The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1869-08-05
THE RELATION OF MINNESOTA TO
THE NORTHERN PACIFIC. :

THE RELATION OF AdINNEsOTA TO |
n THE NORTHERN PACIFIC. Il
est. Cloud lson tho Route"
From tAs Bos,on Journal.
TIN xolrHIRN PACIFIC.
We learn with great satisfaction that
a large party from Philadelphia and
Boston, Of eminent railroad men, visit
ed St. Paul and"tho westerly shores Of
Lake Superior last fall, aud secured
tho control Of the railway from st. Paul
to the Lake, a distance Of ono hundred
and fifty miles, one-fourth Of which is
already graded. In the hands Of such
gentlemen We may expect its compile
ton early in the coming year. From
St. Paul to St. Cloud and the Sank
Rapids on the Upper Mississippi, dis
tanoe Of eighty.6ve miles, railway is
already finished, and emigrants are fill
ing the valley and opening it's rich
wheat fields. California is now the
first wheat State in the Union, produc.
ing about twenty millions Of bushels,
and having a surplus Of sixteen millions
for expectation, but Minnesota ranks
next, and the district around St. Paul
must this year furnish a surplus Of at
least six millions Of bushels.* Five
millions and half bushels have been
delivered in two years at Winons, on
the Mississippi 81. Cloud is on the
route Of the North Pacific, and from
tho valleys Of the Red River and to
the Upper Missouri, the Assiuiboiue
and tho Saskatchewan the country is
adapted to wheat. On the completion
of the line from St.. Paul to Lake Su-
perior, to be reached either at Duluth,
Superior City or Fond du Lac, two
hundred and thirty.6ve miles Of the
North Pacific will have been finished
under local charters from the lake to
St. Cloud, and but one hundred and
twenty miles more will remain to reach
the Red River Of the North, navigable
to Lake Winnipeg, and this. line will
probably be pushed forward next year,
as the farmers Of Minnesota have realiz.
ed large sums from the sale Of theii
wheat during the past two years, and
have money on hand after paying thei1
mortgages. At Red River the lint
will connect with steam navigation t
Lake Winnepeg, and by few lock-
that navigation may be extended ~
tho Assiniboine and Saskatchewan ant
down to Hudson Bay, thus openin.
lake and river routes of at least fiftee,
hundred miles to commerce. One
sixth of the North Pacific will thus b
put in operation. 49,. -:
THE ROUTE or EMIGRATION.
Emigrants from New England b
tho Ogdeusburg route will either tax
propellers on the St. Lawrence or rur
by the Grand Trunk from Prescott
Colliugwood, and thence taking prope
Ter will run through Huron and 81
perior to tn, new railway, and by thi
cheap and expeditions route reach tn
new wheat fields.
THE LUMBER TRADE.
\ In addition to the iron Of Marquette
there ale reported to be ore beds b.
: tween Lake Superior and St. Paul, an
large supplies Of lumber, which are no
saved on the St. Croix, and foate
3 down to st.; Paul, which will give loo
freight 70 the railway, while its remov
al will open the country to settlement
As we move westward from the LAX
the isothermal line tends to the north
and the summit level ON the routes I
the Pacific is much below those on th
Union and Central routes. On the vi
: per waters of the Saskatchewan az
Peace river, the elk and buffalo dro
their calves, the spring opens in Apr
and cattle may winter in open air, an
here, between the 49th and Goth d.
grees Of latitude, is belt of countr
nearly eight hundred miles in Width
and twice that in length, whose sol
> climate, natural pastures and forest
are altogether superior to those of Ne,
Epgland-a country destined at; SON
. future day to maintain population tn
or three times as large as that no
existing it the United States, and whic
even then will be less populous tia
Massachusetts. Here j. room for Fl
ture growth and expansion, which mu'
eventually be reached by the railwa!
ST. CLOUD, TIE TRUE BASE OF THE MORT
ZEN PACIFIC.
st. Paul or St. Cloud is the tru
point of departure for the North Pacif
line from these points continuous lint
Of rails run to Chicago and St, Loui
which give winter and summer co,
nection with the east when the LAX
closes, and southern and southeaster
outlets for the minerals OF the Lake.
In summer the heavy freight an
emigrant passengers acd summer tou
lists will take the Lake, while the bu
mess men and southeastern travvle1
will take the existing railways. I
winter tie routes to the east will
, these railways only, while wheat vi
+ accumulate in the g1anaries on II
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