view tothe future of the city, is the purchase of large tracts of land, aggrega-ting about four hundred acres, in the northern part of St. Paul, by theNorthern Pacific road for its terminal passenger and freight depots,shops, cattle yards, etc., and to afford transfer facilities with its easternconnections on a scale co-extensive with the anticipated magnitude oftranscontinental traffic. The new stock yards are intended to accom-modate the cattle trade with Montana, which promises to make St.Paul one of the chief cattle markets of the Union. The importanceof St. Paul as a railroad center may be partly measured by the follow-ing business statistics of the Union Depot: Number of passengertrains arriving and departing daily, 152; number of pieces of baggagehandled per day, 3,500; estimated average number of passengers
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arriving and departing daily, 14,000. Seventeen tons of United Statesmail are handled daily from incoming and outgoing trains, and 200freight cars per day are transferred in the yards of the Union Depot.But the railroad transfer business of St. Paul is chiefly done at thetransfer station half way between St. Paul and Minneapolis, wherenearly all the east and west lines connect for that purpose. Thefreight transferred here for the last fiscal year amounts to 570,000 tons. While dwelling upon the network of railways which intersect eachother at St. Paul, the line of communication which nature has fur-nished, and which first gave the. city a local habitation and a name,must not be forgotten. Secondary in importance though river be torail, it first connected the people of St. Paul with the outside world>it remains the route for cheap transportation of bulky commodities,and it is destined to rise to greater influence in the future, when plansof improvement now contemplated or actually u

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