St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-04-17
THE CANADIAN POSSESSIONS.


Of but the dryncss Of the air and the ozone
in it do not allow the chilling cold we know
of here. And the five months of growing
weather they have there allow the common
garden fruits we have here, and the climate
is evidently adapted for wheat There is
plenty Of forests, coal stone for building, and
timber for houses. The Hudson bay is navi-
gable for five months, and it is three hundred
miles nearer to Liverpool by that route than
via New York.
COOKE AND WILLARD.
But come back to the Northern Pacific;
am interested in that road Horace Greedy
and | owned some of the original stock; we
have none of it now. When Jay Cooke first
advocated that road he was laughed at;
it was thought to be a ''fools Grand" But
some day that is going to be a valuable
stock. When 1t has been watered and the
water squeezed out, and the stockholders who
paid their money for the stock frozen out,
and the road got into few hands, it will be
a valuable property. There should be two
statues erected, one at either end Of that
road-one of Jay Cooke, the other Of Henry
Willard. Both honest men, both gentlemen.
Willard took if up and pushed it through and
when all Wall street jumped upon him he
paid out his money to save his reputation for
honesty and keep his promises. [ would
rather be Henry Willard to-day than the men
who have his money in their pockets.
THE NORTHERN PACIFIC.
All along that road are cities built of can
vas, and shanties, with all the gambling
privileges of an eastern community. They
are hardly vet inhabited, but they have corner
lots staked out, speculate in them and have
a boom. The emigration along the road is
immense. Trains do not run at regular
hours, but are made up in ST. Paul hourly
whenever there is crowd enough at the depot,
and when one has left another is backed
up, filed, and sent afterward. In all these
towns the first building erected is the church,
next the school-house. But when you get to
the mining towns the original citizens were
hardly Puritans, but gamblers, and yet these
gamblers were the most profuse with their
contributions to the church; they were a
little off in their morals, these gamblers, but
free with their money. | was in the first
coach that passed over the Rockies, and then
we entered Portland. A beautiful city it
was, with fine houses, and these residences
all seemed to belong to
RAIDRO4D MEN,
either managers or conductors and porters.
The scenery across the mountains is beauti-
full, at least so it is said, for there was so
much smoke from fires, dust, and smoke
that nothing could be seen. From Portland
we went to Puget sound, Washington terri
tory, the Italy of America. The climate is
mild and equable, the soil wonderful, and
mountains magnificent To a sturdy, hard
working man, who can live on a little and
f., Lotto 10 4ha Of he
world to emigrate to. Puget sound is beau
tiful every mile, deep, so that a man-of-war
can land, all of the ships OF the world come
there for TIMBER and great mills are supply
ing timber for all the Pacific slope.
DAKOTA LAND AND CLIMATE.
But come back to the wheat country. Da-
llota is the great state. You can put New
England, New York, New Jersey there and
have land enough to spare. The northern
Dakota wheat surpasses that of all the world,
you don't know what wheat is until you come
to northern Dakota. 1t is on account of the
chemical condition of the soil that it is so
fine and is worth more in any market. In
all that country the ground begins to thaw in
March or April; as the thawing goes on, the
wheat is planted, and in August, when the
harvest comes, there Is no fear of rain.
left the northwest with the impression that
the winter was not as bad as represented.
heard up there that the COW was the great
civilizer. There is nothing to do in the
winter unless the settler has a COW, and then
he has to stay home and milk her, if he has
two COWS that settles it. The effect of the
long winter is that it keeps men at home,
develops domesticity, makes families ac-
ouainted, and teaches a man that he is hap
pier in his own household than anywhere
else. 1t is Il great civilizer.
ASTORIA.
I wentdown the Columbia river to Astoria.
the metropolis of salmon. We took 1900
cases OF packed salmon on our steamer.
There are 100 packing factories there. The
town of Astoria is historical, because there il
was that Astor laid the foundation of his for
tune The salmon fisheries are the basis OF
its wealth, but the fish do not seem to de-
crease with the great drain upon them.
! CALIFORNIA.
Thence we went to San Francisco, and
found that city much improved from three
years ago. 1 found the Chinese there pro
tectionists. They were in and did not want
their countrymen to come. But the farmers
and capitalists were dissatisfied with the Chi
! nese laws; labor had risen and enterprises
had to be abandoned, but political reasons
were in the way of revocature of the Chinese
immigration act-Irish political reasons.
| California is much richer and in better shape
than formerly. Mining industries have
given out and it has done the country good
for while mining is legitimate it intro
duces all forms of gambling. The large
farms of the state have also been broken up
and a small farm with larger farmer on it
is the true secret of a nations posperity
The state is growing large amounts of wine:
wine that is sold in New York in imported
French casks and sold there as French and
| German 1t is all the same wine and grown
in California.
IN THE SOUTH.
The condition of the south is good. Tit
| negro is doing we'll; their education is being
cared for by southerners-not northerners-
who are. saying, eff he must vote he must bt
educated'' The southern people are no
talking about the war; they are building VI
what the war burned down. The schools ant
colleges and churches are active and coul(
teach us a lesson. / bring back glad tidings
from that section, and / believe the honesty
of the men who told me, sWe went In tina
contest with a firm idea that we were right
but God knew better than we, and we art
glad that it ended as it did, II tell YOU, ,
said Mr.. Beecher, ''there will be no more
trouble between the north and SOUTH
UTAH.
But to return to Utah, it Is modern fheoc
racy; it has sentimental history. Instituted
by far-seeing men, it was made possible by