The Daily Astorian. [volume] (Astoria, Or.) 1876-1883, 1883-08-26
ASTORIA, OREGON:
Nothing Succeeds Like Success.

ingly exempliied by the coming
in triumph of II. Willard and his
associates to drive the last spike
of the Northern Pacific Railroad.
With him will come several of
those who formerly took pleasure
in decrying the road and every
thing and everybody connected
with it. Among these is the as
tute RUFUS Hatch OF Wall street.
Eleven years ago, in ridicule of
the road, that financial magnate
said:
The business of the road will be
larger, perhaps, during its con-
struction than after its completion,
as all the materials necessary to
the building OF the unfinished por-
tions will have 20 be transported
over those sections OF the line al
ready laid and equipped, and these
alone viii yield an immense reve-
nue.. After its completion the
traffic will consist of government
supplies, mails, females and other
military stores; Of the local carry
ing trade of the present populous
states bordering on the North
Pole: of the bulk of the business
now done by the steamers plying
on the waters of the Suez Canal,
New North Sea, Disma! Swamp,
Dutch Gap, and other streams
adjacent and tributary 20 the road,
and Of the entire trade Of the Pie
gan Indians, consisting chiefly Of
bears oil, hare's oil, and other
products of the Soil. All the
great through business from the
Atlantic to the Pacific coast Is
bound TO pass over this line, be-
cause it will be the shortest that
can be built, free from grades,
curves, stopping places, and other
Instructions its entire length, and
as before stated, down hill both
ways. Strange as it may seem,
race of people, numbered by mil
lions, and supposed to be descen-
dants OF the original Aztecs, have
recently been discovered in this
"Eden" of America, and their car
rying trade will speedily consti-
tute a business greater and far
more profitable than was ever
dreamed of by Mr.. Vanderbilt,
Sir Portion Mcto, Mister Schuyler,
or James Junior Fisk. This road
unites the Tom Bigbee river with
the source of the Nile, and viii by
a lateral branch, tapping the Bos-
ton, Hartford and Erie, secure the
trade of this "Dead Loeb" 10
Alaska. As a line il Is 500 miles
shorter from its eastern 10 its west
ern terminus than it is vice versa,
and brings New York and Liver
pool AGO miles nearer together
than they ever were before or viii
be again wide map and circulars
of Northern Pacific Tailroad)
Branch lines or "feedcrs" will be
bniit from the main trunk, east
ward, westward, northward and
sou'-sou'west by southwark,
stopping at all the important
point on both hemispheres going
and returning, So as 10 drain the
entire known world, and render
valueless the other railroads on the
face of the globe.
Proctor Knott, who was elected
governor of Kentucky on the Oh
of this month, immortalized him
self by his famous speech in 1871
opposing the road and humorously
jibing the pretensions of Duluth
Duluth hourishes, however, and
has sent word to the newly elected
governor of the sonr-mash region
that if he will come to that "z.n-
ith city Of the unsalted seas" b,
can be elected mayor of that mum
cipality. la the speech to which
we refer, which was delivered II
the House of Representatives
twelve years ago, Proctor Knott
in the course OF his remarks SAT-
that after an arduous search h
had discovered Duluth upon til
map. He went on to say:
lf gentlemen will examine il, the,
will not find Duluth in the cente
of the map, but represented in th'
center of a series Of concentri
circles one hundred miles aparr
and some Of them as much as fou
thousand miles in diameter, EN-
bracing alike in their tremendou
sweep the fragrant sayannas of tn
sunlit South, and the eternal soil
tudes of snow that mantle the ice
bound North. How these circle
were produced is, perhaps, one {
those primordial mysteries that th
most skiIlful paleologist will nevC
be able to explain. But the fac
is, sir, Duluth is preeminently
central place, for L am told b
gentlemen who have been so recB
less of their own personal safet
as to venture away into those Az
full regions where Duluth is SUP
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