Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-05
At MinneapOLis.

The party were kindly escorted about the
city by the citizens, and took dinner at the
Nicollet.
While at the Nicollet Mr.. Austin, from the
the committee on resolutions, presented the
following resolution, which was adopted:
MINNEAPOLIS, Mimi. August 1, 1879. Hon.
81. E. Sargent, General Manager Nor ,hern Pa
cific Ra,lroad-DEAR SIR: The undersigned,
Toledo and Cleveland, having made the trip
over the Northern Pacific road from St. Paul to
Brainerd, thence to Bismarck, returning by
way of Duluth, desire first to express our ap-
p eciation Of the marked attention and UNI
form courtesy which we have received during
our journey from yourself and other officials of
the road.
corning the great section of country opeEed to
the world by the building of this road az to
enable us to form correct Judgment of its
merits, We have every where been aided by a
spirit of intelligent frankness on the part of
the officials of the road that has rendered our
Investigations both easy and pleasant.
Our information concerning the country
traversed by the Northern Pacific road already
obtained from recent reports, and exhibits of
Its products, had in a measure pre- pared us to
see some beautiful country. But we were
wholly unprepared to behold, az we have done.
such a vast extent of plains SO literally water
ed by small lakes and pure streams nowhere
surpassed in their beauty and fertility The
immense wheat and oat fields, producing a
minimum yield of twenty bushels of the
former and forty-fve bushels of the latter per
acre, unsurpassed in quality, is convincing
proof to us that the Northern Pacific road
traverses near the centre from east to . est of
what is destined to be the future great wheat
growing belt of North America. We are also
satisfied, from our investigation, that the
country along the line of the read all the way
from Brainerd to Bismarck is equally we'll
adapted for grazing and general agricultural
pursuits.
The beautiful face ef the country, the great
richness of its soil, with abundant supply of
unfailing lakes and streams. and the pure and
invigorating atmosphere, with readily acces-
sible market. both by direct railroad connection
to the East, and also by the crest water
thoroughfare through the lakes, st. Lawrence
river and Erie and Welland canals, seem to APP
pear at least as great if not indeed superior
advantages to any portion of the country to
those who are seeking homes for themselves
and families in the grand West.
The rapidity With which farms are being
taken and improved, and new towns are
springing up along the line of the road east of
the Missouri. where the church spire and
school house. those companions of civilizat, on,
culture and refinement are already visible
shows that this vast and beautiful region ia
being SO rapidly settled by an intelligent and
enterprIsing class of citizens from the older
Eastern States that its future growth and pros
perity ls already assured, and that it must at
no distant period become one of the most pro-
ductive and prosperous portions of the United
States. G. O. COFFIN,
SIMEON GILBERT,
b. Il. HOBART,
+. F. Brown,
MILTON GEORGE,
w. G. GRAY,
ROBINSON LOCKE,
D. R. AUSTIN,