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ignore the fact that such exertions and efforts will 

 always have to contend with great difficulties. The 

 stream of immigration has hitherto flowed notoriously 

 and preferably in the direction of the more South- 

 ern States, its diversion northward, particularly in 

 the States of Dakota, Idaho, and Montana, where 

 the Indian tribes are still hostile, will not succeed 

 until after years of struggle and perseverance. Take, 

 for instance, Minnesota, which has only just suc- 

 ceeded in attracting the influx of population already 

 mentioned, though its emigration agents have for years 

 traversed the length and breadth of Europe, and though 

 the State has for a considerable time been provided 

 with railways. To rely so confidently and strongly 

 upon the exertions and efforts in favor of an immigra- 

 tion, the results of which must be reserved for a future 

 day, and to deduce with certainty that they will neces- 

 sarily produce a considerable local traffic for the North- 

 ern Pacific Railway from the time of the completion of 

 the line, I consider hazardous. 



TRANS-CONTINENTAL TRADE. 



"19. If thus, according to my conviction, the pros- 

 pects for an advantageous local traffic on the Northern 

 Pacific railway during the first years of its operation 

 do not exist, the through traffic will hardly offer any 

 better chances. The Northern Pacific Railway, one 

 terminus of which is situated at Duluth, on Lake Supe- 

 rior, in Minnesota, and the other at Puget Sound, will 

 hardly be able to reckon on a through traffic in the 

 course of a series of years, so far as it relates solely to 

 American products, since the termini do not furnish any 

 basis for such a traffic. Puget Sound, favorably as it 



