The Kenosha telegraph. [volume] (Kenosha, Wis.) 1860-1888, 1879-06-19
The New Northwest. Z

,o In long review of the condition,
prospects and possibilities of the vast
and comparatively undeveloped coun-
try lying to the north and west of Min
neapolis, Mimi, the northeastern
Miller says that the Northern Pacific
railroad passes nearly through the CEN
ter of the finest wheatgreglon on the
face of the earth. Nearly 800 miles
| further north another great trans-conti-
mental railway is being constructed, and
our Canadian neighbors even contem-
plate building a railroad having it's
northern terminus on the shores of
| Hudson bay. It will thus be seen that
to the north and west of Minneapolis
is q vast and productive agricultural
region, extending far up into the Brit
ish possessions on one side, and losing
itself in the mountains of Montana on
the other. 1t is capable of producing
wheat enough to supply the world, and
the water powers of Minnesota alone
are capable of converting the larger
part of its product into -four. 1t en-
braces within it's limits immense forests
of pine and hard wood, and miles of
iron, copper, silver and gold. Nature
has provided in abundance the elements
necessary to the support of great pop
ulation, and the population is now
coming. 4r@4Y r, id1 r4y0
\ It is only within the last few years
that q systematic effort has been made
to develop this valuable section of the
n of ;opo1 sdoY,,o;,,s Ill., u ee,,,oooc, ~ ~ =
pioneer settlers has been such as to at
tract the attention of others seeking
homes in the West, and the stream of
immigrants thus started has suddenly
swollen to gigantic proportions. Last
year the settlers poured into, Western
Minnesota and Eastern Dakota by
thousands; this year they are coming
by tens of thousands. AID yet only q
1.-THE of the magnificent wheat lands of
the western portion of this State are
under cultivation, and the sod of the
greater part of Dakota's fertile prairie
is unbroken. There is steady exodus
from the eastern part OF this State and
from Wisconsin, and other States, of
young men and old men, TO the prom
ised land" which, if it does not literally
flow with milk and honey. does promise
an abundant harvest and a competence
to those who. are willing to work hard
and wait patiently.
It cannot be doubted, the Miller re-
marks in another connection, that this
great accession to the wheat growing
territory of the United States will have
a marked influence on the milling in
.dustry of the country. With an abun-
dant supply of breadstuffs prices must
rule low, and the margins in -four man
ufacturing be small. Every effort of in
ventive skill will be made to cheaper
the manufacture and better the pro-
duet. The inevitable result must be
that the making of wheat into -four will
be done in large Mills employing i'm
mense capital, and that the class of
small combined merchant AMI custom
mills will become thing of the past.
The present high standing Of spring
wheat -four, which many have thought
and some have hoped would be lost
with the exhaustion of the Minnesota
wheat fields, will be maintained through
the superabundant supply of the choic-
est kinds of hard wheat from the fields
now being opened Scie7ptiic amer
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