The weekly pioneer and Democrat. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn. Territory) 1855-1865, 1863-10-02

made to the distant shores of the Missouri II.
er. 1t is with justifable pride that mere ho ~
how nobly they have performed all 'n'' Has
been required at their hands.
have the honor to be Captain,
Very respectfully, your o9t. pi -;
Col 10Th Reg. MINI Infantry.
Capt R. C. DIN, A. A. Gen. DIST. MINI.
Telegraplic, Railway, and Other
Nor.wesiern Matters.
From the Chicago Tribune, SCI ten Der %.
our readers will remember paragraph
in orr paper few days since, stating that
G. J. Bridges, ESq., managing director OF
the Grand Trunk Railway, and several
other gentlemen, prominent in Canadian
commercial enterprises and in Canadian
politics, were at St. Paul perfecting ar
rangements to build telegraph line from
that city to Fort Garry, and thence up the
valley of the Saskatchewan across the
Rocky Mountains to the Pacific. Some OF
the gentlemen referred to have returned,
and from them we learn that the early
completion of the line is placed beyond
any probable contingency Indeed, mat
ters have so far progressed that it is eX-
pected it will be all finished during the next
summer. Our readers are already in
formed that the Russian Government are
building line across Asia, down the val
ley Of the Amoor, and thence it is to run
to Behring's Straits, where it will meet the
line or lines aci Oss the American continent,
thus connecting the new and old word in
bonds which it is to be hoped will never
again be severed.
The building of this new lice will be y
source of much benefit to our own coun-
try as well as to Canada. The California
of the news between the Western and the
Eastern coasts of the continent. and be-
sides the Northern route is something like
q thousand miles the shorter, costing less
and therefore able to make better terms for
the Transmission of dispatches Another
fact connected with this subject indicates
anew and most important movement in
the development OF the American CONT
nent. 1t is the intention of the company
to promote and establish Gordon of settle
ments at short distances entirely across the
continent. Our readers will remember
that, with the exception of the one sur
veyed 10y Stevens for the Pacific railway,
this Northern route, from the capacities of
its soil and climate is the only one that
can sustain a prosper Gus population from
the Atlantic to the Pacific. Recent dis
covelies have proved beyond question
that large gold deposits exist upon the
headwaters of the Saskatchewan aud a
railway is already projected west from
Fort Garry. Perhaps in one and probably
in two decades at most we shall have a
direct line of Railway over this northern
route across the continent. The readers
of these columns know that north and
west of Lake Superior, lies what has been
appropriately called "the undevelOped
portion of the North American CONT
whose agricultural, mineral and CONNER
cial resources fit it to contain an immense
population, with all that can promote aud
sustain the highe st type of our Christian
civilization. Not many generations can
pass before it will become a vast and pow
erful empire in itself
The civilized world has long known that
the policy of the old Hudson Bay Com
pany was borrowed from Japan. They
always did all they possibly could to dis
courage settlement, and knowledge of
the climate and the resources of the cOun-
try they governed was carefully concealed
from the public eye. Recently the fran
chises of the old organization have passed
into the hands Of wiser and more ener-
getic company, who have adopted policy
in accordance with the more just and lib
eral views of the age. They will promote
the settlement of the country by all the
means in their power, and the line of tele.
graph now projected is the first fruit OF
their enlightened management.
In this connection it gives US pleasure
to add that arrangements have been per.
fected to push forward the Pacific Rail
way of Minnesota to meet the wants Of
this new development. 1t will probably
reach the British American line in the Vi.
cinity of Pembina, and thence be pushed
forward to the valley of the Saskatchewan
much sooner than our most sapguine
readers would dare to predict. 1t is
understood that the President of the com
pany, Mr.. Edmund Rice, has made ar
rangements with English capitalists to
furnish funds for the work as fast as they
shall be wanted to carry it forward with
reasonable dispatch. And right here the
deep interest which our city and the North.
west have in these movements, can be
readily seen and appreciated. The Quite,
for all the vast fertile country of which
we have spoken, and of this projected rail
way to the Pacific, must, from the nature
of things, he around the south end of Lake
Michigan. The country north of Lake Su
perior, for many hundreds of miles, is toe
mountainous, cold and inhospitable to allow
of connection between the Grand Tsunl
Railway of Canada and the great northern
road to the Pacific. Right here in Chicago
is where these great continental lines will
find their most southerly trend, and her
is the great central city of transfer and ex
change tor both seaboards OF the continent
Of their effect upon the prosperity and tn
destiny of our city, it we're useless here Il
speculate.