, 1866-02-23
rHE NoRTHERn nonrr


Judging from our Eastern exchanges, no little
interest seems to be. felt in the Northern Pacific
Railroad. We of the Northwest will no. bo
benefited BY the construction Of the grsa,,esn-
trail line from Chicago to San FRANCHISE. .sriii.s
capital stands ready to take odvaDtags Of a rou,s
that is to enhance its interests. Adyertipg u
TINS subject, a New York paper says:
Our Pacific Railroads are peculiarlv i,-,.,--
70. 70 moneyed men. It is the purpose OF the Rr;.ss
lsh Oofernment 70 open a path 70 ~. p.ss
Ueean' Ihey mast see that their Atlantic 4 CO.
western, rich as IL is now, will beeornr a. !. -
.a.lAole ..S when its freight rains sre h1-Senss
49, 1 fsns o. China and the spices Of The occi-
~ uensAi hauons. England has long desi,sS
roaa 70 the Pacific, and her eneineers 49, -
ana again, endeavored to fnd A vr.S ,Sls' s.iue
Driush America The faVorite scbems bss b,SIsn -
70 70 continue the Grand Trunk Railwav ~ fstH.
superior, and thence by way of rivers ana IT,.
anu oraueh roads to Puget Sound. The diS-
oui'y o' thls plan lies in the climate For siv
S-T in tIe year, the route would not be use-
% LIi. accordingly British enterprise will nroh-
aoly be compelled reluctantly 10 absndopP ~.
PProJect OF British railroad If Sir Morton
~ anu ms friends have much money To snsnd
let them go to work and do for British Ansr;o.
and indeed for the British Empire, what it's own
engineers have failed to do"
The general line of the Northern ropts o.,
commended by Governor Stevens in his srnIoro-
tons from 1852 to '5l starts from 81 P,nI
'iiHnesota, to the Bois de Sioay, to Fort Union
mouth of the Yellowstone river, thence via
MIX river to Fort Benton; Fort Benton to en-
trance to tunnel, Cadotte's Pass down the gelI
Gate valley, via Clarke's Fork. to the snot.,.
plains down the Columbia river to VaDcon,..
TO Seattle, Puget Sound. We look foryvar; -
the day when this great project will immens.,,
cement U. the developing and growing interests of
Washington, Idaho and Montnna alike. The fol-
Io"lng paragraph is taken from captato NuI.
ian report it is particularly pertinent at the
present time when so much is being said for and
against the Northern line, and the distinct courso
oi the route is being pointed out and recom-
menued by practical engineers who have made
reconnaissance of the section of country through
which the road must eventually be built;
II the liue from st. Paul, NIipuesot. is,o be
sDuiIt, when 1t has reached tho plains of Fort
Deuloni u should hug the Missouri closely bv the
Dluh0 70 ITS north, and thence follow the general
f5iT. sIH ot the river to the Three Forks thence
IoHoW up the valley of the jefferson Fork. and
s'c5o tse main range of the Rocky mountains.
70 me Deer Lodge Valley and thence follow
heu Gate to the Hells Gate Ronde here cross
over to Clark's Fork via Jocko river, and follow
uown t1lS fork on its right bank to the lower
END OF Per dOreilie Lake; thence TO the ep6.
kane, aud thence to the mouth of Snake river
from thence down the Columbia to the month
OF Cowlltz whence a branch line can easily he
adjusted to Puget Sound This line, by the di-
rector herein given, would be /, ,9s4 miles long.
and say three hundred miles longer than the
route proposed by Governor Stevens but when
1t IS remembered that the route here propose
involves no tunnels; that it follows a continuous
line OF water-courses that it will never be OBJ
structed by snow, so calculated to lengtbeu the
time oil building, and to increase the difficulties
OF running it when built that it traverses a
region capable of settlement; that it taps all
the mining regions, where way travel is destined
to be built mp and, moreover, passes along the
naviga6le stretches CT the Missouri, Clark's
Fork and Columbia rivers, essential and econon-
zeal alds In the first construction of the road;
truly, it seems not too much to say THAT this line
may be regarded as subscribing more advantages
than any yet examined in the Rocky mountains,
north OF 420 of northern latitude. j"