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Saint Paul and the Northern Pacific Railway - grand opening, September 1883 (1883) (14573025169)

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Saint Paul and the Northern Pacific Railway - grand opening, September 1883 (1883) (14573025169)

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Title: Saint Paul and the Northern Pacific Railway : grand opening, September 1883
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Northern Pacific Railroad Company
Subjects: Northern Pacific Railroad Company
Publisher: St. Paul : Brown & Treacy, Printers
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University



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ished theresult. The profits of this carrying trade must exceed $100,000,000annually, and Great Britain receives them all. Must we as Ameri-cans admit that we have reached a point in our political history whereto grant a money subsidy for any purpose is to corrupt many publicmen and send favorite leaders of both parties to dishonored graves?Whether the prize offered in the control of or fair competition for thecommerce of the Pacific is not sufficient to justify one more attempt,in the hope that the lessons of the past and the purer patriotism of thisday may not be sufficient to enable our public men to resist the temp-tation to take advantage of public necessity for personal gum is aquestion worthy the most serious consideration of our merchants,officers, statesmen and people. With the Northern Pacific completed and a first class line of Amer-ican steamers on the Pacific, the products of Japan, of China and theEast Indies can be laid down at our doors in thirty days. It is not too 82
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much to believe that a few years will witness through bills of ladingbetween St. Paul, Yokohama, Canton and Hong Kong, and the fabricsmanufactured by our water powers on the Otter Tail, St. Louis, St.Croix and Mississippi, now running to waste, will find their readiestand best market with the merchant princes of the Orient, who hence-forth will soonest find the west by traveling east, and that thereby thecountless millions of wealth that hitherto have been received by thecities of western Asia and Europe will be received and retained by theproducing classes and merchants of the Northwest. STATISTICAL SUMMARY. Popula-tion. Wholesale Trade. Manufactures. BankingCapital. AssessedValuationof Property- Year. Amt. ofSales. No. Em-ployes. Value ofProduct. No.Empls being aboutone-third of the actualcash value. 1850 8404,71610,27912,97620,03133,I7S4^75060,80378,868106,053 1855 1S60 1865 $5,287,480 1870 $9,813,000 9,892,846 1875 27,755,926 29,868,387 1880 36,948,98351,232,64766,628,494 1,92 7 $

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