Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-09-01

Its passenger trains have all the improve
ments of the age, and supply passengers
with every essential of comfort in travel.
ing. Its extensive freight equipment has.
been kept equal to the extraordinary and
sometimes irregular demands resulting
from the rapid settlement of the country
and the production of immense crops for
which storage facilities along the
line cannot be adequately
provided. Withal, the service
of the company has been admirably or
ganized and has been steadily increased
and distributed as the road advanced to
completion. In this latter respect, espe-
cially, do we consider the management of
the Northern Pacific railway to be worthy
of admiration Its announced policy is to
keep Its faithful employees and officials and
TO reward good service with promotions,
That Is in part at least why its service is
as excellent as it is.
THE NORTHERN COUNTRY.
The building and operation of the,
Northern Pacific railroad has resulted in
proofs OF the resources of the country,
traVersed by this line, and knowledge of
It's climate, soil and water, which have dis
PEELED all the Illusions which existed when
Gov. Stevens began his survey and which
Mr.. Davis adroitly used in favor of the
southern route. There are no deserts and
but little of waste land. From st. Paul 10
about one hundred and thirty miles west
OF the Missouri the road is through an ag-
ricultural country which will ultimately be
closely settled by farmers engaged in
wheat raising and successfully Gull
tivating all crops of the northern half
of the temperate zone. The country along
the mountain section of the road, with ex-
ception of the river valleys and the bench
lands which may be irrigated, are chiefly
valuable for minerals, timber and extern
sive areas of grazing lands. In Washing
ton territory and Oregon there are extern
sive areas of valuable agricultural lands.
The business of stock raising in western
Dakota and northern Montana already
furnishes the road large business. The
mineral wealth of the mountain regions,
besides the precious metals, includes coal
mines in Washington which have an out
put of 1920 tons of hard coal daily, large
beds of bituminous coal N the Bozeman
range of Montana, and inexhaustible de-
posts of metal ores which will be shipped
over the road to smelling furnaces. The
road already has large lumber trade east
and west of the mountains. In short
the Northern Pacific country has the re-
sources for employing and maintaining a
dense population and giving the railway a
larger traffic than can be had for any other
of the transcontinental lines.
ST. PAUL ITS EASTERN GATEWAY.
Among the most notable acquisitions by
the Northern Pacific company during the
present year was its purchase of $50 acres
of ground for terminal uses within the
limits of this city, where the operating
headquarters of the company are located.
Here the company will have
connection with all the railway
lines of the south and east and here will
naturally tend the commerce of all the
country the road traverses. St. Paul has
grown with the Northern Pacific and is
prepared to meet all demands upon its
CAPITAL and the enterprise of its citizens.
1t is the eastern gateway of the new in
dustrial enterprise and its commercial
capital.