Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1878-07-08

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the st. Paul s. Pacific--ImportantE xten-
sion of the st. Paul g. Sioux City---West-
ward, Ho by the Southern minnesota
The Hastings s. Dakota Strikes Out for
BIG stone Lake---The Hudson & River |
Falls, Rochester g. Northern, Eyota &
Plafnview, and other Rail Enterprises. |
Minnesota, the Empire State of the great
West What world of significance there is
in the term. Here, in the northwest corner
Of the aggregation of States, with their
varied climates and productions, forming the
American Union, and where but little more
than two decades ago the Indians with the
wild game of the prairies and the forests
we're almost the sole possessors here where
but sixteen short years ago Brown and con-
tiguous counties. now the center of teem
ing population, was depopulated by an
Indian massacre and war; here where
for four years in succession myriads of 10
Gusts laid waste the fields Of the husbandman,
bringing distress and poverty in their wake,
to-day is one of the most prosperous
Of States, and with the brightest future be-
fore it of any State in the Union.
FORTY MILLION BUSHELS OF WHAT
in 1877, when just recovering from the
erasshopper scourge. Forty million bushels,
with large part of the fertile prairies and
valleys of the State untouched by the hus-
bandman. What visions of happy, prosper
GUS homes the words carried to the occupants
of worn out farms and idle mechanics of
the East and the old world and, though the
bugbears of ''frontier,'' "cold and inhospit-
able climate ''Indians," etc., have been
iterated and reiterated as upon "a harp of a
thousand strings and without organized eff
fort to attract immigration, not less than a
hundred thousand people, upon low estimate,
have already, this season, came, saw and oc-
cupied the ''promised land.' Elsewhere in
this issue of the GLOBE, is given the land
sales of the Northern Pacific railroad COM
pany for the month of June, and also for
the six months from January l to July l.
1873. The aggregate of these sales is $780,
987 acres In connection with
this report is also given
the business for the same time of the three
land offices in the northwestern section OF
the State--Fergus Falls, Detroit and Fargo
The lands taken through these Offices arc
under the homestead, presumption and tim
Der culture acts, and are necessarily by act
ual settlers. The aggregate of entries il
these offices is $4,000, and represent at
least 10000 new settlers, the present
season, in the northwestern sec
ton of the State alone The business O.
the land Offices for the southwestern section
of the State has been nearly, if not equal,
large. The two statements above given shov
1,233,787 acres of land actually sold, OF en-
l.. - 4, -
the northern and northwestern sections o
the State alone. The sales by the st. Pau
& Sioux City railroad company, given il
Fridays GLOBE, in the same time, wer
127O66.17 acres. The sales of the st. Pau
81 Pacific company have not yet been full
made up, but will aggregate about 1872, 90
acres. Here we have sum of total Of l ,472
s5S acres of land actually sold by the rail
road companies named, or taken under tn
homestead laws out of the three land office
mentioned above. The business of th
other offices in the State will aggre
gate at a very low estimate tina
of the three offices named, making a gran
aggregate of 1884 1858 acres thrown open
cultivation this year, and the great bulk c
which has been already entered upon fo
that purpose. How general this actual oe
cupation has been, and the immense amour
year, our own citizens, we venture to say
but feebly comprehend AS a slight indica
ton, we will mention the town of Hancock
Stevens county, on the main line of the ST
Paul IL Pacific, where 5000 acres of ney
breaking has been done, from which will b
produced another year, with an ordinar
season, 100000 bushels of wheat w
might extend these evidences of future great
ness for Minnesota to much greater lengt
from this one point, and also include rel
erence to the great water-powers, and othe
elements of wealth SO abundant
supplied, but the objects of the presen
article will not admit
OUR RAILROADS.
The rapid development of Minnesota
largely due to the wisdom which bestowe
grants of lands upon the pioneer railroa
organizations of the State then territory
and more recently upon the Northern Pacif
company. Under the stimulus of thes
grants, the railroads of this State have bee
the pioneers leading the way from the Mis-
sissippi river on the east across the State t
its western boundary, from st. Paul north
ward to Duluth and southwark to Iowa, Mis-
souri,, and beyond. The era Of hard time
found many of these enterprises incomplete,
and for several years but little has been don
toward their completion. With returnin
prosperity, however, there has been a gener,
resumption of railroad building in all part
of the State, both in the extension of ur
completed lines and upon new enterprises,
brief resume of which is here given.
THE ST. PAUL & PACIFIC.
Undoubtedly the most important railroa
enterprise to st. Paul, and the northern
portion of the State is the S
Paul & Pacific main and branc
lines. The main line has alread
been completed through to Breckenridge o
the Red river, and by branch connected wit
the Northern Pacific and st. Vincent exter
sion at Glyndon, the company operating tn
extension TO Crookston. The distance fro,
Crookston to St. Vincent is seventy-fiv
miles, for twenty-eight of which the trac
has been ironed since 1872. Work ha
already been commenced putting this trac
in shape, and contracts let for ties
and the iron for the remaining dis
lance by Manager Farley, who proposes t
have the line completed between October 1
and November l.
At st. Vincent connection is made wit
the Pembina branch of the Canadian Pacific
already graded to Pembina, Is miles, read
for the steel rail, about half of which ha
already been delivered, while the balance i
being forwarded from Canada via Duluth an
Milwaukee as rapidly as possible, so that tn
completion of this line ready for use at abou
the same time as the extension line is no
doubted. At any rate, Manager Farley i
confident that by the 18th of Novembe
trains will be running from st. Paul to For
Garry, Manitoba, 485 miles away.