Northern tribune. [volume] (Cheboygan, Mich.) 1875-1885, 1884-02-21

From CheSoygan Ia Dcs Moines, lows.
BY the TRIBUNE's Special Reporter.

BY the TRIBUNE's Special Reporter.
Dies MONIES, Iowa, Feb. IA, 1884.
Arriving in Chicago from the Mlchi-
gan Central, the first impulse of one
bound for the west. is for the great
Rock Island depot" They are close as
railway neighbors. Once there you can
have your breakfast. sandwich or coffee
to suit your taste or pocket. Your bag
gage checked. You are in the neighbOr-
hood of one of the most noted places in
the great city of the west. With no wOr-
ry about being left behind, no hack to
hire. all yourself. You can from this
quarter see the postoflice, the other gov
eminent buildings, tie Grand Pacific
Hotel and those mammoth stores great
In size and in the masses Of merchan-
disc. Then you seek the waiting room
at the depot, and you feel like you have
been in Chicago. Westward the world
is moving with steady step, and from
the states of New York as well as from
these of New England the current Of pu-
ritan thought is seekin transfer in
Nebraska, and over on the head waters
OF the Missouri to widen out its POSSIBLE
tiles. 1t is remarkable fact that New
England brains have all through the
Northwest left mark for energy and
advanced thought. 1t is only through
Longfellow, Emerson, Wendell Phillips,
Mot nd hA no fJ
true significance. The genius Of the
nation is here seen at best in the spirit
of reducing distance, and multiplying
facilities and comforts for those here
and those to come. The Chicago, Rock
Island railway will afford you clue to
this wonderful land of ours, to what it
has been, to what it is, and to its tend
encies. This railroad has connections
not only with the west to the Pacific, but
with the east, with the south, and the
north. Anywhere and every where is its
purpOrG. To the smigrants and travel
lers of whatever kind, these facts are
everyday growing as familiar as a house
hold word. From Chicago to Des NJ Dimes
the route has some special features.
The wonderful level and over so wide a
reach as there is from Chicago to the
Mississippi river is nowhere else to be
equalled, Then there are towns every
ten or twenty miles, and between them
fine farms with residences and out houses
to match, the orchard filing up its place
and an occasional patch of forest, the
whole is in the highest degree pictur-
esque. La Sale. Joliet. Moline, are famed
wherever farmer has had farm to
open. From Davenport to Des Moines
the state Of Iowa Is the opposite of ILL
nOis. Here you haye hill after hill, but
the land is fine and cultivated with care.
An old railroad man who has been west
siRce the beginning remarked, that the
change in appearances OF the country
was associated in his mind with all the
forms of civilization. First, the raw
prairie. the rude hat, the clumsy barn,
the young fruit trees, but. time and en-
ergy soon tell of change. until, in the
end the fine residence, the fine barn, the
orchard fall of fruit III eason, the vii.
lage of a few scattered shanties, how
changed and how beautiful the change
into town or city. All these marvels
are of the west and all these marvels are
born of the railroad, and westward
as far as the tide of American grit goes
the same laws of change work and are
working. 1t is not surprise then to be
told of the greatness of the west, for
pluck, and industry in men and women
are forces that as surely ripen as they
are tested. To see all of this come west
and take the Rock Island and Pacific
railway, and you can 60 anywhere; stay
or return, wonder soon settles down in
to fact, and that fact Is you have seen
nothing until you know the great west.
SHANNON.