The Montana post., 1869-04-09
$1j. In 1867 its value per head W.
$3.50. The result is astounding.
THE COUNTRY To DE DEVELOPED

$50. The result is astounding
THE COUNTRY To DE DEVELOPED
1t is the locomotive and the iron 20,
above her garden soil which have civ
Illinois one-fif;eenth of the populatlor
of the United States: which give h..
the power 10 bear one-titteenth uf H.
burdens OF the general governmen,.
which enable her 20 pay annually S2l
600, 900 of national taxes. beside sDs
tanning in the most liberal manner IN.
cost of her own enlightened and pro-
gressive government.
There are between Lake Superior ava
Puget sound and the mouth of the g.,
lumbia river 800 900 square miles of r-r
ritory; upon the larger portion OF which
the United States government can i'm.
press the prosperity, wealth and powp,
of Illinois. Ii is the winter wheat ".
gion # this continent. 1t is a region a.
alternate prairies and pine forests. Il
is a region the salubrity of whose oil.
mate has made it the sanitarium .pr
consumptives from the Atlantic slppr
IL is a region whose Rocky mountain
section. broken down in its formation ;,
"a To be psssable by loaded ponies. is
blessed with a temperature so mild tha,
countless herds OF cattle range and fat
raj grass within ten miles of the sun,
NIT. Ii is region in all whose valley,
peaches, apples. pears, ptums. cherries
grapes, and sweet potatoes have Rapid
growth and complete maturity. ltIss
region so rich in grass and so blessed ia
climate. that il has ever been the home
in winter as we'll as summer, of the elk
the buffalo. and the antelope. Ii la,
timber. water-power. and stone. IL la,
a population of 10000 people. Hin,
cis possessed no such endowment. He.
inheritance SO amazingly developed by
railroads was a garden soil, deeply un,
dcrlaid with Al thin seam Ot coat and =
deposit of friable sandstone. She had
nothing else. But every element o
wealth, every condition of social growth
and prosperity, exist in superabundanCr
and beyond exhaustion in the IeFritory
between Lake Superior and Puge.
sound For this immense region. ems
bracing Minnesota. Dakota, Montana
Idaho, Oregon, Washington, and parl
of Wisconsin. railroads can do mors
than they have done for Illinois. Ii i,
desirable, therefore, TO add to the na>
tional population, the national industry.
and the national wealth-it it is desig-
able to increase the taxable resources ul
the country, to add To its revenues, and
to lessen the burden OF the public debt.
by extending it financially over - de-
grees of longitude in addition To the
area il now covers-if il is desirable 10
provide cheap bread in perpetuity for
the nation from winter wheat TO be-
grown with unfailing regularity. and
in crops of from 30 to 60 bushels to the
acre, between the 10th and the 10Th
parallels of latitude, the government Of
the United States will surely aid the
construction of the North Pacific rails
way, and do for the region between
Lake Superior and the Pacific ocean
what the people of Illinois have done
for the State of Illinois. 1t was not nec-
essary for the government 10 do the
work performed by the people of Him
ois, otherwise than to aid them with
grants of public lands-neither was il
lawful. The people of Illinois owned
most of the soil of their State, and the
improvement of their property was
personal obligation TO which they felt
equal and were equal. But the United
States owns the country between ths
Pacific and Lake Superior. The work
of developing it is for the government
To do. The population of the country
is too thin and TOO poor TO even under. .
take it. The work, moreover. Is o. .
such magnitude as to be wholly be-
yond the compass of private capital. l.
is OF absolute necessity that the gov
ernment shall undertake and help i
through-and this il can do withoB I
the expenditure of a dollar in money
or an increase of the public debt.
TRANsCoNTINENTAL RAILROADS WILL i
GIVE Us INCREASE OF POPULATION
BY IMMIGRATION.
1t can be shown by official records
that the Eastern Division Pacific road
(ot Kansas,) the Union Pacific, and tb-
Central Pacific, have been instruments
in adding hundreds of thousands to thf
population of the States os Kansas 20.
orado, Iowa, Nebraska, California ana
Nevada. Minnesota owes to the rapa
ity and cheapness of transportation y
rail, her best population OF over lVO'
600 Germans. Norwegians and SWedss
Every foreign laborer landing on oI
shores is economically valued at Sl;SN
He rarely comes empty handed. IE
superintendent of the Castle 6ararA
Immigrant Depot has stated that
careful inquiry extending over peiiV piSs
of II months, gave an average oil CIV
almost entirely in coin, as the mOnsi
property of each man, woman, 3D.
child" landed ut New York. tfOL
1880, the commencement of our ralWH
building. TO 1860, the number OF torelSr
immigrants was 4,7S7,924 At thai
ito of coin wealth possessed by eSI-
the total addition to the stock of nonIi
in the United States made by TINS
dition to its population was S4,o'''-'
400.
The Union Pacific Railway ea''
division. has organized immigration
it's lands. 1t has agents in Europe
tel of tAe resources OF Kansas, anu "a
duce people to seek home there ~.
ing them if necessary TO cross the II
lantic, and To reach that State Oy ~,
and selling them the lands on ~
credit. This liberal and wise exam
will be followed. Let the NortheIn ~
cifc and Southern Pacific railroads