Daily globe., 1883-05-28
THE NORTHERN PACIFIC.

Return of Land Commissioner Lamborn
From Portland-Tho Condition of Affairs
Along the TranscOntinental Highway
Arrivals of the Grand Pacific and Mary
Morton-PersOnal and General Notes.
Col. Lamborn, of the Northern Pacific,
returned last evening from an extended
trip over the line of that road. He has
| been to Portland, returning from that
point to Helena with President Willard,
and during his absence has made careful
observation of the road, the country tribu-
tary tC it and its apparent prospects. He
found a similar activity, though in a less
degree, on the Pacific coast in the refer
enoe to emigration and settlement as is
seeen further east, and an equal confidence
in the agricultural resources of the coun-
try as in Dakota, The cities on Pu-
get sound he represented as
increasing rapidly in population and
attracting great attention, as also is Port
land. Real estate at all these points has
doubled in value in the last eighteen
months; in Portland and Seattle it COM
mands prices the same as in st. Paul.
Along the line of the Northern Pacific in
eastern Washington Territory Spokane
Falls is an active center for investments
in town property. Most of the agricul-
tural settlers now going into the Pacific
northwest are taking up lands about Wal
!awalla and in the great bend of the Co
lumbia river. Farming lands there are of
TN nd
prices than in Dakota, the land sales there
during April exceeding those in the latter
territory. When the road is com pleted he
thinks there will be large movement of
immigrants into the wheat growing region
of Washington territory.
Montana he says is receiving large ac-
cessions to its mining and farming popu-
lation, and drawing the attention of very
many capitalists who are investing in
stock ranches. The disposition to take ad-
vantage of the grazing resources there to
be found is so prominent feature of the
country's development, that young cattle
cannot be purchased in Montana, and
stock is consequently obtained at the east
He visited Butte City where mining inter
ests are active. AS a mining camp it gives
every evidence of greater permanence, and
of future development than Leadville in
its best days. The veins are true fssure
veins, yielding largely of copper and sill
yer and assaying 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 construc-
tion by one of the mining companies, that
will have capacity of smelling 500 tons
per day. Some of the veins are thirty to
fifty feet in width and developed to a
depth of 600 feet. Helena he says, is very
active, and shows the effect of railroad
building; the company having secured 500
acres of land there for depot and town
purposes, that city, he thinks will remain
the metropolis of Montana. Bozeman, in
the rich GaIlatin valley, is growing rapid
ly in population and will remain a fixed
business center. The same can be said of
Livingston and the Yellowstone valley.
In Dakota the region west of the Mis-
souri, river has been rapidly settled and
numerous prosperous towns are springing
up along the road. Within
the past two months more than one thou
sand entries of lands west of the Missouri
river have been made at the Bismarck
Office; Bellefield has been built up since the
colonel spassed through there in April.
Glenullin and New Salem have been set
tied within the past forty days, and each
contains a population of about 500. All
! the other towns show marked increase in
population. and settlers cabins are spring
ing up all over the country.
The railroad is now completed within
twenty-five miles of Helena, from the
east, he states, 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. With regard to the class of people
coming into country contiguous to the
Northern Pacific, the colonel says they are
unsurpassed in point of intelligence, and
are possessed of means to secure their per
manent establishment in the territory
The gentleman regards the outlook for
| good crops as never better, and is eloquent
in his descriptions of the advantages ac-
cessible to industry and enterprise in the
| territories.
Emigrant Agent Johnson, of the Mani
toba line, left for Winnipeg Saturday
night.
II. G. Davis, assistant general passenger
agent of the Manitoba line, has gone tc
| Wisconsin.
Trains on the st. Paul & Duluth road tc
White Bear lake yesterday, were comfort
ably crowded with pleasure seekers.
W. II. Dixon, of the Chicago, Milwaukee
& st. Paul, returned home yesterday morn,
ing from business sojourn in Chicago.
S. R. Simpson, of the Northwestern
Car works, came down from Saltwater
yesterday and went over to Minneapolis.
Incoming trains from the East yesterday
were noticeably Slight" The tide of sum
mer travel has not yet set in this direction
Oliver Wiswall, station agent Of the St
Paul & Duluth road at Cottage Park, who
was stricken with a hemorrhage Friday, is
pronounced out of danger.
W. S. Alexander, traffic manager of the
Manitoba line, has gone to Chicago to at
tend a meeting to be convened there to-
day for the purpose of, in some way, fixing
up cattle rates from eastern to northwest
ern points. The meeting will be attended by
Mr.. Alexander, Marvin Hughitt, A. G. Bird
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