Ashtabula weekly telegraph. [volume] (Ashtabula, Ohio) 1853-1873, 1869-05-29


TRAVEL OVER THE Pacific RAILROAD.
On the lst Of May fifteen thousand
people in California were booked for an
overland trip by rail. The tide Of trav-
el has fuirly commenced, and the time
has now come when tourists will make n
trip to the Rocky Mountains before
climbing the Alps or indulging in q sail
on tie Rhine For an American to visit
Europe for pleasure before he has seen
our own magnificent landscapes or moui
tains, waterfalls, waving pines, and broad
arscn parks, is ridiculous and Justly sub
jGcts him to unfavorable criticism abroad.
Our mountain scenety is as wild, bcauti-
full, romantic and sublime as any Europe
can present, with the advantage that it
is Oh a much grandur scale. No brooks
sparkle brighter or are better filed with
trout than ours, and no climate on earth
is more invigorating, clear and beautiful
than ours. One might spend q dozen
summers in exploring our mountain
chains, and still the half would not nave
been seen. Let those of the East who
have the leisure and money, but are lack
ing in health and vigor, come and camp
awhile in our beautiful hooks, bathe in
our hot and cold mineral springs and re-
gain youth, vigor and health. No lor-
lcn of the world offers so much variety
Of scenery, and it is time that Americans
understand. If they want farther testi-
mony, let them read Samuel Bowles'
book, and follow his example Our ar
lists already appreciate our Importance,
and have been focking here IN great
numbers to transfer n portion of our
beauties to canvas, but they ought not to
be left alone in the enjoyment of it's
pleasures Colorado Register, May 10.
LAKE SUPERIoR.-Thc construction of new
lines of railway, designed to cheaper the trans.
portaton of food from the Mississippi Valley
to the seaboard, is Of national interest. The
Lake Superior and Mississippi River Railroad,
100 miles long, connecting ST. Paul with Du
Luth, at the western extremity OF Lake Supc-
rior, will save the freight on 800 miles of rail
carriage TO water navigation on all the wheat,
flour, beef, and pork of Minnesota, North
western Wisconsin, Northeastern Iowa, and
of Dakotah, which now go to Chicago and
Milwaukee, Thirty miles Of the road are
completed and in use; eighty miles are under
contract, and the remaining forty will be let
next month. The best of American rails,
spikes, splice-bars and bolts, for the eighty
miles, nre being manufactured in Pennsylva-
nia, and currently shipped to Du Luth. The
road has now in use aRd under construction
six locomotives, ninety.thrco freight cars, and
eight passenger cars. The line runs through
principally virgin forest of pine. Enter
prising parties are contracting with the COM
pany to put up steam saw-mlI3 on its lands.
Proposals have been made to il to erect car
factories. Two huge grain elevators will be
built at Du Luth this year. A hotel 1GO fee,
long aud two churches will also 20 up tlIc
present season, -Four steamers will this season
run regularly to Du Luth, and as many more
from Buffalo and Detroit. Parties at Erie and
Ogdensburg, owners of lines of propellers, are
negotiating with the railroad company foI the
carriage of the grain it will car to the lake
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