New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1872-10-26
PRESENT CONDITION or TIE NORTH

PACIFIC RAILROAD.
II ia announced that by the middle of No
vember this new road viii be completed to the
Missouri River, ASP miles west of Duluth. This
will be an addition of 200 miles since Spring.
Trains have been running daily between Du-
luth and the Red River since April last, and
new rolling stock is ready to equip the extern
sion.
On the Pacific side in Washington Territory
a small section of % miles has been some
time in operation. Forty miles more OF track
will be completed before the close of the sea-
son. Adding the completed portion on the
Pacific side to the Eastern section, it gives
a total of SIT miles of track laid in little more
than two years from the commencement of
work. When the delays encountered the first
wear in making the surveys and deciding on
the best line through the forest region are
considered, the result is marvellous, and
attests the energy with which the work is
pushed forward Some idea of the work ac-
complished will be conveyed by stating that
the finished portion of the road in November
will exceed in length the New-York Central,
with all its lateral and branch lines included.
Besides the actual construction, the work of
surveying and locating the entire line across
the continent has proceeded with vigOr. The
exploring parties have fought few scattering
Indians, but have carried their surveys sue
cessfully to the Yellowstone. The portion
of the road now in operation has a large and
increasing local traffic. 1t interseets the Red
River at Moorhead from which point a new
railroad is being constructed northward up the
valley to Pembina, where it will meet and
join line now being built southwark from
Fort Garry. 1t commands the eastward bound
freight and travel of the British settlements
in Manitoba, and also of the Hudson's Bay
Company. 1t is also the outlet of large pOr-
ton of the grain grown in Minnesota.
When the contracts for this season are com
peted, the Company will have permanent
business in the great traffic of the Upper Mis-
souri, River, with all the Government trans
portation in the Northwest. A few miles be-
yOnd the point where the railway strikes the
Missouri the river bends TO the westward, and
is navigable for steamboats, for 1000 miles of
water way from the railroad crossing to Fort
Benton. At the foot of the Rocky Mountains
in Western Montana, nearly forty steamers are
employed during the season in tho trade Of
these upper waters. & '--''-
1 In April next at the opening of navigation,
there will be direct communication, east and
west, by rail and river, from Lake Superior, in
longitude % degrees, to the populous districts
in Western Montana, in longitude 10 degrees.
From this point westward it is about 400 miles
through the passes of the Rocky Mountains to
that portion of the Columbia River whence it
is navigable to the Pacific.
The finished sections of road entitle the
Company to about ten million acres of land,
granted by the Government, constituting an
area about twice the extent of Massachusetts,
Ten million contiguous acres belonging TO the
Government are at the same time rendered
habitable and salable The lands are situated on
either side of the line, and principally con-
sist of excellent farming land, with the pro-
ductive soil characteristic of all the prairie
region. Settlers have already applied for more
than quarter of a million of acres. The !
Company has already begun the cancellation |
of its seyen-thirty first mortgage bonds by the
proceeds of its sales of land, and is accom-
plishing its great work with the utmost sue
cess and economy.
There is prospect of a large emigration of
the tenant farmer class from England in the !
coming Spring. One colony alone, recently |
formed there, through its pioneer agents secured
q tract in Clay County, Minnesota, of $4,000 |
acres directly on the line of railway. The in
tended settlement is to be named Yeovil, |
after town in the West of England |
whence the majority of the colonists will |
come. The first contingent of this colony |