Bozeman avant courier. [volume] (Bozeman, Mont.) 1872-1882, 1872-11-21
Present Con ditiOR of the NOrfs
Pacific Railroad.

Present Conditions of the North
Pacific Railroad.
1t is announced trr5t Ey the nai,sflae of No
yember this new road will Ds. completes to
the Missouri river. 4a2 miles west oi Duluth
This will be an addition OF 1DO miles since
Spring. Trains have been running daily he
tween Duluth and the Red River since April
last smi now roluig stock is ready to equip
the extension. ],
On the Pacific siAe in Washington Tcrr-
tory small section OF twenty-five miles mas
been some time in operation. Forty miles
more of track Will be completed before the
close of the season. Aiding the completed
portion OF. the P;tt fife side to the Eastern
section. it gives a total of five hundred ana
seventeen miles OF track laid IN little more
than two years from the commencement oi
! work. When the delays encountered the hrst
year in making the surveys and deciding on
the best line through the forest regiol, are
considered, The result is marvellous, and at
tests the energy with which the work Is
nushed forward. Some idea OF the work Ac-
| com plished will be conveyed by stating that
| the finished portion of the road in November
win exeede in length the New York Cen-
! trail. with all its literal and branch lhes IN
| cuded.
Resides the actual construction, the work
Of surveying and locating the entire line
| across tile continent has proceeded with
yieor. Tie exploring parties have fought a
scattering Indians. but have carried
their surveys successfully to the 1eiiow-
stone. The portion of the road now IN op-
! erationand increasing has a large. local traf-
t;c II intersects the Red River at Moore-
head. and frosa Glyndon. eleven milest east
of Red River. a new railroad is being con-
structed northward up the valley to Penn
bina, where it will meet and join a line soon
i fn he built southwark from Fort Garry. 1t
commands the southeastern bound frelght
| and travel of the British settlements on NAH
itoba. and also of the Hudson's Bay Com
! many, 1t will also be the outlet OF large
norfion of the grain grown in Minnesota.
When the contracts for this season are COM
nIeted. tie company will have permanent
business in the great traffic OF the upper
Missouri River, with all the .Govef hnleDt
: transport tations in the North-W est. A few
miles heyond the point where the railway
: strikes the Missouri, the river bends to the
westward. and is nayigable tOr s eamnQats
for one thousand miles. Of water. way from
the railroad crossing to Fart Benton at the
foot OF the Rocky Mountains, IN Eastern
1 Montana. - >: ,,;t;
= the season In the trade of tETese upper waters
;; In April. next. at the opening of navlsa
= tio,,. there will be direct communication
. east and west, by rail and river, from Lake
= superior, in longitude 81 degrees, to tht
. pop,s|ous districts In. Western Montana, II
= longitude no degrees. From tins pom
! westward it is about four hundred miles
q through the passes Of the Rocky Mountains
: !, 10 shat portion of the ColutEbia river Whenc
: : it Is navigable to the Paeifie.,
|. The finished sections. of the road .entIf
y the company to about ten million acres
q land. granted by the Government. eonstlt'
= ting an area about twice the extent ef Mas
II sachusetts. Ten million contiguous acre
- belonging to the Government are AZ "
- same time rendered habitable and saleaoit
rte lands arc situsss ed on either side OF tn
: = line. and principally consist OF excel!ei
:, :, farming Lard. With the productive soii Ella
y y actsr;sfie of all the prairie region. Settle
~ have already applied .or more than quart.
u: Of = miIlon of acres. The company. has a
~ ready begun the caneellAtion OF. It's sevel
le thirty fir-t mortgage bonds by the proceed
- IF its sales of land, and is accomplishing u
- greatiwoyk with success anu economy.
a There is a prospect OF q large emigration :,
" the tenant farmer class lroih Eng 'a''u y, VI
y, coming Spring. One COLONY alone. recent
70 ARMED there. through its pioneer agents 8
.o cured a tractsin Clay county Minnesota,
70 Is5 O00 acres directly Oil the line OF faiiWa
O. Tue intended settlement is to be name
" y Yeoyil. after a town in the west OF hi'gia'
=. y .wber ce the majority OF the coionis.s WI
ne come. The first contingent OF thls f1oio,
-. numbers about two ttsousdilu Jug 1eii"ito -
:. - | will follow in 1873.
III rhe bureau having IN charge the Land y
:4 nartnent of the road has built aud furnlshs
Convenient reception-houses for the free,a e, :
od eommodation Of intending settlers and !he IN
ed families while. engaged in selecting tht
ne farms. On of these are at Duluth anoIn
~ At . Brainert, where the road crosses the Mi
at sissinpi. and a third at Glyndon, al the cres
IN inc Of the Red River; Emlgrants used
ea- trnndie with their ox-ea'ts over foriorh a.
tie desolated prairies. and biyouac !, Where Y
em ,,;9ht fonnd them 1t is quite different no.
Sc. rhsr are .carficdin comfort to the very SIT
be- af their future homes--and the organizatI
III of the system is such that they are protect
M from IMPOSITION or spoliation from the I'll
leave their fhd tdnssn across e their tine wa ~
nd ones under the sunset. Every able-bod'
nd and industrious man and woman who cou
OF f,ther makes the nation richer a
y a nsptribptcs to, the general ,prosperl
aer and in this view the condition and prospe
aed Of the race are a source of legitimate consI
My alation. Arrangements are making Ior pA =
re- In construction east and west during IL
lne N. Y. Tribune.