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Prepared to engage in such an enterprise; but now the people are calling
for greater facility of communication with a section of the country
abounding in mineral wealth. Of the several routes surveyed, we shall
have space in this article to notice only the line running from Lake
Superior to the head-waters of the Missouri, the Columbia, and Puget
Sound, known as the Northern Pacific Railroad. The public domain north
of latitude 42 deg., through which it lies, comprises about seven
hundred thousand square miles,--a territory larger than England,
Ireland, Scotland, France, Spain, Portugal, Belgium, Holland, all the
German States, Switzerland, Denmark, and Sweden. The route surveyed by
Governor Stevens runs north of the Missouri River, and crosses the
mountains through Clark's Pass. Governor Stevens intended to survey
another line up the valley of the Yellow Stone; and Lieutenant Mullan
commenced a reconnoissance of the route when orders were received from
Jeff Davis, then Secretary of War, to disband the engineering force. THE
ROUTE. Recent explorations indicate that the best route to
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