The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-08-21

ob'OOAy OdhS anu cllnS ana llmltleSS ncldS, whose
Yerdure changes in varying hues with every
passing cloud-wantng only q background of
highlands to make IL as lovely as Windermere-
the most enchanting of all the lakes of Old
England. You see at your feet the little village
OF Glenwood, which in coming years will be the
resort of tourists, artists, and seekers after
pleasure.
If you are fond of fishing go out upon this
sheet OF water, with the same strong-armed Nor
Weglan who pulled the boat for me yesterday
morning. There are pickerel in these ponds of
Minnesota such as we are not accustomed to
catch in New England A four-pounder is a
large fish to pull from the waters of Winnipesau-
kee but ! hauled up fifteen-pOunder yester-
day, and the people here say that they catch
them weighing twenty-five pounds l dare say
that the very thought of catching such fresh
water sharks will quicken the pulse of many u
boy, and perhaps some of the old folks would
like to drop line in these waters.
But to return to the subject from which we
have strayed-and it is not the first time we have
played truant by going fishing. We have said
that this inheritance of the American people
reaches 400 miles northwest of Chicago-it is
that far to the Rocky Mountans-in British
America, and that carries us only to the isother-
mai line OF % degrees mean summer tempera-
ture. You may go on 800 miles further to the
north branch of the Saskatchewan before reach
ing the northwestern boundary of the wheat
field.
THE MOUNTAINS.
All of this territory lies north and east of the
We have spoken of il as a wheat field, and have
said nothing of its other resources but here are
the supplies of timber from which the people of
more southern sections are to receive their
future building materials. Looking out from my
tent towards the northeast | can Sec on the
horizon, the dim blue outline of the tmbered
region around the streams forming the head
waters of the Mississippi. If we travel west we
shall find cXhaustless supplies of coal. Between
the Red river of the North and the Rocky
Mountain lie the great coal fields of this gra-
nary of the continent. On the streams that find
their way into Lake Superior and on the Msss-
sippi are sites for manufactures where, in
coming years, the hum of machinery, the clatter
of the shuttle and buZZng of mill-whCes will
break the stiffness of the primeyal solitude.l
Go ON to the dividing ridge of the continent
to Montana-with its gold, tssilver, its iron and
coal, fertile valleys and tmbered hills; take
look at what lies beyond in Oregon, Washing
ton, and Nancouver--at the water power of the
Columbia and its tributaries-the forests of pine,
so dense that the brightest sunlight of midday
does not dispel its darkness and gloom-to the
waterfalls, the pasture lands-to the arabic lands
and to the mines of Idaho, the coal of Puget
Sound, the harbors, unequalled in the world,
fronting China and Japan: and over the shortest
line between the Orient and Occident; with a
climate as mild that of Virginia; to a half
dozen mountain passes where the altitude does
not exceed five thousand feet: to a region where
less snow falls than last winter fell upon the
hills of Berkshire to a region which is yet to be
the New England OF the Pacific Coast take in
the boundaries of this inheritance-not all as yet
beneath our cOuntry's flag. but ere long to he;
think of the immediate future, if you would OBJ
tain an idea OF the material wealth of the North
west, waiting only the appearance of the hus-
bandman. He will soon be here.
THE SABBATH.
Our company is resting to-day on the banks of
this peaceful river. The farmer who lives up
the stream and tends the ferry where we crossed
yesterday has Oneneghbor within ~ miles, but "a
tNVplVpmOpth hence ne dotted bV
farm houses. To-day we have listened to a SER
mon from DR.. Lord, who preached beneath a
canvas roof. We were called together by the
blowing of tin trumpet, but year hence the
sweet and solemn tones of church bells will echo
over these verdant meadows.
The locomotive-that great civilizer of this
centUry-will be here before the flowers bloom
another spring. 1t will bring towns, villages
churches, school-houses, printing presses, and
millions of free people in its train. | sit as in
a dream. | can hear, in imagination, the voices
of the advancing multitude of light-hearted
maidens and sober matrons, of bright-eyed boys
and strong-armed men. The wild roses are
blooming here to-day; the sod as yet is unturned,
and the lilies of the field hold up their cups to
catch the falling dew; but another year will
bring the beginning of the change. Civiliza-
ton which has crossed the Mississippi, will soon
flow down this stream, pouring its waters into
the distant ocean of the North, it will sweep on
to the valley of the upper Missouri.
Think of it, young men OF the East, you who
are measuring off tape for young ladies, shut up
in as tore through the long and wearisome hours,
barely earning your living. Throw down the
yardstick and come out here, if you would be
men. Let the fresh breeze fan your brow, take
hold of the plow, bend down for a few years TO
hard work with determination to win and sue
cess will attend your effort.
Is this lettertO enthusiastic? Will those who
read 1t say "he has lost his head and gone daft
out there on the prairies?" Not quite. l am an
observer here, as / have been in other lands. !
have ridden many times over the great States of
the Northwest have seen the riches of Santa
Clara and Napa west of the Sierra Nevadas;
have looked out over the meadows of Yang-te-ze
and the Nile and can say with honest convic-
tion, that for one who has had home in New
England, have seen nowhere so inviting q field
us that of Mihnesota-none with greater unde-
veloped wealth, none with such prospect of
quick development. CARLETON.