Sioux City register. [volume] (Sioux City, Iowa) 1858-1871, 1867-04-13

The St. Louis Dispatch has very sensible
article on the Montana trade. That city
GU eLt by this time 10 know how to ompe,e
with Chicago for that trade in The winter
season. IL can only be brought into direc,
end paying competition With Chicago BY a
prompt complexion Of The Platte Country
Railroad to the Iowa line, there to ccnnec,
With the Council Bluffs aud St Joseph rail-
way, aud there with tie Northwestern aud
Sioux City and Pacific Railroads. The lat
ter road will be completed during the pre-
sent year, aud provided The other roads above
mentioned are completed within the same
time, St Louis will have direct railroad cu,n
nuts! atiUn more than half the dis,a, CO to
the mines, while the balance of the distance
can he accom- i>bed ~ steamboats, in The
summer, and by a good wagon r ad during
the remainder of the year. The article very
truthluIly says:
An old poet once sung: "W.s,ward tn,
star Of empire takes its way To-day the
truth of he song is a. plainly developed a,
VIII N the words were first written A few
years ago the Obi Was con-dared tie tar
Yves. of America Further wert he tide ct
EN-, ration like the rush Of many WATERS
Soon the tact became apparent that other
lands lay heSold bhi 8 broad state, and
stretched towards the great river of the west
the Mississippi, aud the TIDAL wave pushed
on. The r-sllrssness Of our people would
not permit them to stop long on that great
river. and soon like !ocusts thev pushed out
far upon the Plains toward the X, cky Noun.
tains. Still the watchwarl is ives ward =
The vast number of emigrants seek NJ y
western hone DIT s no, cinini>h the mum
bers, as they sweep Oh in the track marked
and bIazad toward the great Eorado Of the
emigran,'s hopes, the West In all ages Of
the world, and i. II cou, tries, tie word has
been westward. The line of mi grafton sets
resist!essly in that direction, aud as wave
overleaps wave, as the tide waters Of the
great ocean succeed and overlea, its pre-
ceeding swell, 50 will the reope SEX OCT a..
great West, and fulfill their Mission by build
ing up an empire ,eemng wi b energy ami
intelligence. We have now reached Il new
and important era in the gigantic progress
sive movement which has air a r. civilized
and developed so much Of this IN, gnifcen'
continent The great r o,hy Mountain dis
trict, which only few n r, years since was
known only as a "howli"g wi derness,' has
already assumed an Important Commercial
position. aud points t. one Of the most van.
able and attractive portions Of cur domain
and from resent indications is destined to
a more speedy AID pr Gtable development
than marked tie bis ry of any other section.
Neglect d aud dislajnyd heretofore en- &C
count Of is rnggod aspect the difficulties Of
access, and the presence of hostile Idian
tribes, the u'ig hty task of CONNIE cling prac
'ica'ly, earnestly AMI energ~ti"ally the ex-
traction OF the INT Ii treasures locked for
ages in its bosom seems to have tcea pre-
served for the pre- sent age Tw, years ago
the trade between s. Louis and Montana
was not sufficient TO lead two steambratS,
while last spring something like fifty steam
ers were engaged in it, and this spring there
are about the same number preparing t.
leave in the same direction. Indications
poin: 10 a very feavy trade in that quarter
and several rev boats have been bnil, during
the Water esnecia'Iv snted for the voyage