Daily globe., 1883-07-11

to make this great river navigable through |
out the season for boats of five feet draft. |
1t has been demonstrated by actual ship |
ments from our elevator TO Glasgow and |
Liverpool, that wheat can be spouted into |
barees. shipped down the Mississippi to |
New Orleans, and thence 10 Europe at less |
cost than by rail to the Atlantic seaboard. f,
Give to US what is by right ours, NJ eet
the Just claims of this great continental
river for improvement, and you viii. see
all the products of this vast new Northwest
concentrated at st. Paul to go down the
river in barges, or rail to the East at
freights regulated by the river.
What if it cost million or ter million
The enhanced value of the products of
Minnesota in two years would pay for It,
1t Is just claim TO which the federal
government must respond; claim which
should be persistertly urged by every rep
resentative in congress from the West un-
til it is conceded. No man is tit to repre-
sent the West in the national councils
who has not the sagacity to perceive
the importance of this river and the
courage to urge its claims, and l urge the
citizens of St. Paul henceforth to support
no man for congress who is not known to
be earnestly in favor of the improvement
OF the navigation of the Mississippi, and
willing to work in and out of season to &C
complish it.
Supplement our otherwise splendid
geographical position--our Capitalization
of railroe ds-our Pacific coast trade and
trade of China, Japan and Australia-now
almost IN our grasp-by river that will
float barges of five feet deep throughout
the season of igation-and st. Paul
will ten years hence have a population of
25O,OOO--and be ready then to march for
ward at ,apid pace TO still grander fu-
tUre.
COL. J. u. DAVIDSON.
At the conclusion of Mr.. Fairchild's re-
marks, there were load calls for Col. j. II.
Davidson, who, in response, said he would
heartily join in the many expressions of
praise of the elegance and completeness of
the steamer 'St. Paul. the finest boat by
all odds ever at the st. Paul Ievee. Being
financially interested in the line,
he had always opposed the construction
of these large frst-class boats, believing
that $4,000 put into brick and morta" in
ST. Paul would yield a much greater and
more certain return than it would if put
into boards, paint and machinery to float
the Mississippi river. But one portion of
the family had hobby for boat
building for the Upper Mississippi trade,
and so it was that the boats OF the
st. Louis & S.. Paul Packet company were
equal, if not superior, to those of any in
land water line in the country. Continu-
ing, he said that while these boats might
not carry a 1.-THE of the produce and the
freights of the great Northwest, the mere
fact of their being competitors
for the business operated to
regulate the tariff during the
season of navigation. Indeed, such Yves
the reduction of freight rates upon the
opening of navigation, that the merchants
OF st. Paul could well afford, as pure and
simple investment, to pay the total ex-
penses of such a line ont of their own
pockets.
Col. Davidson then referred to the near
approach OF the completion OF the North
ern Pacific railroad, which would
open up to st. Paul an area
grander and richer than Cortez dreamed
of when he set sail from the Spanish
coast for the undiscovered new world and
the road to India. For centuries the
trade of the Orient has enriched the
world It has been sought for and fought
for by England. France and Russia. To
secure it the Suez canal was built. But
by the construction of the Northern
| Pacific the commerce Of Japan and China
their silks and spices will be brought to
st. Paul, here to be divided up and dis
tributed to all parts Of the world, and II
the merchants of St. Paul and Mime
apolis, the twin cities of the Northwest
but show the same enterprise in the future
that they have in the past, the next
twenty-five years will see here at
the head of navigation on the
Mississippi river, population of half a
million people. An essential preparation
for reaplng this rich harvest, and of full.
filing the manifest destinies OF St. Paul
and minneapolis, was the improvement OF
the river AS set forth in the resolutions
and ho earnestly urged that nothing be left
undone to force this subject upon the at
tention of the national congress.
With the conclusion of Col. Davidson't
remarks, the boat drew up 20 the levee
and Capt. Barney called for three cheer:
for Com. w. F. Davidson, which were
given with will, after which the guests
disembarked, all more than pleased with
the boat, Com. Davidson, and all connect
ed with the line.