Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1882-12-16
A NATIONAL WORK.
THE GREAT PROGRESS md EARLY
COMPLETION OF THE NORTH
EIsN PACIFIC.

Through Trains by Next July--The City OF
Livingston at the Gate OF the Noun
fains--I.s Great Natural Advantages and
ITS Wonderful Growth--Lr0n, Coal, Gold
Silver, and Timber Make the Basis for
the Coming City.
Winona Republican.
The rapid progress of the Northern Pa
cific railway and its potent influence upon
the trade and prosperity of the upper Mis-
sissippi valley has been several times re-
ferred to in the columns of the Republican.
In connection with the growth and pros
perity of Winona, as we'll as other cities in
the valley, that influence can scarcely be
too greatly emphasized by our citizens.
We are certain to have at least two impor-
tant connections with this the greatest of
all the transcontinental highways; and the
commerce which must inevitably fow be-
tween this prolific valley when the greatest
river of the Northern hemisphere shall
have been connected with the greatest
ocean on the earth, by railway with the
shortest line and the easiest grades, must
surpass the calculations even of the most
sanguine. Let it be remembered that this
great valley is the garden of continent,
while the mountain ranges to the westward
contain the mineral bonanZas of the world
These two prime factors are, therefore, the
compliments of each other. The miners
and mouptaineers must have the grain, the
pork, the tobacco, and the cotton goods Of
the valley: while the denizens of the valley,
the builders Of great cities, OF palatial
steamers, and colossal railway lines, and
The producers Of all the staples Of life,
must have the silver, GOLD, copper,ircn and
coal that have slambered for ages in the
rock-ribbed hills which flank the shores Of
the ocean that separates and yet unites the
Orient and 0ccident--the ancient and the
modern civilization. The exchanges of
products which must take place between
the millions of people placed in these two
Complementary physical and social rela-
tions, cannot be otherwise than immense
in their volume. And when we take into
account the fact that the ocean currents,
those vast marine rivers which bear upon
their bosorns the commerce Of two great
hemispheres, impiDge upon our coast at
the points selected as the western termini
of the Northern Pacific system, we shall
only begin 10 grasp the problem of the re-
Iations which must be established and
maintained between the people Of the Mis-
sissippi valley and the teeming populations
of our western slope and the vast steppes
and fiuvial basins OF the Asiatic continent,
whose rivers iii turn pour their floods of
wealth, as we'll as of water, into the great
Pacific reservoir.
1t is now definitely announced that the
final connection between the eastern and
western sections of the Northern Pacific
will be consummated by July 1, 1888, and
that through trains will be running by the
LIST of September following. A most i'm
portant step, marking the progress of the
work, and indicating the farsighted sa-
gacity of the gentlemen now in charge of
this enterprise, mas recently been taken in
the location at the ''Gate of the Mountains
of the future city of Livingston, Montana.
This place is at the last crossing of the
far famed Yellowstone river. A few facts
concerning the location and its surround
ings, its possibilities and the comprehen-
,sive and liberal plans OF the company re-
specting it, will doubtless prove of inter
est to our readers.
Livingston is situated upon the main
line of the road at its junction with the Ma
tionaI park branch, now under construction
and to be completed as rapidly as men
and money can effect it. 1t is expected to
be finished by July 1, next. The town is
located upon a beautiful plateau that
slopes gently from the base of the noun
tains to the river, at the margin of which
the ground is from fifteen to thirty feet
above the water line. In the immediate
vicinity there are inexhaustible supplies of
iron, coal, gold and silver, with timber,
principally pine and fir, on the slopes of
the mountains. Spur tracks are being run
to the coal deposits, which are distant only
four or i've miles. The only lime stone
deposits between Lake Superior and the
mountains, on the line of this road, dis
lance of more than 1000 miles, are found
in abundance here. The manufacture Of
lime must therefore become most i'm
portant industry. Rich quartz and placer
mines are found in abundance on the south,
the latter in Emigrant gulch. Livingston
Is located in the great bend of the Yellow
stone, where the river, from an almost di-
rect northerly, turns to an easterly course.
The lower or third canon is only thirteen
miles from the town site. The scenery
here is sublime and picturesque in the e1-
treme. From the east, Livingston is ap-
preached on the railway at grade of only
twenty-six feet to the mile. This is the
western terminus of the Yellowstone di-
vision. and the eastern terminus of the
mountain division of the railway. From
this point the road asceEds through Boze-
man pass to Bozeman, thirty miles distant.
at grade of considerably more than 100
feet to the mile. The temporary line now
being constructed is said to run On a grade
of more than 200 feet to the mile. But
this will be greatly reduced in the perma-
nent structure.
The Yellowstone National park lies due
south of Livingston, and of course this
will become the hating and resting place
for thousands of tourists from all parts of
the world who will flock to this, the great
est of the worlds wonderlands. The river
here dashes down from its mountain alti-
tudes at a descent of fifteen or twenty feet
10 the mile; the water is cold, clear as crys-
tal,and well stocked with the finest of trout.
Before the town was laid out, it is stated,
there were 1000 people living upon the
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