The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1883-09-09

rejoice 10 know, came, 100, out OF nhnkrupt-
@. and Is to-day swelling new fortune,
The faithful friends OF the road stuck fast
TO II in It's adyersity, put up more money, {
aud alter awhile the work was again started |
on both sides of the Continent. And then,
when later the skies frightened all round,
outside capital once more took courage,
new life and new blood came, and at last
we are here.
IL is great day look back TO the
time when you could count the friends OF
the Northern Pacific almost on the fingers
of your two hands, and now behold the
triumph OF their faith. Now every body
can come and see this Is the best line across
this Continent, unequaled In its variety OF
resources. With magnificent wheat fields,
with cattle on thousand hills, with mines
IN Its mountains and raviues, with an as
founding wealth OF timber, as YOU will see
lurtner on, on which In time this whole
country will have 10 depend. who can doubt
the futureg Everything In these respects Is
vet in the very infancy OF development
Then, Us TO scenery, you have had ataste OF
IL. he prepared Tor still greater things rs
YOU approach the Pacific coast. And rs
Tor climate, bear In mind Il Is in the regions |
where you have Ice and snug winters you
will find the toughest muscles, the most !
vigorous brains, aud the most earnest
homes. SO, putting all things together,
who can fail TO see that this great new
highway is TO be marked all along
with prosperous uscommunitles, With schools,
churches and high civilizations Who can
fail TO see that it brings psrmsnent peace
With tho Indians; that No more Clusters are
to be killed, no more regiments TO be wiped
out: that new states are TO come here, new
power and new wealth, and q new bond OF
uuity 10 be added 10 our government,
aud a new route to be opened TO the worlds
commerceI
Things at the start are always, OF course,
A little crude. but all Is coming that has
been prophesied, And / wish all the
friends Of the enterprise at the beginning,
and all who stood by Il In the darkest days,
aud oil who have helped II on In the later
! years, could be here 20 see the great CON
summation. How that railroad 81. John,
! who SO early cried In the wilderness, Pre-.
) pare We the way Asa Whitney. would
/, have reioiced7 How, too, Governor Ste
yens, killed in the war, who surveyed this
7 route Tor the government In 1854 and 1883,
I and on all occasions and everywhere was
;. its championl How, too, the first president
! Josiah Perham, who labored hard and dieu
$ without the sight OF even the first spike
! How, TOO, the first engisoer, Edwin r
u Johnson, and the second engineer, W. NIL
:. nor Roberts, both men of the very highest
l. ability, and whose devotion to the enter
II prise snew no bnundsl But 4 cannot g(
y through the roll, From iirst TO last wneth
's here or absent whether living or dead, al
It should be gratefully remembered who, n
70 nfiicors or privates, have been In the lonl
t. fight which soes complete victory to-day
D. IL IA a roll OF honor, / cannot forhear say
ING that AT the head OF IL should stand th
Is name of Thomas Jefferson, who, In us
is sought TO have the Columbia explored b,
n the traveller Ledyard, and as president q
@ the United States, at the beginning OF tn
d. century, organized the world renowne
y expedition OF Lewis and Carke-name
Is never to be forgotten with the purpose {
u onening by the Missouri and Oolumbi
a. Rivers North American route 10 IL
Us dia.
ry Rut detain you too long. II, in col
~ olusion, may be allowed to allude TO m!
self IN whom this enterprise was for
81 many wears my work by day and my dreal
II. by pignt, and had, aud always will hay
ra' nv faith and love, | beg 10 say that a
profoundly and devoutly thankful tn
M nv ile has been spared 10 this great occ
.al sion, SO grateful am |, 50 grateful do
en- believe wo all are for what 1t Is for the, pa
'er as history, and for the future as prophec
on that | wish agreat mullituue OF thuse
ne whom the completion Of this Northe
II; PaclAo is henediction could be here
II day. and that we all could lit mp our vote
lre win one aecOrd and make these mountai
he echo back 10 us, "Praise God, from whom
ne blessings how.'
rse Although the first projected raili DAD II
lre across the Continent TO the Paolhc Goa
on the Northern Pacific Is the last to be 60
ole plcted. As long ago as 1881 Asa Whiln'
the a New York merchant, proposed 10 c,
ore gress to build u railroad ifom the head
ard Lake Michigan to the mouth OF the Colu
ieal bia. In case il would give him land grn
uce sixty miles in width, for the whole lenl
OF ol Tie line. This plan was embodied /
/ Is bill which was before Congress Tor nu
was ber of wears, aud In iSi1 came near passl
mes whitney may fairly be regarded as
ntic father oi the Northern faciho enterpr
s He trayersed the country from Main'
bid Louisiana, addressing public meetings
tent legislative bodies, and spent his entire
iern tuue In the work.
n or 1--WE routes 20 the Pacific. The north
ross route was surveyed by an expedition ur
ter lsnaoI Stevens, governor OF Washington
gov. rltory, who had been irregular army ON
wed His report was very favorable, showing
and the mountain passes were lower than IN
lden otnerportion OF the Rocky Mountain syst
theline entirely practicable, the grades II
thir- eraie. and the winter olllnate OF the oou
Ar TO much milder than bad generally
sen supposed, ,nta
Tue When the Union aud Central Paciiic {
illel, panies were chartered In 1861 stronl
the iort was made 10 obtain n charter ioi
who Northern line. II failed at the time, but
F, ac' revived In 1854 when the Union aud
iern. tral companies were before Congress a.
for LEGISLATION, subordinating tho goN
such ment lien TO their iirst mortgages.
there IostAu PERHAM ANDrHE CnARrKR.
Emi. The mnnWho osuoceededin getting the
ntral tar was Josiah Perham, who had orgal
ssola- a company, under the sanction OF tue
snow lature Of Maine, called The Pee
D the Pacific Railroad company,
pole, had attempted, IN
, how TO obtain the Union Paciilo charter 10
erior. cooperation. Failing IN thls' ne turn'
lief attention 10 the northern route, a.
lsed promIsing TO ask for no subsidy In
zenith or money from the government, he ol
, road ed In 1864 A charter, coupled with a
hcent GRANT inst double In area that given
Puget IiNio,, and Central Pacific companies
1T Is Northern Pacific grant embraces
Of the ternate sections OF land tor twenty
tinent ON each side OF the road In the state
tment for forty miles In the territories, wi
It i'm. additional ten miles on each SIDE ~
region demnlty limit, within which Janus ~
nave selected 10 oOmptnshNo w 'eN'e -
,urton settlers inside OF the original grant.
ham had been merchant in Maine
/ this Also In Boston, and was principally
,, and lor his success Ia organizing raiiro
le save cnrsion parties; in fact he was tho INV y,
Nv sol. of the cheap excursion system, he
lvern- In vain for nearly two wears 10 obtaii
10 be mi for the Northern Pacific oompai
ant. 70 which he had been elected president
!. But ohs,aole In the Say, beside the iende
,r anv. Tho puhIic mind TO regard the no
Ilue, Il belt Of states and territories rs a sem,
e road region, was chiefly clause which /
,ccessi. himself had inserted In the chart
4 lor a which prohibited the compaoy from
a sort raeing It's road or land grants, or
nrress. bonds. Perham's idea was that OF
/, The dred millions of the stock oil the @,
-, aud would at once be taken by popu
.inooln, scriptions. 900. .i .
present In December, leOo, no tu,neu
passed franchise to u syndicate OF New d
of the capitalists for barely enough 70
, In ua 1sh,a and did not live TO see the mrs