The St. Cloud journal. [volume] (St. Cloud, Minn.) 1866-1876, 1869-06-24
TkaE AOhIHEHH PACIFIC RAIL.
ROAD,

From the st. Paul P,ess, 17M.
| From private advices received by
telegraph and letter within few days
BY Hon. VIM. Window, one OF the
Directors Of the Northern Pacific Rail-
raad Company, from its President, We
are permitted to take some further par
ticulars regarding the recently matured
arrangements and plans Of the Company.
A meeting Of the Directors Of the Com
pany was held last week at the Fifth
Avenue Hotelin New York City, where
. very full representation was present,
which ratified the contract With Jay
Cooke + Co., and also passed a resolu-
zion instructiog the executive committee
70 proceed with surveys, commencing
at the most ea.terly terminus of the line,
aad locate the road to its point of juno
tien with the lake Superior and MjssB-
sippi Railroad with vie" to retire
The lsads east Of that point from market
aod to locate the road west 70 that point
for construction on such line as is
thought best. Preliminary to the
engineers surveys, arrangements have
1een made for an official reconnaissance
o. explora loo Of the route from Lake
Superior to the Pacific Coast in two or
three separate expeditions.
Jay Cooks & Co. have sent out one
party to the Pacific coast, to commence
their explorations at the Pacific te'nini
Of the road, and follow its proposed
route eastward across the continent
This party left New York on the 18th
inst. Mr.. Garfield, who left New York
on Monday last, is to take charge of
the expedition, From Portland, Ore
gon, the expedition is to 60 to Puget's
SQUAD, take the steamer at Olympia,
and coast up to Bellipgham Bay, visit
ing points Of interes: and returning to
Olympia. Thence the party will stnke
across 70 Columbia river, which they
will ascend to Pend O'Reille Lake
thence they will march to Fort Benton
whence they will take steamer to
Sioux City and thence return to New
York by rail. This route, Of course,
follows the projected line Of the North
ern Pacific. 1t will carry the explorers
through some of the most magnificent
scenery on the coctinent, and enable
them to verify the testimony of pre-
vious explorers regarding the favorable
typographical and bydrographical fea-
tures Of the route, ana its capacity of
sustaining dense agricultural as we'll
IS N ming population. The directors
also propose to start, on the eastern end
ot the line, another expedition, consis-
ting of the President, Mr.. Smith the
Chief Engineer, Mr.. johnson; Judge
Rice, aud perhaps one or two others,
accompanied by one or more represen-
tatives OF Jay Cooks 4 Co. Tho party
are now arranging for military escort
to protect them from the Red River to
the Great Bend Of the Missouri. Mr..
Smith, Judge Rice, and Mr.. Johnso
will probably reach St. Paul next week,
whence they are going to Lake Superior
to make the necessary examinations
at Superior City and Duluth, and
thence to Bayfield, and Montreal River,
where they propose to start their eugi-
neers to survey and locate the line from
there to the junction with the Superior
and Mississippi Railroad. This accom-
plished the party will return to St.
Paul, where they viii expect BY that
time to meet the Jay Cooke party and
proceed with them by way of St. Cloud
to the Red River. At that poiot the
parties will separate, the Cooke party
going on to the Missouri River and the
Directors down the Red River to
Georgetwon, and possibly to Pembina
whence they will return home. Mr..
Windon, the resident Director. is max
ing arrangements to provide this ex-
pedition with transporticn, outfit, &C.,
from St. Cloud. He and Gov. Mar
shall have both been earnestly invited
to accompany the expedition.
Jay Cooke has taken hold of his en-
tsrpr1se with great ardor and full faith
in its success. He is prepared immedi-
ately on the return of his party from
their formal examination Of the route,
to put on a heavy force aud commence
the work of construction. We infer
that the work will commence at the
point Of junction with the Superior road.
From gentlemen who have recently
convcrsed with MI. Window, who is
thoroughly in the confidence of the
Company, and is understood to
have been assigned leading
position in the enterprise, We learn
that all advices from the Directors are
full Of enthusiastic confidence in the
complete success Of the arrangements
which have been made for the speedy
construction Of the road through to the
Pa ,i6c Coast.