Show 1 r TRANSCONTINENTAL AL RECORD v Not very many people know that another rail- rail rt ad d l line ne has lIas been completed across the continent t is the Chicago Milwaukee St. St Paul The road fin shed and doing business It 11 winds its way rough the mountains of Montana the Coeur t and Washington som sometimes times paralleling the fhe he Northern Pacific sometimes the Great North- North 7 rn E n but it is said with better grades than either of L l t e northern roads and is backed by all the money moncy to make male it in every respect first class and z li- li great business road t It is simply another indication of how the west growing When the Union Pacific and Central roads were projected men of means not k ily cl closed sed their safes but set the time lock so liat for that particular investment it would not p pen n for a a. a hundred years ears Shrewd and and wise busi- busi r ess men III in New York lork City explained to an en- en who said the road would pay that could 3 he road be built which built which was impossible impossible fully fully t completed and made a present to any company it fould uld not get business enough for years to pay for the axle grease and babbit metal used for the wheels under the cars ears Of f course cours they knew n nothing thing about the country L was going to pass through they simply figured figure it was tempting providence to try to build a over that awful a stretch of barren land hey did not realize that the road itself would reate business that people would follow the bad d pick the along its line and make up resources That is not long ago as time is reckoned only bout six forty-six years ears ago but now not only is that The inc finished and doing well but besides this the k 4 Fac Pacific fic the Great Northern the Atchison Santa Fe the Southern Pacific and now ii tic ho Chicago Milwaukee St. St Paul In addition he lie Oregon Short Line and the road up the Colum- Colum Jia hia make half a continental line through the wild h st and aud they are all doing well and their pro- pro see where it will be a advantageous to build nany many more roads 7 In addition to the above the Gould road will be beJ J inis hed probably this year and nothing has been more nore fully demonstrated than that in jn the wilderness iI lie e railroad is the greatest in the world bt ot only the greatest but the most swift ll eans in the beginning of the settlement of a new country It has its moral effect as well as its itc physical It Iti i a R better instrument through which to subdue savages than armies with banners it is the evangel or f modern trade and it has still a tremendous work to fo o perform In the last twenty-five twenty years it has made Mexico a modern state in the next twenty- twenty t ive years rears it will place South America in accord with all civilized nations It is the John the Baptist Bap- Bap of commerce its whistle is the voice crying in t c 1 the wilderness of the civilization that is to follow for which it makes a path whereon that civi- civi comes on unsoiled sandals |