Show COMPLETED years of toil and patience the east and the west have been bound together by another ii on band some predicted that abo northern pacific would never completed and perhaps the financial arah of 1873 came nearer the full realization of this prophecy than any other event in the history of tho road jay cool ft swamped at that time and all the smaller stock holders unloaded themselves of what stock they possessed for less than half its yd lda the project was considered dead for a of 5 ears and it was seldom that the nevi spacers men tinned it and when they did it was in a manner not in the least complimentary company operated their completed line as far as bismarck da lota until a ear or two aero when thoy commenced extending line westward tho people pained kunfi dence in thu movement and capital be came interested and the road w is pushed ahead through narrow canyons and the hearts of mountains over barren wastes aud fei tile plains to day the citizens of the northern portion of our continent have direct railroad tion from east to wet abo bbous ands of fat cattle and millions of bushels of pram heretofore tied up for want of railroad lail road facilities nil commence to the eastern marts in a manner which will astonish eastern bleis heretofore in the opening of new road the central pacific combination have been enabled to so maintain fare and freight rate that alie new routes afforded no relief to anybody with the completion of the northern pacific anew era will dawn that road is under obligations to nobody it reuh es aids water with its own line and the pacific obeah 13 to everybody it can make its own rates without fear of reprisals in any direction it can cut the fare to san Pian cisco and force its rivals to follow suit or loio the busi nessi it can make its own fi eight rates mako its own contracts with pacific coast merchants in other words do exactly as it pleases and the pacific combination 13 powerless for cither cedres or vengeance it proposes to issue no passes and pay for all favors it obtains what a bold and independent stand foi a new corporation to make if they purpose carrying these intentions and declai athons out to the letter no dead bead congressmen or newspaper cocu will ride over the northern pacific if they want any bugs pugs or done for them they intend to kiy for it and people wanting to ride over their road must for it such independency co is almost unprecedented and if main timed to the end may result in much good foi tho public |