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Show Xoithrrn Pill- Kuili-cmd. ; .Kit-Governor Goodwin, of Arizona. : hat official information from one of the Vice-Presidents of the Northern Pacific Pa-cific Bailroad Company, that a committee com-mittee will soon be at Puget Sound to fix the wjstern terminus of thatj.road ; and that orders have been given to build twenty five miles of the road at once and eighty as soon as possible. The country from Pugct Sound to the Cascade mountains is heavily timbered, but presents no other - obstacles to rapid grading. The distance from the Sound to the Dalles is about 2"ii miles. The main difficulty will be encountered in tho mountains, aud about eighty miles will cany the railway to he first elevations. If the Northern Company organizo labor forces and build as rapidly as the Central did, they ought by 187.") to have the whole line completed from the Sound to Lake Superior. On the lake end of the route tlie work is progressing pro-gressing very rapidly, and next summer is likely to see not less than six to seven hundred miles completed. The country from Like Superior to the Rocky mountains is represented as of average agricultural value with Minnesota Minne-sota or iscou-in, nearly all the way, and as the rails are laid down and the engines moved forward, thousands of farmers will crowd along the road for miles on either side. Thus there will have been organized a local traffic profitable to the company com-pany before the through business begins. Meanwhile the new emporium for the Asiatic and American coast trade ou Puget Sound will cause a rush of adventurers and speculators in that direction, and onr northern neighbors are promised a very lively time of it from next Summer onward. Time and experience can only determine which of the two routes is to secure the greater grea-ter amount of the trade from Asia. San Francisco has the start, which is a great advantage, but we apprehend that in the long run that road will do most of the business which carries the cheapest. We have no natural advantage advan-tage over Puget Sound in the ocean trade. Their harbor is as good as ours. They have coal and exhaustions timber, with fish, lumber, and good lands east of the mountains, and when a few years shall have given them their share of steamship lines, the carrying trade across the continent will go to that road which does it the cheapest and quickest. quick-est. Sac. Union. |