The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1879-03-08
The March Of Civilization.

Canada is = shing on her Pac fc
Road, from Thunder Bay on the
North shore OF Lake Superior, TO
Winnipeg, the capital of Manitoba,
distance of over 400 miles, nearly
half of which is already completed,
and a large force will be employed
this year and mex. IN finishing up
the balance.
The 81. Paul & Pacific has com
pleted its connection between St.
Paul and Winnipeg, making Man
itoba now accessible at all seasons.
and greatly facil tating the rapid
settlement of the rich lands of this
Province, to which a heavy emigra-
tion is one of the certainties of the
season.
To the west of the Missouri river,
in the heart of Dakota, the North
ern Pacific Railroad will stretch
out a hundred miles of new extern
sion. a track has already been laid
across the ice of the Missouri, at
Bismarck, upon which it is intend
ed to pass over, during the present
month, $500 tons ofrai!s, now be-
ing manufactured and forwarded
from Sprir gfeld, Illinois, with the
accompanying cross-ties, splices,
and spikes, timber, etc, and a
working train for immediate use.
The ice being three feet thick, it
will probably afford safe road way
until spring. a steam ferry boat
will be constructed this winter for
transferring cars after the river
opens Eleven thousand tons Of
steel rails are TO be laid down du-
ring this season between Brainerd
aud Fargo, and the sound iron rails
at they replace, will be carried
forward for the new track bevond
the Missouri. These works Of i'm
provement and construction, togeth.
er with the heavy immigration, the
extensive farming operations, and
he growing traffic with the Black
Hills and Montana, will make the
Minnesota and Dakota divisions Of
the Northern Pacific especially
lively.
Several new steamers are being
constructe ! for the Upper Missouri
and I Yellowstone fleet, and there
are five up river boats hauled oul
on the marine ways at Bismarck,
TO winter and repair. Freighters
anticipate that tue river business
above Bismarck will employ this
season at least forty steamers.
The Utah Northern, mar ow
gague railroad, has been extended
hundred miles during the past
year. 1t is now in operation from
Ogden, on the Union Pacific about
$50 miles to Blacktoot, in the Snake
River Valley, and its managers are
said to be preparing to push on at
least fifty miles fur,her this year.
Mining in the Black Bills and in
Montana, progresses very saiistac
torily, showing a healthy and con
stantly increasing production. There
is a constant influx of settlers com
ing to stay. The Penobscot Mine,
near Helena, has yielded such rich
returns since its discovery year
or two ago, that its original owner,
who was previously y man Of no
means, is now offering to fund the
territorial debt of $1,000 and
carry it himself at SIX per cent. in
terest.
On the Pacific slope there are
similar indications OF prosperous
activity. Settlers are rushing into
Eastern w ashington with unex-
smpled rapidity. The whest lands
are highly productive, yielding
from thirty TO sixty bushels, and in
exceptional instances 100 bushels
per acre. Portland affords a good
export market, easilv accessible by
the Columbia river. A little mar
row gauge railroad, thirty miles
long, connecting Walla Walla with
the Columbia, and owned by one
man, had so mach traffic last sea
son, mostly wheat, that rs net prof
its for 1878, were said to be :l75,-
600. 1t has lately been purchased
by company, whose avowed pur-
pose is Immediate extension east
ward. The Northern Pacific is
said TO have III contemplation an
ear V commencement of its l'ne in
Eastern " ashlngton, developing a
wheat country that is even richer
than the famous Red River Valley