Gold Hill daily news. [volume] (Gold Hill, N.T. [Nev.]) 1863-1882, 1870-12-30
NORTHERN PACIFIC RAILROAD.

LINZ SupcilOi, WV Ai'''iu'SN
miles to the crossing of the Red river
Of the North. With several thousand
mel employed, the grading OIL this
section Is fast approaching completion,
and the iron is being laid at the rate OF
one to two miles a day. In the mean-
time, engineers + locating the line
westward through central Dakota
Presentations are completed for the
commencement of work at the Pacific
end next Spring, and thereafter the
work of construction will be prose-
cuted from both extremities toward the
center. In addition to this, the North
ern Pacific Company have recently
purchased and practically consolidated
with their own line the st. Paul and
Pacific Railroad, embracing some three
hundred miles of finished road In Mln-
nesota, on which a prosperous business
Is already doing. This purchase re-
moves all rivalry between conflicting
interests, and practically makes St.
Paul one terminus of the great North
ern road. The Northern Pacific Rail-
road system is certainly assuming a
business-like form and comprehensive
proportions. Obviously its projectors
do not intend to build q simple trunk
road from East to West, and then wait
for u profitable traffic to come to it.
On the contrary, they are at the outset
securing such connections and alliances
with the chief lines of water commu-
nication, and with the railroad systems
of the Atlantic and Pacific States, as
cannot fail to bring to 1t, In addition to
its local business, 4 large and increas-
ing share of the carrying trade between
ocean and ocean At Duluth II arm
meets the commerce Of the Lakes and
the st. Lawrence; ut st. Paul the other
eastern arm connects with the COM
merce Of the Mississippi river and its
tributaries, and with the railroads OF
the central and Eastern States, concen-
trating at Chicago. These two arms
! will unite in Western Minnesota.
From the point of junction a third
branch will extend to Pembina, OH the
British border, and the trunk line Will
traverse central Dakota, and follow
the now famous Yellowstone Valley
through Montana. Near the boundary
of Idaho the read will again branch
one arm following down the valley OF
! the Columbia to tide water ut Port
land. Oregon; the other striking d.
rectly across the Cascade range to the
main terminus OH Puget Sound. A
North and South branch will also con-
meet the Puget Sound terminus with
that ut Portland. At the latter point
connection is made with the coast lines
of road now building southwark
through Oregon and California. Both
ut Portland and Puget Sound the road
will tap the coastwise and foreign trade
of the Pacific Ocean. The chief nd
vantages peculiar to the Northern Pa
cifc route are believed to be these:
|. Ii reduces the distance between the
Lakes and the Pacific Ocean some six
hundred miles. =. 1t lessons the dis
lance between New York and the Pa
| cific by water and rail to the same
extent. ;. 1t lessons the distance be-
tween London and Chinese ports by the
transcontincn;al route ut least fourteen
hundred miles. 4. 1t t~rayerses n belt
of States and Territories admirably
adapted by fertility Of soil, mildness of
temperature, and equal distribution OF
moisture. to profitable agriculture.
>. It. elevation in the mountain region
is three thousand feet less than that OF
other lines, resulting in n diminished
snowfall, 4 mild climate, and far easier
gradients. 6. At convenient inter-
walls it intersectS numerous navigable
streams-sucli as the Columbia, the
CowlitZ, the Yellowstone. the Missouri,
the Red and the MisSiSsippi-which
drain Il vast region, and will serve rs
feeders to the road. Z. 1t will partake
of the character Of an international
route, permanently controlling the
CARRYING trade of British America. and
rendering the important colonies north
of the boundary and west Of Lake
Superior commercially tributary to our
Northwestern States. Already 1t Is
stated that settlers are rapidly crowd
ing to the line of the Northern Pacific
Road in the New Northwest, and,
Judging from what is known Of the
plans adopted for promoting the settle
ment and development, through immi-
grafton and colonization, Of the belt
of States and Territories tributary to
the line, there would seem 10 DC ITO
doubt that the corporation upon which
the Government has conferred this
great trust is determined to make the
enterprise not only financially sound,
but greatly and permanently beneficial
to the whole country. With its NUM-
iicent endowment of fertile lands, with
the natural advantages this route un-
doubtedly enjoys, and with the far
sighted policy already inaugurated, 4
great commercial project could hardly
start under better auspices, or with
greater assurance of success.
EMREzzLEMESTs by young cashiers
and book-keepcrs, it is remarked. are