The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1883-05-29
I'ELEGRAPHIC
NORTHERN PACIFIC.
Booming the Country Through
Which it Runs.

ST. Paul, Mimi, 27-The Globe will
publish the following interview on Mon
day: Colonel Lam bson, of the North
ern Pacific, returned last evening from
an extended trip over the line Of the road.
de has been 10 Portland, returning from
that point to Helena with President Viii
lard, and during his absence made care
full observations Of the road, the ecu try
tributary to it and its apparent
prospects. He found similar activity,
though in less degree, on the Pacific
Coast in reference to emigration ana set
Element IS is seen further east, and an
equal confidence in the agricultural re-
sources of the country as in Dakots.
Cities on the Puget Sound he represented
Gs increasing rapidly in population, and
attracting great attention, So Is also
Portland. Real estate at all these points
has doubled in value in the last eighteen
months as in Portland and Seattle. Most
of the agricultural settlers new going into
the Pacific Northwest are taking up
lands shout the river. Farming lanes
there are OF superior quality, and COM
mand higher prices than in Dakots, the
land sales there during April exceeding
those In the latter territory. WheH the
road ia completed he thinks there will be
large movement of immigrants into the
wheat-growing region sof Washington
Territory. Montana, he says, is
receiving large accessories to its
mining and farming population,
and drawing the attention Of
very mgny capitalists who are investing
in stock ranches. A disposition to take
advantage of the grazing resources there
to be found is prominent feature of the
country's development. Young cattle
cannot be purchased in Montana and
stock is consequently obtained from the
east. He visited Butte City, where min
ing interests are active. As o mining
camp it gives every evidence OF greater
permanence and future development
than Leadville in its best day. The
veins are true fssure veins. yielding
largely of copper and silver and asssying
we'll. There are now nine large smelters
in operation there, and as these do not
supply the demand new smelter is in
progress of construction by one of the
mining companies, that will have cap
acity Of smelling 500 tons per day. Some
Of the veins are thirty to fifty feet in
width, and developed in depth 900
feet. Helena, he says, is very active and
shows the effects Of railroad building.
The company securing 500 acres of land
there for depot aud town purposes, that
city, he thinks, will remain the metrop-
oils of Montana. Bozeman in the Gala
tin valley, is growing rapidly in populs-
ton and will remain fixed business
centre. The same can be said of Living
stone and Fellows one Valley. In Da-
kota the region west of the Mlssouririve
has been rapidly settled and numerous
prosperous towns are sprin ing up along
the road. The railroad is now completed
within twenty-five miles of Helena from
the east and but 1876 miles OF
track remain to be laid. This will be
covered and the road finished by the
middle of August, and thrown open to
the public by the first of September. The
branch line to Yellowstone National
Park is nearly graded and the line will
be completed in July.