Mower County transcript. [volume] (Lansing, Minn.) 1868-1915, 1872-11-14
Present Condition or the North Pacific
Railroad.

1t Is announced that by the middle OF No
vember this new road will be completed to tho
Missouri River, 49, miles west Of Duluth. This
Will be an addition OF 200 miles since Spring.
Trains have been running daily between Du--
lntl, and the Red River since April last, and
nov rolling stock il rcady to equip tho oxtcn-
sion.
On the Pacific sitlo in Washington Territory
small section Of IS miles has boon some
will DO completed bcfolo tho close Of tho sca-
! son. Adding tho completed portion on the
| Pacific sido to tho Eastern section, it gives
| total of SIT miles Of track laid in little more
| than two years from tho commencement Of
| voar in making tho surveys and deciding on
tho host lilic through the forest region arc
| considered, tho result is marvellous, and
| attcsts tho energy with which tho work IL
pushed forward. Some idea OF the work &C
| complisllcd will be conveyed bv stating that
tho finished portion of tho road in November
! will exceed III length the Now York Central,
with all its lateral and branch lines included
| Besides the actual construction, the work Of
surveying ard locating tho ontirc limo across
tho continent has ,proccedc! with vigor: The
exploring parties have fought few scattering
Indians, but have carried their surveys sue
cessfully to tho Yellowstone. Tho portion
OF tho road now in operation has a largo and
increasing local traffic. 1t intcrsccts tho Rod
River at Moorhead, from which point u new
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valley to Pembina, whore it will meet and
Join line now being built SOU Inward from
| Fort Garry. 1t commands tho eastward bound
freight and travel Of the British settlements
in Manitoba, and also of the Hudson's Day
Company. 1t is also the outlet of large Dor
| ton Of the grain grown in Minnesota.
! Whom tho contracts for this season arc COM
pletod, tho Company will havo a permanent
business in the great traffic of tho Upuor Mis-
souri, River, with all tho Government trans
portation in the Northwest. few miles be-
yond the point where the railway strikes the
is navigable for steamboats, for 200 miles of
water way from the railroad crossing to Fort
Benton. At the loot Of the Rocky Mountains,
III Western Montana. nearly forty steamers arc
employed during the season in the trade of
these upper waters.
In April next. at tho opening of navigation,
thorc will be direct communication, cast and
| west, by rail and river, from Lake Superior, in
longitude % degrees, to the populous districts
IN Western Montana, in longitude 10 degrees.
through the passes Of the Rocky Mountains to
that portion Of tho Columbia River whence it
| il navigable to the Pacific.
Tho finished sections of ROAD entitle the
Company to about ten million acres of land,
granted by tho Government, constituting an
area about twice the extent of Massachusetts,.
Ten million contiguous acres belonging to the
GovernmenC arc at the same time rendered
habitable and salable. The lands arc situated on
| either side OF the line ami principally con-
sists Of excellent farming land, with the pro-
| ductivo soil characteristic Of ali the prairie
region. Settlers have already applied for more
! than quarter Of million of acres. The
Company has already begun the cancellation
OF its seven-thirty first mortgage boads by the
proceeds OF its sales of land, aud IL accom-
pllsh'ng its great work with the utmost sue.
cess and economy.
There q n ut a la ~
the tenant farmer class from England in the
coming Spring. One colony alone, recently
formed there, through its pioneer agents, &C.
cured tract IN Clay County, Minnesota, Of
1S5 900 acres directly on the line OF railway.
The intended settlement is to be named Yeo-
vii, after q town in the West of England,
whence tho majority Of the colonlsts viii
como. The first contingent of this colony
numbers about 1900; the remainder will fol-
low in 1873. !,
The bureau having in charge the Land De-
convenient reception-houses for the free &C.
commodation OF intending settlers and their
families while engaged in selecting their farms
One Of these is at Duluth, another at Brain
erd, where tho road crosses the Mississippi,
| and third at Moorhead, at the crossing OF
| the Red River. Emigrants used to trundle
| With thor ox-carts over forlorn and desOlatc
| prairies, 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 and in
dustrious man and woman who comes lithcr
| mekes the nation richer and contributes to
the general prosperity, and in his view the
| condition and prospects of the road arc q
source OF legitimate conSratulation.