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route, the absence of the deep SHOWS which
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 capacious harbors on the
Pacific afforded by the inlets of Puget's
Sound, add the last link to the chain of geo:
graphical af6nities which connect theem
rum Of Pacific commerce in British Oregon
through the magnificent valleys Of the Sas.
katchewan and Red River, with the basiu Of
the Mississippi at St. Paul on one hand, 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 az 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 further
evidence of the growing recognition OF
this commercial and geographical fact, the
Hudson's Bay Company have this year for
warded overt three hundred packages ofgoods
from New York via St. Paul to their posts iii
the British Possessions-an important tes-
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
nGo'djng, one after auolhe1, the vast capac-
tics OF this region; a uew development more
Immediately impor Int .han all the rest has
arisen at the PacGc extremity Of the route,
already fixed by all physical conditions
which fixes it inevitably iu The interests of
political economy, and, by determining the
Tendencies Of em;3 alton, hasteus to an i'n-
mediate issue the solution of the great
Nolthen, Pacific Railway scheme, ofwhich
the Canada and Minnesota systems are links:
The gold discoveries on Fraser's river
will reproduce in British Oregon the ?he-.
,lo1nea:, Of the growth ofCaliioruia. Ihoi,-
s',.,e:s aye already fockinS :;rom the occupied
fields of the latter to the new theatre
opened ioy tie former: The prestige Of San
Francisco is about to be lost in the new
marvel on Puset's Sound, and the new
weight thus thrown into the scales will ;rre-
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 part
for Minnesota, and especially for 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
Puset's SQUAD will be discussed; and the
report Of Il committee on the subject read.
OF the benefits that would accrue to this
city from the establishment ofsuch route,
Il would be supeIauous to say anything now:
Ii would open career for St. Paul second
to that of no other city in the Mississippi
valley, and crown her tho commercial queen
of the Northwest PioaeerGD Democrat.