Audubon County Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Audubon Co., Iowa) 1885-1894, 1893-08-24
FIELDS OF WEALTH.

The Northern Pacific Railway Makes .
ducts and Resources of tho Great
Northwest.
The products and resources of the
great northwest are conspicuously ad.
vertised in several departments Of tho
Worlds Fair, but nowhere on the
grounds is the matter put to better ad-
vantage than in the exhibit Of the
Northern Pacific railway in the Trans
portation building. The lines of the
Northern Pacific road, extending from
Chicago to Puget Sound on the Pacific
coast, traverse the seven great states
of Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Da-
kota, Montana, Idaho, Oregon and
Washington. The aggregate mileage
of the road is 1858 miles
The broad belt of coun-
try through which the road passes
is as yet sparsely settled; but, with it's
mountains of gold, silver and iron, it's
forests of choicest woods, it's majestic
grazing fields and the fertility of the
vast expanse of grain producing soil,
it is only natural that it will soon be
thickly populated. And the Northern
Pacific is painting the way to the land
OF wealth in the most forcible manner
possible. The exhibit of the states
named is shown on two specially con-
structed cars 1t is so neatly and
Complementary arranged that the
visitor at once gets AN idea of the
principal products of the states named.
The products on exhibition include
all kinds of grains in the straw;
threshed grains and seeds; fruits and
berries; wild and cultivated grasses;
ores, woods, iron and coal: precious
metals and stones; hops, tobacco and
flax; flour, wool and fish: tanning bark
and tanning acid marble, building
stone, pottery and brick; aerated,
dried, preserved and canned fruits;
vegetables, petritied woods, fine min
eral specimens, etc, etc. In short,
the exhibit comprises a general collec-
ton of all kinds of products to show
the diversified resources of the seven
great northwestern states traversed
by the Northern Pacific railroad. On
the outside of one of the cars
are seven tanners with statistics of
the population and products of
each state up to the present year.
Wisconsin Interpolation, May :, 1893.
|, SO0,OO0. Products In 1892: Yield OF
grains, III ,77s, 96l bushels; lumber cut,
3,677, 034 900 feet; shingles cut 1,G44,-
374, 900; iron ore output, $50, 652 tons;
pig IRON produced, 1896 tons; live
stock, 4, l+i, 0O6 head.
Minnesota-Population, May !,
1898, l.5OO,O J0. Products in 1892:
Yield of grains, 2i,207, sos bushels;
lumber cut 400, 49l ,03+ feet; iron ore
output, 1.171,S9 tons; live stock,
2,755, 0lS head; free government lands,
6,5lO,Gl1 acres; Northern Pacific Il. Il.
lands, l,20o,OCO acres
North Dakota-Population May !,
1898, 275, 900. Products in 1902: Yield
of grains, 55,733,slj bushels; wool
clip, 3,123, 200 pounds live stock, L.
U23,30O head: free government lands,
$4,000, 555 acres; Northern Pacific rail
road lands, 6, $50, goo acres.
Montana-Populatio May 4, 1898,
200 600. Products in 1sn2: cold, silver,
copper and lead, $40, 565, 626; wool clip,
10, lSG, $50 pounds; live stock, 3, SAT, 465
head; free government lands, 74,5js,-
li3 acres: Northern Pacific railroad
lands l., 300, 600 acres
ldaho-Population, May 1883, 12O,-
COO. Products in 1892: Gold, silver,
copper and lead, $40, TS6, 6i2: wool clip,
$40, s3i pounds; live stock, 1,463, 900
head; free government lands, "a, ?25, li9
acres; Northern Pacific Il. r. lands,
$40, 900 acres.
Oregon-Populatron, May !, 1898,
100000. Products in 1899: Yield of
grains, .2,s5l 900 bushels; wool clip,
li,oG4, 500 pounds; live stock, 3,s4S,2i5
head; salmon fisheries, value, S3,O00,-
OOO; free government lands, 80, 455, s73
acres; Northern Pacific II. X. lands,
800, 900 acres.
Observation-Disclosures, May /,
1893, i75, coo. Products in 1892: Lum-
Der cut, 1,i6i, 425, $50 feet; shingles
cut, $3.50, SIS, $50; coal output, l,555,-
coo tons; yield of grains, 2O2S9, 900
bushels; yield of hops, 5,0Ss, $50
pounds; wool clip, 5,354,s6O pounds;
live stock, l,7lO,7G5 head; free govern
mont lands, 10, O9s, i20 acres; Northern
Pacific railroad lands, 100000 acres.
The exhibit is the only one of the
kind in the building, a fact which re-
fleets considerable credit on the man
agement of the Northern Pacific. 1t
is needless to say that it attracts
great attention from visitors.