New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1869-07-21
THE NoRrpERN PACIFIC RAILROAD.

Within eight months Of the present time
ground Will undoubtedly be broken for tue CONSTRUCTION
of the Northern Pacific Railroad which is to extend from
Duluth at the head Of Lake SUPERIOR nes 10 soat
Tic on Puget sound thus forming the saoTes PSoae
our Northern Lakes. The Northern Paclhc kallrOad
Company was chartered by Congress during the admins
traton Of President Polk and the leading spirits IN the
enterprise Southern politicians and capitalists john
C. Breckenridge Berah Magonn and several other mem.
projectors Before the outbreak or the ReDeIloh the
franchise of the Company passed into Northern and loyal
hands. Governor James Gregory Smith, Of Yer
mont, ia the President Of the Company. The
Northern Pacific Railroad has q munihcent
land endowment but, thus far, loan OF Government
credit. No Government bond subsidy, such as that
granted 20 the Central and Union Pache VIII Dc asked
FOR the Northern line The grant OF Government lands
already made BY Congress to tine op
acres. per mile through the states OF Wisconsin ana
per mile through the territories Along the main ne al
is branches this grant embraces nearly NIFTY million acres
from Lake Superior to tdewater the Pacific slope.
For the first hundred miles west from the Eastern
S SsTIs1 Dine and hardwood forest, and for
seven hundred miles more 1t Will traverse q
is the very home OF winter wheat and which WILL before
many years. furnish bread TO- millions OF people living III
gIon OF Montana and Idaho with It's mineral wealth and
grazing lands. Crossing the Rocky Mountain range at
point where broken down INTO scattered elevations
as hardly deserve the name, the road Will enter the
fertile valley OF the Columbia River and thence thr0uga
pass In the Cascade range 10 tdewaer Puget Sound
Unlike Union Pacific tho proposed Northern route
and alkaline valleys. With superficial geographic
cal education been In the habit OF regarding our
extreme north territories hardly less frozen and
unnyIting than Labrador on the contrary one Leading
advantage the Northern Pacific Road Will have the
present completed line will consist the fact that,
although located six degrees further morrill, IL Will
be ensily kept FREQ OF snow the year round.
Th climate difference In favor Of the Northern line Is
due mainly the difference altitude. For instance,
more than $50 miles will have elevation exceeding
5000 feet above the while le miles OF the present
Pacific Road than 400 feet above the same sea
level miles OF the Union Pacific have alt
de OF feet While the highest point on the present
line feet above tdewate the highest point on the
water Jay Cooke Co. will DO the fiscal agents OF the
enterprise The contract already closed with this eNcep
that the former insist upon making personal III
spec0n OF the proposed route before entering actively
upon the work. Accordingly two parties, starting
sectvey from Puget Sound aud Lake Superior, begin
being represented in each expedition This preliminary
examination OF the line VIII probably be completed by
Of October next at which time the two parties
will como together compare notes aud submit their
port Tho road expected 10 be completed In five years.
probable cost OF sl2OOOOO. In connection with the
work Of construction Bureau OF Immigration will be
organized, having agents In all tho countries Of
Northern Europe, To encourage and facilitate the
migration OF labOrers who Will at first obtain employ
ment the railroad, and gradually become propretors
the farm lands alonG its line From the Pacific at San
Francisco to the lakes az Chicago t 7l2J miles from
Pacific at Seattle To tho lakes at Duluth It is only
miles From Seattle to Chicago by way OF Duluth
tall raid II is 2ll0 miles. From NewIork 10 San Francis
via Chicago and Omaha IL is 3323 miles from New
York Puget Sound via Chicago and the Northern Pa
cihc route it is 500 miles Finally from NewYork TO
Shanghai via Chicago, San Francisco, and the Midway
Islands Oi23 miles from New York Shanghai
Chicago the Northern Pacific, and Puget Sound. IL is
1856 miles. Chicago Advance, July Is.