The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1883-09-07
THE GREAT NORTHWEST.
Opening a New World for the Use of Immi
grants with Agricultural Tendencies

Opening New World for the Use of Immi-
grants with Agricultural Tendencies.
This gigantic system opens to the world
one of the fairest sections of North America,
and invites not only the agriculturists and
stockmen of the Eastern United States and
Canada to its fair fields and pastures, but also
lays open and makes accessible a new world
to the peoples of Scandinavia and northern
Europe. Migrations follow lines of latitude,
or rather the natural isotherms, instead of
longitude, and the facilities now afforded by
the great Northern Pacific permit the peoples
of northern and central Europe access at a
cost of less than 800 to each individual to
any portion OF the farming and grazing lands
of the northern United States.
This region, while lacking the power to
produce in all its vast areas the great variety
of fruits, grains and vegetables peou-
liar to the central Mississippi valley
has already become famous for the
abundance of its cereal productions, as the
twenty-siX great Touring mills of Mime
apoliS, with a total maximum daily capacity
of o. 900 barrels, will attest. In 1882 these
mills consumed $4,000 600 bushels of wheat
sending -four not only to the Atlantic sea-
board, but TO every country of western
Europe often receiving and filling single
orders for from 10000 to $4,000 barrels.
Minneapolis and St. Paul lie on the eastern
border of the great wheat belt of the golden
Northwest, and the combined cities have a
population of nearly 200, 000 and do an an
nual business of over $3.50, 900, 900 in COM
merce and manufacture. The regions of
which they are the natural capital are per-
meated and made alive by the great natural
arteries, the Missouri and Yellowstone rivers,
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find their market by way of the Northern
Pacific.
Nov that the Northern Pacific is q fact &C
complished, the inviting regions it traverses
are not only easy of access, but the road also
adds another great through route to the
Pacific coast. The tourist from New York
or Europe can adapt his route across Amer
lea to the season of the year, taking the
Southern or Central Pacific in the winter or
early in the spring, spending few months
in California and Oregon, or even taking
twenty-days' excursion by the Pacific Coast
Steamship Company to British Columbia
and Alaska, seeing the icebergs and glaciers
of the Alaskan Archipelago and the sun at
midnight. These excursions are made every
summer in July and August. and are as
noveluas a trip to Norway, and cost includ-
ing berths and meals on steamship, but
$95 from Portland to Sitka and Juneau and
return.
FROM San francisco 10 IOrllanu Une us
lance is $40 miles, and is made tri-weekly by
steamer in sixty hours. Here is tie COM
mercial metrol oil s of the Pacific northwest.
Its population is $4,000. 1t is the greatest
railway center of the Pacific coast, and with
its lines OF ocean steamers to San Francisco,
Puget Sound, British Columbia and Alaska,
it is the grand terminus of a system of COM
munication which will completely develop
the entire region.
Returning eastward from Portland by way
of the Northern Pacific, in July or August,
the traveller may make his own climate. No
dust no torrid heat, but grand scenery and
every comfort. Like all well-ap-
pointed trunk lines the Northern
Pacific railway trains are simply
hotels on wheels Dining and sleeping
cars with palatial day coaches, are run on
every tram. The cars are of the latest
pattern, are supplied with steel wheels, steam
brakes and every means that will secure
safety and comfort. For seventy-fve cents