. Echi delle Montagne Rocciose : reminiscenze ed eccitanti incidenti dell'età romantica e d'oro del grande Occidente, con un resoconto grafico della sua scoperta, insediamento e grande sviluppo. Che deteneva un interesse di controllo nello stock del Pacifico settentrionale e della compagnia di navigazione e ferroviaria dell'Oregon, E costruì succursali sotto un accordo secondo cui la partecipazione azionaria doveva essere acquisita dalla NorthernPacific Company dopo che il debito obbligato delle succursali doveva essere estinto dalle operazioni di affondamento dei fondi. La ferrovia del Pacifico settentrionale è stata costruita interamente da privati

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. Echoes from the Rocky Mountains : reminiscences and thrilling incidents of the romantic and golden age of the great West, with a graphic account of its discovery, settlement, and grand development . which held a controlling interest inthe stock of the Northern Pacific and of the Oregon Railway andNavigation Company, and constructed branches under an agreementwhereby the stock ownership was to be acquired by the NorthernPacific Company after the bonded debt of the branches should beextinguished by the operations of sinking funds. The Northern Pacific Railroad was built entirely by privatemeans, with the exception of the land grants from the Government, which secured the payment of its bonds. Congress refused to granta money subsidy, or in any manner, save by grants of land, indorsethe permanent success of the road. It was constructed over thecourse marked out originally by the hand of Thomas Jefferson, whenhe dispatched the expedition, known as the Lewis and Clark Expe-dition, to discover a practical route for emigration and traffic with thePacific coast through our possessions newly acquired by the Louisianapurchase. The road was built without the aid of a Credit Mobilier, :: TST. THOMAS JEFFERSON. 129 ECHOES PROM THE KOCKY MOUNTAINS. 131 and opens up to the nation and the world most practicably thegreat wheat fields and mineral deposits of the vast Northern belt of ourcountry. It was the third and last achievement of the intelligenceand energy of the people, in subduing the wilderness and piercing themountains that divide the continent. It was the completion of onemore tie to bind together in an indissoluble band the once remote sec-tions of our common country. It creates one more portage for thewater-borne commerce plying between Europe and Asia. It opensnew fields of industry, where agriculture, mining, factories and work-shops will provide homes and employment for the landless andmoneyless millions of the Old World, as well as of our own race andcountry, who wi

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