The Superior times. [volume] (Superior, Wis.) 1870-1912, 1881-11-26

desirable. Leaving the shores Of Lake Su
miles to the eastern base OF the Rocky
Mountains, through fcitile and beautiful
country, every square ..ile of which VII
sustain dense population. producing wheat,
rye. corn, barley potatoes, and grass of a
superior quality and in great abundance.
Here the mountains are crossed at an cleva-
tion two thousand five hundred feet less
than o.. the Central Even on this mount.
all ous section there is much fine timber and
excellent wheat lands, while the grades are
not more difficult than some of tn ose on tie
Baltimore aud Ohio. Here the mountains
are so low that the miners have actually
conducted the waters of the Missouri across
the divide in little bitches. Through the
Cascade Range, just enst Of the sound,
which it was feared might prove a serious
obstacle the recent accurate surveys have
de veloped three passes, either of which is
entirely feasible, and the summit of the
ntuuIe Ut ass IL lH'Cc
thousand feet above the sea.
The SHOWS on these up!ands, unlike those
on the same range a few hundred miles
further south, are never m )re thaa two and
r half feet deep. They do not fall soft and
pack hard, but dry and light, presenting nc
difficulty to the snow plow. Great lines o
railroad are now in operation in various
parts of the world where the SHOWS are
eavier and the climate far more severe
! than upon this. From point on line with
! Fort Laramie to the Pacific nature has pro-
vided the tepid winds of the ocean, and
numberless boiling springs, which make the
atmosphere milder and warmer that 1t il
eight or ten degrees further south. This
road passes through no vast sage plains OF
sandy deserts, bnt through country every
where propitious, everywhere inviting, either
to the graf producer or stock raiser, whose
most ungenal PORTIONS sustain animals in
winter upon grass alone. 1t is interSected
by four great ma avigable rivers. 1t abounds
in beautiful lakes and streams of pure
water, teeminS with fish and wild fowl. When
we add TO the landscape grandeur of these
boundless and luxuriant plains, agreeably
diversified with water, wood and hill, the
prodigal yield of food for man and beast,
which is there promised to the settler, it
would seem that in no land under the sun
can the immigrant find more charming
| hOmc.
Whe this road strikes the Red river of
! the North, in & e neighborhood OF Fort
Abercromb'e, it will receive the trade OF
/ that stream which flows north into Lake
" Winnipeg, body Of water as large as
/ Lake Michigan. Into the same lake falls the
! Saskatchewan a magnificent stream which
drains the British territory from the Rocky
Mountains to the Great Slave Lake, and
/ giving with the-Red river and the lake it.
self continuous navigation OF over two
thousand miles in length. whose outlet must
/ he over this road and through Lake Supe rlor.
/ Again. when it reaches the great bend ofthe
Missouri. about four hundred miles from the
west end of LAX" Superior, thousand miles
! Of that mighty stream to the north alone,
; from Fort b 'nton to the point OF crossing,
! immedi lately becomes itS tributiry. In short,
were we to state all or half the grand tac's
which favor the enterprise in hand, the pro
digious sum of that which is possible and
NAV be accomplished would startle the int
agination. Out of the territories OF the
| United States it seeks to develop, eleven
great States will be added to the Union con-
tanning some OF the richest mining distlict'
on the continent. Montana, Idaho, and
Dakota gives "a yet but a bare promise OF
the future. While, politically, the British
Possessions are the property of another
choose to make them go and this fact is
one of stupcudous Importance. whether we
consider their extent, their natural caDabili-
ties or the trade they are destined to main
tain. From tie British line to the source ot
the NJ cb ehze stretches magnificent wheat
country, thousand miles in breadth, much
OF it open prairie and ready for the plow.
Lake Superior projects into the far North
west several hundred miles further than any
other navigabe water, and at its head there
will be seen city rivaling any of those
which in the ages gone by have enjoyed she
commerce Of the East before it. West ard
northwest of it the mighty ares we have
descrined, nexhaustib BILE in its minerals and
its agricultural productiveness, will pour i'll
unimaglned wealth of exchanges into anC
through it. With fifty bushels of wheat &c
the acre, as we find it on the Sask katchewsn
what may not be predicted of the point
, which, by geographical necessity, is tc
handle the products of region 30 vast
Here will be largest grain elevators eyel
seen. and that trade which has built 81
, many hourIshing cities will build anotheI
f where nature has made a Lepot for the mos
extensive grain-growing country on thu
globe. In the Bay of Superior, at the mouth
| of the ST. Louis, we have the largest harbo
, on the lake land locked and perfectly shelf
cred. Itnow admits lake ats.of the heavie> I
tonnage, and TO what extent it may bt
artifcaly improved we do not know, but al
appropriation for this purpose was made b.
, the last Congress. city on the point o
land formed by the St. Louis and tn
Nemadji has an elevation of thirty four feet
t and will possess nearly forty miles of waite
frontage, where vessels may discharge thei
freights on al, the four sides of a square
The distance to St. Paul, the centre o
D Northwestern railways, is only hundre
t thirtv-fve mile, while from Chicago it il
over three hundred fifty, and when you ar
at Chicago YOU are no nearer to Europe o
the Atlantic ports than when at Superie
u City. Various railroads are rCiected or i
, course of construction TO connect the Uppe
N ssouri with the head of the lakes, and tn
: work on tue St. Paul end of the ST. Pau
e and Superior Road is rapidly progressing
Y In view of the fact that we are an essen
TALLY pioneer people, we plant and bull
wherever nature permits, and especsll
o where she invites, and that we are annuali
t reinforced by an increasing proportion c
= immigrants from all the noithen. latitude
t,of Europe peculiarly fitted for the settle
II ment OF the Northwest, is is fair 20 presum
n that this generation will see complete
what We have only family sketched-th
commerce of Asia and Europe passing owe
II a grand highway connecting the Atlant
r and Pacific, Lake superior and Puget Sount