Lamoille newsdealer. [volume] (Hyde Park, Vt.) 1860-1877, 1871-02-01
The Northern Pacific Railroad.

: De Safe 81 Miubesoia 10 Duluih, al Il
80 vf IAle supsdor, 24o nib e q
erossing Ofthe Red River Of ihe Mort
With several thousand men employed, Il
/, grading on this section is fast approach
ing completion, and the iron is being lai
at the rate Of one TO two miles a day. |
!, the meantime engineers are locating n
line westward through oeuiral Dakota
preparations are completed for tho cor
meneement Of work al The Pacific eBdne1
spring, and thereafter the work Of cor
siructiOn viii be prosecuted from both ez
tremities toward the centre.
In addition to this, the Northern Pa
cifc Company have recently purchase,
and practically consolidated with thei
own line the St. Paul and Pacific Railroad
embracing some 800 miles Of finished rOat
in Minnesota on which a prosperous bust
ness is already doing. This purchase re.
moves all rivalry between interests,
and practically makes St. Paul one ter.
minus of the great Northern road. The
Northern Pacific Railroad system is GER
tainly assuming business-like form, and
comprehensive proportions. Obviously
its projectors do not intend to build sim
pie trunk road from East to West aud
then wait for q profitable traffic to come
to it. On the contrary, they are at the
outset securing such connections and alli-
apces with the chief lines of water COM
munication, and with the railroad system
of the Atlantic and Pacific States, as can
not fail to bring 10 it, in addition to its
local business, a large and increasing share
of the carrying trade between ocean and
ocean. At Duluth one arm meets the
commerce of the Lakes and the St. Law.
renee; at st. Paul the other eastern arm
connects with the commerce of the Missis-
slppi river and its tributaries, and with
the railroads of the central and eastern
States, concentrating at Chicago. These
Two arms will unite in Western Minneso-
Ia. From the point of junction a third
branch will extend to Pembiua ON the
British border, and the trunk line will
raverse central Dakota, and follow the
low famous Yellowstone valley through
Montana. Near the boundary of Idaho
he road will again branch-ouc arm fol-
owing down the valley of the Columbia
Underwater at Portland, Oregon the
ther striking directly across the Cascade
ange to the terminus on Puget Sound. A
'orth and South will also connect the
'uget Sound terminus with that at Port.
md. AT the latter point connection is
lade with the coast lines of road now :,
allding southwark through Oregon and
alfornia. 10 Both at Portland and Puget
'und the road will tap the coastwise and :
reign trade of the Pacific Ocean. mE "
nv, a
The chief advantages peculiar to the :,
orthern Pacific route are believed to be =,
ese : L. 1t rsduces the distance between .,
Lakes and Pacific Ocean some 600 >;
lies. 2. 1t lessons the distance between ;,
ew York and the Pacific by water and y,
il to the same extent y A. 1t lessons the >,
stance between London and Chinese ports i
the trans-contincntal route at least
.00 miles. 4. 1t traverses a belt Of 90
ates and Territories admirably adapted 4,
fertility of soil, mildness of tempera- /
re, and equal distribution Of moisture, =,
profitable agriculture. 5. Its elevation =,
the mountain region is 5000 feet less =
III that of other lines, resulting in d. ~
nished snowfall mild climate, and :. o.
easier gradients. 6. At convenient 20
ervals it intersects numerous navieable H.
eams-such as the Columbia, the Cow 4
, the Yellowstone, the Missouri, the Z, y,
d, and the Mississippi-wlich drain I"
It region, and will serve as feeders to Di
road. Z. 1t will partake Of the char.
or OF an international route, permanent 9.
controlling the carrying trade Of Brit.
America, and rendering the important
'nieS north Of The boudary, and west Of '''
'eSuperior, commercially tributary to ito
-'0''u"es'srh 0'a'es' pre-
Already it is stated that settlers arc are it
idly crowding to the line Of the North. roo
Pacific Road IN the New Northwest ito
judging from what is known of The the
IS si adopted for promoting the settle call
t aid development, through emigra- wit
and colonization, of the belt of States stoc
Territories tributary to the line-there goo
Id seem to be no doubt that the cor one
ton upon which the Government has ter,
cred this great trust, is determined to from
. the enterprise not only financially CROP
d, but greatly and permanently bene! with
tolthe whole couatry. with its nu. istie
mt endowment Of fertile lands, with root
atural advantages this route undoubt. Eng
enjoys, and with the far-sighted poll land