, 1881-07-17


}>is if anything more productive than the rest
Pacific last year to "a It the State fairs, IN.
even to Canada, where. by the way, an. ut
eessful show was made, by the product;s, o
Crow Wing County, which has so-eal1ee
sandy soil, really, composed Of finely
RuiyeFized and + fertile; r1Sk Hs,-oln powder tbr
Northern PACIFIC passes through Mon
tana, Idaho, Washington. and Oregon
at one place on ellis route is found the only
t bad spot along the Northern Pacific from the
Lakes to the Pacific Ocean. West Of Wal
)uIs there is a stretch Of land for about loo
| miles along the Columbia River, which the
accomplished engineer of the road, Gen. ALL
| dersO{l, admits comes near fulfilling his coll
! >ceptioM Of the Desert Of Sahara It is the
only place where the road is not bordered by
! the wiad. But Mt distance Of ten or fifteen
| miles on each side this desert is backed UP
by so1re Of the best wheat country i'll the
| worldt,:
| It " a strong statement. but it is made
carefMlly and by men who have made thor
| ollgh and conscientious study Of the whole
| ground. With the above exception, there is
| no waste land along the whole llne OF the
Northern Pacific.
Gen. Merrill. who recently. presided over
New York, has been stationed for years in
Montana, and pronounces it unhesitatingly
"BETrEts THAN DAKOTA"
Northern IdahO,~ where the r64u crosses it.
produces the best of wheat 0 Washington
and Oregon aro so rigla in their varied re-
bought tho Northern Pacific on the strength
Of what it had there, without seeing the east
ern part of the property.
There is no American Desert, there are no
Ul.ited States. West Of line drawn through
North Platte OIL the Union Pacific, Fort
I1arker,, on the Kansas Pacific, and Fort
larned, On tho Atchison, Topeka l. Santa
Re, there is 1000 miles ct desert, till the
passed. West Of this line there are 900 acres
ofInayafa liable land on the Uuion Pacific to one
acre OH the Northern Pacific. Farmers who
have ventured west OF the rai1l-belt Ill Kali
sas have had to repent in dust and drought.
Northern Pacific. It rained at Gtendive, on
the yellowstone, the night we reached it.
All through Dakota the farmers had had too
much rather than too little rain.
Ar interesting Typographical fact accounts
plains in Dakota and those in Nebraska,
Kansas. and the country SOUTH This north
ern country is in reach Of the chinook, or
Japanese trade winds, which profoundly af- |
feet the climate of Montana 4 most i'm
the northern and southern plains. Glendiye |
is =, 100 feet above the level of the sea- Den
yer is $500 feet above the sea. The North
erll Pacific does not rise as high as the Union |
pacitic-crosses the Rocky Mountains $50 |
IN lies west Of Glenuiye. In other~wortls, the
Northern Pacific ut the summit Of its pass
over the Rocky Munntains is only as high as
Denver at the foot: The country. towards
the south rises like roof. The Northern
Pacific
RUNS ALONG TUE EAyEs;
he Union Pacific is on the ridge. Toward
lie south the streams dry up aud become
sand rivers. All through Dakota the rivers
low perennially,. and Montana is as we'll
Satered as New England
orty miles east OF Red River. Let it extend
rom point about seventy-ive miles south
# the Northern, Pacific to the Canadian
boundary, distance Of rs miles. Push
| gu will then have traversed a district 40
niles east and west. by :22225 miles north and
0uth. IN 1t there are, after deducting the
Whole OF the Bad Lands, and 100000 acres
lore for streams and bluffs, 60.000,000 acres
t good wheat land, which, where it has
eel broken, never failed to
LAUGH WITH 4 HARVEST |
'hen tickled with q plow. This whole |
.gion has abundant rains and numerous
,rea1ns. The soil is ali unvarylng black
laln from one to fifteen feet deep almost all
II 'uea'a ,a ;Has 9y cay inese Is not an acre
S southern limits the Northwestern and st.
aul roads think 1t worth while to push
lelr lines with oil possible energy. though
ley have no land grant. The Manitoba
,nui1d parallel lines to the Northern Pa /
tic, north and south of it. These railroad |
I'll are not FOOLS They are builling these
'ads because they know that Dakota lands ! =
\ average better than those east of the
the great American desert Gen.