St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-12-04
THE G. B. & Q. SYSTEM.
A New Steam FhOroughfare Connects ST.
Paul With the Rest of the
World.
a Model Railroad Under Model Manage
ment-Splendid R ad Bed and Spleen
did Rolling Stock.

The Chicago, Burlington & Northern
Railway company completed It's line 10 tnls
CITY at an suspicious period in Its own MS
tory and in the history of st. Paul also.
The CORPORATION had long ago hidden good
hive 10 impecuniosity and reached that point
where whatever it attempted to do could
he accomplished regardless of expense.
while a provincial town, almost at
the headwaters of the Mississippi,
had expapded into a metropolis, with fu-
ture that baffied calculation. The new
steam thoroughfare that necessarily had 10
compete with other long-estabShed and
excellent lines would have Jared Ill had 1t
not been able 10 improve upon what mad
been done AID afford the travelling public
something better than il had previously
been accustomed 10 in the way of accOmmo-
datiOnS This the corporation above men
toned did but its capital aid facilities were
unlimited and its managers had had the
benefit of a larger experience than has
perhaps fallen To the lot of any other rail-
wav magnates. However this may be-
they constructed one of the best railroad
lines in the United States in the face of
difficulties that necestated the employ
ment of the first engineering talent to be
monuments that has ever been reared by
enterprise and farseeing sagacity, and dedi-
Gated TO interstate communication and ma
tional progress.
1t should be borne in mind that this line
winds along the east bank of the MisSis-
sippi under the shadow of its towering
bluffs. and within full view of some OF the
most magnificent river scenery to be found
in North America. The half has not been
told Of the scenic grandeur of the upper
Mississippi. and neither the pen of the
writer nor the brush of the painter can ade-
Quately describe its thousand attractions.
This much may be said descriptiyely
without any attempt at draw
ing pen picture: A mighty
wafer way one of the mightiest on the
planet lined on either side by bluffs that
are nearly akin to mountains in altitude.
whose rocky sides and SUBMITS have been
carved into such fantastic shapes as no hn-
man artist could initiate. by that patient
architect Nature that used the Father of
Waters as a chiZel, and the ages as
per cd in which to perfect the stupendOuS
artistic work No one who can afford it
should fail to pay the upper Mississippi
visit. row that the Chicago. Burlington d
Northern rail Nay has provided such admir-
able facilities for doing so. From La
Crosse northward it is one constantly
changing but always charming. panorama
of bluff stream and forest. the former fire.
quentiy crowned by huge masses of water
worn rock, which. at a little distance, re
semble the crumbling turrets and bastiOns
of ruined castles Of the middle ages. So
striking indeed is the resemblance. espe
cIally in the witchery of moonlight that
the tourist can scarcely credit that it is all
illusion. and for the moment is half induced
TO think that he is in the old world gazing
at the relics of antiquity. These bluffs BY
the way furnish some of the finest and
most attractive building sites in the United
States, and the day is coming when the!
will be dotted with palatial residences, as
the Hudson river cliffs are now. The
writer, who has heard the ''hOrOlOgue OF
time strike the half century with solemn
chime" probably will not live to SEE
it, but who knows? The world
moves rapidly in this age. and as soon a.
some rich man with elegant tastes secures
one of these miniature Rocky mountains
beauties it as money can beautify, and
electS thereon such a mansion as TASTE
would suggest and coupons build, his ex-
ample will be speedily followed. the
Mississippi bluffs will become the fashion.
and the nabOb viii be ala unnOticed unit in
the sum of humanity who does not own one
of them. r..-
And right in this connection the writer
would suggest that our magnificent bluffs
ought TO be largely appropriated by our
Southern brethren for summer homes. They
overlook the same lordly river that flows by
his cotton or sugar plantation. and If he
don't feel inclined to take a palace car on
the Chicago, Burlington d Northern, lei
him eXpend few of his SuperfuOus thOus
andS in the constructing of neat steam
yacht to convey himself and family
where humor dictates during the
torrid season. The average Southerner
would revel in our river scenery. so radio
ally different from the dead levels and semi
tropical forests of the lower Mississipp
bottom lands. He would never weary of
exploring our wild ravineS and canons. and
following our innumerable trout streams.
while our fresh, bFacing atmosphere would
give him a new lease of life and lead him
to consider that he. had never truly lived
before. We whose dwelling place is near
the head waters of the great river, invite |
OH DIuJnerS al Tie Otuer end of it to come
and see what manifold attractions we have
to offer them during the heated term. and
when the thermometer gets down to fifty
odd below zero. We will return the visit and
exchange snow drifts for magnolia bios
SONS. The st. Paul Land company, which
always manages to have large and valuable
real estate possessions wherever the Chi
cagO d Burlington railway penetrates, has
a large amount of property along the new
line that is worth journey from the At
lantic or Pacific seabOard to examine for
permanent or speculative investments.
This sounds somewhat like puff, :" but.
nevertheless, it is true, as any well-pOsted
real estate man would see at a glance. The |
st. Paul Land cOmpanys own several of the |
best town sizes between this city and La |
Crosse. which it is developing with its char |
acteriStic energy and the expenditure of |
whatever is necessary to accomplish the |
proposed end. Space will not permit de- |
scriptiOn In detail of all the embryo cities |
that this company is engaged in building
or to enumerate the many advantages they |
possess. Hagar, Nelson and Cochran are |
among the number, and business men |
east, west and south. who are thinking |
about changing their locations. should GER |
tainly visit one or all of them before set |
thing down elsewhere. Each one of these |
sites embraces a beautiful level intervale |
from one to three miles III extent with the
river on one side and line of the most
picturesque bluffs that imagination can
paint towering skyward on the other.
The SUBMITS of the bluffs. it must be re-
membered, are on an approximate level
with the surrounding country, which is one
of the richest and most thickly settled agri-
cultural districts of the Northwest. Here
tofore the farmers of this region have had
no transportation facilities for their pro-
duce save what the river afforded. but not
withstanding this untoward circumstance
they have thriven marvelously. built hand
some dwellings and fine barns, and supplied
themselves with all the multifarious ma
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