Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-07-06
OUR NEW GROUND.

The Great Norrhwest-Ths Advantage to
Set.lers-Lske Minneronka-W inniper.
Moorhead, Fargo and Bismarck
[Dr. j. V. Shoemaker in the Philadelphia In
quirer.]
BISMARCK, d. T., June Is, 1SS2.--At
the close, of the National Medical
association the railroad companies of the
Northwest placed special cars at the dis
posal of the delegates and their families,
and have been showing our eastern aud
southern physicians all through this fer
tile and rich country. Saturday morn
ing, June 10, the st. Paul, Minneapolis
81 Manitoba Railroad company conveyed
our party to Minneapolis. After going
around and through that thrifty city we
were again seated in the cars in the after
noon, and were soon landed ON the banks
of Lake Minnetonka: A ride of half an
hour on the magnificent steamer City
of st. Louis enjoying the daz-
cling scenery on both banks
of the lake, brought our
party to Lake Park, one of the
handsOmest and most enchanting water
ing places that can be found in this coun
try. We .tarried here fer good fishing,
which we enjoyed very much, as bass
weighing five pounds were pulled in the
boats by many very inexperienced fisher
men. Sunday was passed in the most
pleasant manner, walking around the
lake and feasting on the beauties of ma
ture that surrounded the park on all
sides.
Early Monday morning we were off for
st. Paul, and in the evening of that same
day, through the courtesy of the same
railway company, were comfortably
seated in palace coaches bound for Win
nipeg. A night of agreeable and re-
freshing slumber, with a substantial
breakfast, and we settled down to admire
the prairies, over which we were
rapidly passing. Land stretched in
the unbroken plain as far as
the eye could see; at least, fifteen miles,
with here and there well titled farm
with fine and sleek cattle, grazing, as
the train swept on over one of the
smoothest and easiest riding roads over
which we had ever passed. We reached
the end OF our journey, Winnipeg, about
10 O'Clock Tuesday evening, June Is. A
more busy and active scene we had not
previously witnessed. The railway de-
pot was filled with emigrants from all
parts of the world, brought through at
very little expense and assisted by this
same railway company, which owes much
of Its success to Mr.. Hill, the Colonel
Scott of the west
We found all the hotels crowded, and
were compelled to spend the night in
our sleepers. The next morning, after
calling ON the United States consul
the governor of her majesty's domin-
ion, and the bishop, all of whom re-
ceived our party in the most courteous
and elegant manner, we drove around
the city, which IS built on the bank of
the Red River of the North, and observed
hundreds of houses being rapidly erected,
and thousands of new settlers living in
wagons and tents. The afternoon was
spent in examining the old fort and in 60
ing through the Hudson Bay company's
stores, which are large and filled with
products of all kinds. Furs of the finest
and most costly kind were the greatest
object of curiosity to our party. Our
| cars were attached to the evening train,
| and the next morning we had alighted at
| the junction of the Northern Pacific rail-
| way, the train was in waiting, and we
were soon on our way to the far West
Farm after farm was passed of the
| richest soil and cereal, with the finest
crops. That farm on the right, re-
marked one of the officers of the road,
| covering over one thousand acres, cost its
present owner, young man from the
| East, ten cents an acre ten years ago.
| The largest part, you will see, is titled,
has upon it a good crop, and is worth to-
day about thirty dollars an acre. Moor
| head, the limits of Minnesota, was an
| nounced, and we concluded to stop, re-
| fresh ourselves for the balance of the
| trip, and examine the surrounding
country. A good meal and bath at one
| OF the finest hotels we have entered since
leaving our good Quaker City, enabled
| our party to drive around and enjoy the
country. Through the kindness of the
superintendent we mounted an engine,
| and were conveyed about half mile on
the western bank of the Red river, which
separated Moorhead from Fargo, the lat
ter being the first and largest city in Da-
kota.
At Fargo we alighted and were driven
| around one of the most active, thrifty
| and busiest cities of the far West. A
night of rest and morning found our
party again On the road, under the care
vi tue SupeTlnIenucnt Oh Inc DaKOta QlVlS-
| ion of the Northern Pacific railway. 1t
was hardly possible to imagine ourselves
over $4,000 miles from Philadelphia on
the broad plains of the Western prairies,
being in a palace coach, surrounded with
all modern comforts, and travelling on
smoother and easier road than ony of the
Eastern railroads. The prairie over
| which we passed for miles was one smooth
and level country, having the richest soil
that can be found in any part of the
world. Now we would see a pretty
farm house, with its sturdy worker
| in the distance, turning up with his pillow
| rick, black soil, with here and there
long strip of healthy looking wheat peep
ing from the surface. Again we would
| ride for miles and see nothing but the
long and expansive prairie, stretching as
far in the distance as the eye could reach
Then we passed into the most lovely
valley, with rolling lands watered with
beautiful streams, at the side of which
fed some of the finest cattle, such as we
seldom see in the East. At short inter-
walls we stopped at large wheat farms,
which produced from one to four hum
dred thousand bushels last season, at a