Fayette County herald. [volume] (Washington [Washington Court House], Fayette County, O. [Ohio]) 1860-1???, 1872-02-08
Northern Pacific Railway.

This important line is progressing
so fast in financial favor and actual
working order for several hundred
miles, that it becomes duty to those
who are promoting the welfare of this
country TO bring before our readers
the future prospects of the road The
starting point of the railway is at Du-
luth, thriving young city situated
on Lake Superior. The route which
it then traverses across the continent
is remarkable for mineral wealth and
superior herbage 1t has great grain
producing qualities and vast wood
lands of the most valuable kind.
The timber of Puget Sound (where
the Northern Pacific teTminates) has
world wide celebrity for its excel
lence and durability. 1t is applicable
both for ships and dwellings, especial
ly the produce of the fir, which in
this region is very abundant, and
much harder than the white oak We
| quote from reliable authority when
we state that over one hundred and
eighty millions of'feet of this timber,
besides piles and spars, are exported
annually from Puget Sound, and
doubtless the Northern Pacific line of
railway will increase this trade to an
extent almost unlimited. The carry
ing of this alone will be a source of
large revenue to the company, as we
conclude from the fact that last year
the trade in timber from Puget Sound
gave employment to no less than sew
en- hundred and thirty-six vessels
| What ~ JNo ha
improved facilities of railway convey
ance are brought to bear upon it -?
The value of the land through which
the Northern Pacific will travel in its
eighteen hundred miles of extent, we
have reason to believe will stand pre-
eminently among the first in marketa-
bic value, with its capabilities of pro-
ducing crops of all kinds. 1t runs
through the Yellowstone, Gallatin,
Deer Lodge, and other valleys, which
form several hundred miles of the
road, and all along over rich and
/ productive soil. These lands mus
advance in the scale of prices in pro
portion to the increased advantages
afforded by the road. Land not only
| varies in value with it's fertility, bu
= TX " IT'S htIdbGhc e
r may be its fertility. Land near towr
: on railway is, of course, of create
t value than land equally fertile in 1
! distant part of the country, and with
out these named advantages
! though it may cost no more to cult
] vate the one than the other, yet still
2 it must always cost more to bring tht
produce of the distant land to market
Railways, by diminishing the expens
| of carriage of agricultural or othe
r products, put the land in remote part
} of the country more nearly on leve
e with that near the town. Railroads
: therefore, are, on this account
t esteemed the greatest of all improve
D ments; and we allude to this on &C
D count of the enormous grant of Ian,
{ which the United States Governmeh
5 have made to the Northern Pacifi
: Company, and which covers no les
$ than an area of Fifty Millions Q
4 acres. The bondholders are made Sc
e cure by this land grant, which, at tn
o lowest calculation, rs worth treble it
# liability. The bonds. therefore, safe
+ ly enjoy the large gold interest .whic
/. the company readily and easily pay
on it's bonds. They also await p;
, tiently the development of a futul
: prosperity which careful men beliey
a no other line in the world can so eas
/ ly attain.