Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1884-10-09

some Of Ute Impressions Of the Worth.
ern Pacific Country and the Future
Of the Road.
Pioneer Press.

ID Dlu1edpOiis yesterday Oy speClal
train, having left Winnipeg at six
o'clock Sunday morning. The party
registered at the West Hotel al about
) o'clock, and during the remainder
of the afternoon Mr. Field was engag-
ed with business matters preparatory
to his departure for New York
Among these was arranging for the
delivery at his car of a number OF
blankets he had purchased at the
| North Star WOODEN mills as specimens
Of Western production, and which he
contemplate sending 10 friends in
England and Scotland. He was
bound on this mission when met by a
Pioneer Press reporter.
I'VE have had most delightful
time" he said. Eighteen days since
we left here and not drop of rain.
We have crossed the Rocky noun
tains four times, ami think we have
seen all there was TO be seen. We
left here. went West over the North
ern Pacific, stopped time at Helena,
went into the National Park, thence
TO Portland and up to Tacoma and
Seattle and into British Columbia,
back again TO Fargo anl 10 Winnipeg,
along the Canadian Pacific just as Tar
as We could go, and then back to
Winnipeg ana to the eastern extremI
tv OF the road TO Lake Superior, back
TO Winnipeg and over the st. Paul,
Minneapolis t. Manitoba road to this
city by daylight. We have enjoyed
it all immensely. Every facility has
been afforded US to see the road
and the country We travelled by spe
cial car, and the observation platform
was found convenient and enjoyable
| have gathered an immense amount
of facts and figures about the roads
and the country. Portions of the
lines that we Travelled over in the
night going out We travelled over 10
the daytime in returning, and SO have
seen all there was to be seen.
have found both the Northern Pacific
and Canadian Pacific built in the
most substantial manner-snrprising-
/ ly good roads, considering their new
ness with good roadbeds. good
bridges, aud substantial buildings.
All the country they traverse needs
men, women and children. Along
the Northern Pacific there isn't mile
OF country that doesn't mean AZ i'm
mense carrying trade for the railroad
From here TO the Missouri and be-
yond the country is an agricultural
one without q superior. Then comes
the grazing lands, and beyond them
the mines, and then the agricultural
lands of Oregon. Oregon is to be a
great State. II Is surprising how rap
idly it is developing, and the superior
class OF people that are being attract
ed TO it. Then there are the fisheries
on the Pacific coast. No one can APP
preciate how large future the road
and the country has before II. Why
there is water power out there for a
world of industry. The mines, too,
are to prove no uncomfortable source
of traffic TO the road. For instance,
one mine that year ago didn't yield
the road one dollar of revenue, now
gives IL 5000 per day. | saw one flock
OF sheep consisting of A, 900 head.
They had never known days shelter
except such as heaven gave them, and
they were none the worse for it. !
asked one stock man what il cost him
head to take care of his cattle. He
| figured it over and told me about a
dollar head year. Just think of
that. He said he had never found il
necessary to feed his herds. There
was nothing TO do but TO brand them
and turn them loose They multiply
with rapidly, and practically take
care OF then selves. The bad lands,
believed to be worthless, have proven
the best of grazing lands, and the
hills afford shelter for the cattle when
the storms come. The cattle are the
first to detect the approach of the
storm and seek the hills and their pro-
lection. tell our breeders that they
can afford to sell their lands at any
price, or for no price at all, to people
who will go into this country and set
tie II up. Every person who settles
along the line OF the road is feeder
to IL. The road will be called upon
to draw out something for him. and
to return something he may pro-
duce."
A GREAT FUTURE PROMISED.
Then you think the Northern Pa.
citic, as property, has a future be-
| fore it?"
"A great future. There can be no
question aboat it. | had been in
every State in the Union except Ore
gon up to this trip. and / had read
about the country along the road,
but you can't appreciate II by reading
about il. have never been more
surprised. There is little in the facts
TO have warranted the last break in
Northern Pacific stocks. But there
was the financial panic of 1873 and
the Jay Cooke failure, and they said
the Northern Pacific was a bubble,
We knew little then of the country it
was TO traverse, and heard much that
was discoursging. Then came Vii.
lard and his epoch, and they said 1t
was bubble again. People knew
little about IL, and were ready to be.
lieve IL was a bubble. But il isn't
anything of the sort. Ii is most
substantially built road through a
wonderfully productive country-a
country that is going TO make traffic
all along its line All that is wanted
now is people. | tell you the politi-
cal center of this country is vel TO be
west OF the Mississippi"
| Mr.. Field spoke OF the stringeacy OF
the laws 10 the British possessions on
the Indian reservations
Why" he continued, I'VE had Ia
get a permit TO take our car aud ITS
contents into the Indian country.
Without II the mounted police would
have been duty bound to have taken
whatever liquor We had and 10 have
broken IL on the grouHd. The law
amounts 10 absolute protection in the
Western country, and they are strin.
gent In Its enforcement.
Dir. Field asked about the political
ouilook, and then continued:
think there Is no doubt of Mr..
Blain.'s election. | am glad he has
come into Ohio. and grateful to see
| the reception he is receiving all along
the line. / think there u little doub b,
OF his being our next President.