Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-03-29
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The Nertheru Parlar Railroad
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4 The longitude Of 81 Louis o. Galena-i
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POINT OF the Northern Pacific Railroad
. That great work, 80 maguifoently eu
: d0Sed by the Government, i alr,n.I,
beng pushed rapidly westward. und.
It's energetic controllers and before a.,
! NOV HES next Fall, il viii be completes
70 the western line of Minnesota. wher,
II crosses the Red River Of the North
which runs northNard 90 Lake Wiunipes
and one-eighth of its distance 10 IN,
Pacific Ocean viii have been accomplish
ed Commencing too, this season or
, ITS western line, the work will be uros.
cuted from both directions, and Ions
before the nation celebrates its Centen.
maj Anniversary Of independence. the
Lakes viii be united by iron bands with
that Mediterranean Of our Northwest
Puget Sound.
VI the suspicious influence of this
enterprise, which but a few wears agu
would have been considered so daring
the most sanguine Of its friends have
scarcely yet a full realization. Even
taking Chicago as a starting point. IL
viii be (rid ST. Paul, where an arm of
the Northern Pacific Railroad is reached
Two hundred miles less to Puget Sound
than TO San Francisco. Besides this
vessels from the Golden Gate to China
sail ON what is called the grand circle,
instead of in a straight line and any one
testing this by a string on a globe will
be surprised at the result, if thew have
not previously studied the effect of the
rotundlty of the earth, and its diminish
ed protuberance as you go northward
towards the Pole. Hence, when thew
have sailed eight hundred miles from
San francisco they are only one hun
dred miles from the entrance TO Puget
Sound and this striking fact shows the
advantages this route will have in com
handing the through traffic of Asia with
our Atlantic States, of that portion of il
which will pass over the soil of tina,
nation on the road to Europe.
Nor Is this all. Development is the
great duty of the Republic, after all its
recent trials. Resources are the gift of
the Creator. Developing them depends
on the work of man. Along the line of
the Northern Pacific Railroad, as IL fol-
lows up the water-courses, the Missouri
and the Yellowstone on this side. and
descends by the valley of the Columbia
on the other, vast body of agricultural
land is waiting for the plough, with
climate almost exactly the same as that
OF New York, except that. with less snow, |
cattle, In the larger portion of it, can |
suDslst on the open range in winter. |
Here, If climate and fertility of soil pro- |
duce their natural result, when railroad
lacllltles open this now isolated repicn |
to settlement, will soon be seen waving
grain-telds, and happy homes, and grow
ing towns while ultimately Gordon of
prosperous states, teeming with popula-
ton, and rich in industry and conse-
quent wealth, will occupy that now I'M
developed and almost inaccessible portion
of our continental area.
But this road is fortunate also in its
pathway across the two ranges of noun
talns which tested 50 severely the Pacific
Railroads built on the central line, and
the overcoming of which reflected such
well-deserved honor on their energetic
builders. At the Deer Lodge Pass. in
Montana, where it crosses the Rocky
Mountains, its altitude above the sea IS
J, QUO feet less than the Union Pacific
Railroad at Sherman, which is said to be
the highest point at which locomotive
can be found in the world. And on the
Pacific side of the continent it is even /
more fortunate. From Arizona I'D to !
The Arctic Circle the Columbia is the
only river which has torn its way through J
hat mighty range, the Andes of North 7
America, which in California is known 6
Is the Slerras, but which in Oregon .
'hanges its name to the Cascades. Ma /
ure has thus provided pathway for the Il
Northern Pacific Road through these n
Mountains, the scaling of which, on the .
,ther line, at an elevation of over seven u
thousand feet "a most wonderful triumph 8
II englneering), cost the Central Pacific
Company millions of dollars, and COM
'elled them, for seventy miles, to main
am grade of over one hundred feet to
he mile-twice the maximum of the n
Northern Pacific at the most difficult "
'oint In its entire route. n
1t is fortunate, also, in its terminus on A
he Pacific coast. No one who has not t,
zen there can realize the beauty of C,
'uget Sound and its surroundings. One r,
undred miles long, but SO full of inlets b
nd straits that its navigable shore-line m
leasures seventeen hundred and sixty il
lilies, dotted with lovely islets, with 81 fe
antlc trees almost to the waters edge, @
18th safe anchorage every where, and s.
'retchlng southwark, without shoals or et
airs, from the Straits of Fuca to the Is
apltal and center of Washington Terri VI
Try, it will be magnificent entrepot for a
he commerce OF the grandest ocean in :"
lie world, the Pacific. The GO
and Grant of the United States. exceed F.
g Fifty Millions of acres in the winter w
heat region of our nation ten times as ar
rye as the area of Mass. is doubtless I"
Efficient for the completion of the road: Ii,
1T, besides this, millions of private M
cans are already invested in it. The ch
'nds based on the Land Grant, and a p,
ortgage on the road itself in addition. IA
e beng sold as rapidly as the money is ar
'eded and, as an investment, yielding pr
'out eight perl cent. per year in cur on
ncy, rank already with the best class an
railroad securities. And thus the good MI
ork will go on with unchecked step to m,
final contamination, carrying the at,
essings of settlement, development, oh
'lllzation, and christianity with it in DO
progress, and literally causing the on
lderness to blossom as the rose. liv
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