Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1883-12-08

will soon be flooded. aud then il is likely
20 push on in somewhat diminished vol
ume into Montana. Idaho. Washington Ter
ritorv. Oregon and the Puget Sound region.
The question comes up az to the stability OF this
growth. There are those who hold that it ia a
speculative mushroom affair. and cannot be
maintained away up here to the north, close to
the Manitoba blizzard mills. But the same was
said of Chicago twenty years ago. when that
city had the effrontery to set I'D rivalry with
the solid wealthy Old bunker city Of St Louis
lie talk was then that st. Louis had such ex-
ceptional advantages Of position, geographical
ly. and near the junction of great ravigable
rivers. that ChicaGo.-away to the north of the
great central line Of western travel and bust
ss.-had no sort of show in the way Of rival
~. The growth of Chicago was declared to be
speculative bubble. kept ahoat for the time
oelnQ by borrowed eastern money, and the in
evitaole collapse. it was said. would soon leave
the aspiring city sort Of deserted village 10 it's
native swamps. But Chicago has gone on grow
INC IN this mushroom" way. and has so far sur
passed st. Louis In population aud business
prosperity that its rival has lost all interest in
the census reports.
THE ADVANCE OF THE "RUsTLERs."
The same restless. speculative people that
raised Chicago bodily out of the mud, and re-
created 1t again and again out Of the ashes. and
then pushed on further northwest to the Mis-
sissippi and leveled the hills anu filed up the
valleys to make room for st. Paul with It's busy
population Of so 900, and as soon as that task
was well under way moved step further north
and converted the great falls of St. Anthony
into mill-race to make Minneapolis the biggest
flour factory in the world. with a duplicate
population TO that of st. ul,-these are the
same 'rustlers" that are now overrunning
Dakota. building up railroad towns, river towns.
valley towns. and starting wheat farms raising
grain elevators. and preparing generally to
make that Territory fulfill its manifest des-
tiny OF supplying the larger part of the
ao.o00.0U bushels of wheat required annu-
ally 10 keep the Minneapolis mills going.
That job finished they will soon be pushing fur
ther west towards the Pacific coast Who cam
tell what limits to put to the growth of this new
northwest in the next twenty years with such
men to the front2 What DEVELOPMENTS they
Will make OF the great mining and grazing re-
gons nj Montana. of the vast bunch-grass wheat
lands OF central Oregon and Washington Ter
ritOry. OF the wonderful timber lands and grass
lands of the "Webfeet" country. west of the
Cascade Mountains, and what new Chicagos
they will build on the Columbia river on Puget
Sound. or away up Alaska way? Who can tell
Just where the line Of northern progress will be
drawn? Already the Northern Pacific has lost
Its distinction as the most northerly road. The
Canadian Pacific is making its way across the
continent some hundreds of miles vet further
north, p" here is the North, anyhow? To drop
into Pope:
Ask where's the North9 At York IT'S on the
Tweed, .
In Scotland at the Orcades: and there.
AT Greenland, Zembla, or the Lord knows where
C.