Eaton weekly Democrat. [volume] (Eaton, Ohio) 1866-1875, 1872-11-21
Present Condition of the North Pacific
Railroad.
From the New York Tribune. Oct. 20.

Present Condition of the North Pacific
Railroad.
From the New York Tribune, Oct. 70.
1t is announced that by the middle Of No
the Missouri river, 452 miles west of Duluth.
This will be an addition of 200 miles since
spring. Trains have been running daily be-
tween Duluth and the Red river since April
last, and new rolling stock is ready to equip
the extension.
On the Pacific side, in Washington Territory,
a small section of 25 miles has been some time
in operation. Forty miles more of track Will
be completed before the close of the season.
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 the work.
When the delays encountered the first year in
maxim : 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 accomplished will be con-
| veyed by stating that the finished portion of
tho 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. Th
exploring parties have fought a 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 in
creasing local traffic. IL intersects the Red
river at Moorhead, from which point a new
4 Id1lIOdu 10 Gill COuSlIuCU6u up G1IO
valley to Pembina, where it will meet and join
a line now being built southwark from Fort
Garry: It commands the eastward-bound
freight and travel of the British settlements in
Manitoba, and also of the Hudson's Bay Com
pany. 1t is also the outlet of a large portion
of the grain grown in Minnesota.
When the contracts for this season are COM
pleted, the Company will have a 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-
Il Unn1 the nOI1nt who're fhn railway atrIEQ1 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 the trade of
these upper waters.
there will be direct communication, east and
west, by rail and river, from Lake Superior, in
longitude 80 degrees, to the p%opulous districts
in Western Montana, in longitude ITO 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 re-
gion. Settlers have already applied for more
than a quarter of a million of acres. The Com
| pany has already begun the cancellation of it's
/ seven-thirty first mortgage bonds by the pro-
Deeds of its sales of land, and Is accomplish
ing its great work with the utmost success
and economy.
There is a 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 Sc
cured a tract in Clay county, Minnesota, of
1850 acres, directly on the line of railway.
The intended settlement is to be named
Yeovil, after a town in the west of England,
whence the majority of the colonists will
come. The first contingent of this colony
numbers about 1000; the remainder will fol-
low in 1873.
The bureau having in charge the Land De-
partment of the road has built and furnished
convenient rec~eption-houses for the free ac-
commodation of intending settlers and their
families while engaged in selecting their farms.
One of these is at Duluth, another at Brain
erd, where the road crosses the Mississippi,
and a third at Moorhead, at the crossing of
the Red river. Emigrants used to trundle
p~rairies, and bivouac where the night found
them. 1t is quite different now. They are
carried in comfort to the very sites of their
future homes; and the organization of the
imposition or spoliation from the time they
leave their old homes across the water till
they begin the foundation of their new ones
under the sunset. Every able-bodied anG in
dustrious man and woman who comes hither
makes the nation richer and contributes to
the general prosperity, and in this view the
condition and prospects of the road are a
source of legitimate congratulations.
CARLoTTA, ex-Empress of Mexico. will
leave a fortune of $5,000,000, to be in
herited by her brothers, the King of
Belgium, and the Count of Flanders. |
This she inherited from her father,
Leopold L. of Belgium.
The SUCCESSFUL PHYsrcIAN.-Dr. j.
Walker is achieving an eminent dis
tinction as a benefactor of his species. |
Some stigmatize all patent medicines
But DR.. WALKERS CALIFORNIA VINEGAR
BITTERs have the Endorsement of the
medical profession. The editor can
conscientiously and cordially recon-
mend the medicine, because he knows
he has found great benefit from its use.
For nearly twenty years he has suffered
from arrangement of the stomach. And
though the disease has become chronic,
he has already obtained great relief
from this remedy.
A physician left at death a large vol
carefully sealed, and supposed to contain
a fund of medical knowledge. On being
opened, it was found to contain only this sim
pie advice: keep your head cool, your feet
and your bowels OPEN" But there is
d NAOlo fO1uuIo LII GIlS uldAIIu. VINEGAR BIT
TIERS act as a mild cathartic, leaving the sys-
tenn in a healthy condition.
R. 81. Mcdonald, an experienced druggist,
with DR.. Walker, is a man Of thor
ough integrity and practical knowledge of the
art of compromising medicine. They have a
medicine, and they know how to
bring it to the knowledge of the public by jul
Them our hearty Endorsement and bid lem
.od-speed in relieving the ills to which hesh
Is heir.-Lockooood Unionist, Dec. 20, 1870.
CORN CoBs are an article of merchan-
disc in request at Paris, and several
New England firms gather them for
After saturation with tar
resin they are used for kindlings.
WE often see a large stock of cattle
which do not seem to thrive, and come out
: spring poor" all for want of something to