The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1868-01-02

-hsta.1 sss~ae3sta .hhat s-ha1sspEo iHl u
tho future. While politically tho
British Possessions are che property Of
another power, commercially they are
sspurAEif 4e elpoe4 toAak ths,1 40;
any saackis51s ess1 snd % 81.
pol lnd whethS{ We soenitler their TX
tent :thak natup o. sbilines, sor ths
jtrAeA - IN. sstinsd o maintain.
tFrd6 tie Britnh line % tie sourosS Of
the Mackenzie, stretches magnificent
wheat country thousand miles in
breadth; much Of it open prairie and
ready for the plow. r.s.,-
Lake Superior projects into the 3iar
Ne.th: Wsst several hundred milha farth.
OF than any othsr nayigablo, water, and
at iii head there 4ill b seen 1 city ri;
valiug any Of those which u'the ages
gone By had enjoyed the commerce Of
the East before II. West and northwest
of it, tho mighty area We have described,
iusxhaustible il ito minerals and its .p-
rieultural product eness, will pour its
unimagined wealth Of exchange into
and through it::'sWith 6fty bushels Of
wheat to tie acre, u We find il on tho
Saskatchewan, xh.t may not be predict.
ed Of ths'point which, BY geographical
neoessity, & to handle the products Of 4
region 50 vaast! ? Here will be the largest
grain elevators ever seen, and that trade
which 'has built 50 many fonrishing
cities viii build another whore nature
has made / depot for the most ;exten.
sive grain.growing country on the globe.
In tho Bay Of Superior. at the mouth
Of thu, Isl. Louis, We have the. largest
harbor or the 9 Lake, lhnd,iocked and
perfectly sheltered: IT now admits lake
boats Of the = heaviest tunnage, and to
what extent il may be .rti6eially i'm.
proved VI DO not know but an sppro-
priation fof this purpose vas made by
tho kst Congress. 4 city, on the point
of land formed by tho St: Louis and
the 'NemS6i, has ID elevation Of thirty.
four feet, andswill possess nearly forty
miles Of w.ter-ftoataee, where vessels
may discharge their fteights on al the
four sides of 1 square. The distance to
st: Paul, the center Of North W estern
railrays, Is only hundred and thirty.
I've miles, while from Chicago it is over
three hundred md ,fifty; and when you
ne At Chicago you are no nearer to
Europe OF the Atlantic ports than when
It Superior. Various railroads IRE pro.
.jeeted, or in course Of construction, to
connect tho Upper Mississippi With the
head Of the lakes, and the work on the
st. Paul end Of the St. Paul aud
Superior rad is rapidly progressing.
= In view Of tho facts that, We are IN
essentially pioneer people, that We plant
and build wherever nature permits, and
especially where she invites, and that
ne ore. annually REINFORCED by an in
creasing proportion Of immigrants from
the northern Attitudes Of Europe pecul.
iarly fitted fol. tie settlement Of the
Northwest, it isfair 70 presume that
this generation VII see completed what
We have only family sketched-the
commerce Of Asia and Europe passing
over . grand highway connecting tho
Atlantic and Pacific, Lake Superior and
PugePs Sound, TIE head-watersii Of the
Mississippi, the z Missouri, and the
Columbis, With cities at either ter
minus, whose importance can only be
measured BY that Of the trade they will