St. Cloud visiter [sic]. [volume] (St. Cloud, Stearns County, Minn.) 1857-1858, 1858-07-22


cucumber the track in the moister climates
of the South, the immense coal fields which
line the course of the Saskatchewan, all con-
firm the DEGREES of physical geography
The finest and most tcapacious harbors on the
Pacific afforded by the inlets Of Pugets
Sound, add the last link to the chain Of geo.
graphical afinities which connect theempo-
rum Of ofPaci6c commerce in British Oregon,
through the magnificent valleys o. the Sas.
Ekatchewan and Red River, with the basiuef
the Misissin at St. Paul on one hand, and and
perhaps atsome future day with thu basin Of
the St, Lawrence at Superior on the other.
At the recent investigation by the House
of Commons Committee, to which was re-
ferred the claims of the Hudson's Bay
Company for an extension Of their Charter
the whole tendency of the testimony was
to fix St. Paul as the natural outlet OF this
whole region. The six hundred carts now
here and on their way-which bring in the
first instalment of our annual trade with the
Red River-is proof Of this; and as a further
evidence of the growing recognition OF
this commercial and geographical fact, the
Hudson's Bay Company have this year for
varded overthree andred packagesof ofgoods
from New York via ST. Paul to thair posts in
the British Possessions:an important tcs-
timony extorted from the most reluctant OF
witnesses to the superiority Of this route.
Thus while the progress OF investigation
and the march Of events have been rapidly
uyco!d:ag, one aftey aoo.ae1, the vast capac-
ties Of this ,esion: Il new development more
Immediately impor: ut ioan all the rest has
arisen at the Pac6c ex;:smity Of the route,
already fixed by all physical conditions
which fixes it ineveiaby in The Interests Of
political economy, aud; by deielnini'g The
Tendencies of emf: alton, hasiens 10 an im-
mediate issue the solution Of lie great
No, ;herl Pacific Railway scheme, ofwhich
the CanaGa and Minnesota systems are links.
The gold discoveries on Fraser's river
s<ill =:e-proluce in British Oregon the ohe-
.lo,neaa Of the growth oc California. Tho"-
sands are already Aocking ;crom the occupied
fields of the latter to the new theatre
opened oy the former. The prestige ofSan
francisco is about to be lost in the new
marvel on Puget's Sound, aid the new
weight thus thrown into the scales will IRE
vocably decide the preponderance Of the
Northern route over the combined CONNER
cial influence of San Francisco, St.Louis,
Memphis and New Orleans
These events mark Out an important par
for Minnesota, and especially 70, St. Paul.
An empire lays at their feet. 1t remains
but to go in and take possession. An ad-
journed meeting is to be held on Wednes-
day evening, in Concert Hall, when the sub
ject of an emigrant route from St. Paul to
Puget's Sound will be discussed, and the
report OF committee Oh the subject read.
OF the benefits that would accrue to this
city from the establishment ofsuch route,
It would be superduous tc say anything now:
Ii would open career for St. Paul second
to that of 40 otne, city in the Mississippi
valley, and clowp 'er the commercial queen
of the Northwest Pioaeer&D Democrat.