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Title: The great Northwest : a guide-book and itinerary for the use of tourists and travellers over the lines of the Northern Pacific Railroad, the Oregon Railway and Navigation Company and the Oregon and California Railroad : containing descriptions of states, territories, cities, towns, and places along the routes of these allied systems of transportation, and embracing facts relating to the history, resources, population, products, and natural features of the great Northwest
Year: 1883 (1880s)
Authors: Winser, Henry Jacob, 1823-1896
Subjects: Northern Pacific Railroad Company Oregon Railway and Navigation Company Oregon and California Railroad
Publisher: New York : G.P. Putnam's Sons
Contributing Library: Harold B. Lee Library
Digitizing Sponsor: Brigham Young University

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heat in 16 The Northern Pacific Railroad. summer is almost tropical, forcing vegetation with great rapidity andluxuriance. The thermometer in winter often drops under zero, sometimesregistering 30° below, but the stillness and dryness of the air make the coldfar from disagreeable. An ordinary still day in Minnesota, with the ther-mometer ranging from zero to 10° or 12° below, is really enjoyable, andmechanics are able to work out of doors at this temperature without incon-venience. Spring does not linger in the lap of winter, but bursts forth onthe approach of May; and the Indian summer, late in November, is a seasonof almost magical beauty and softness. The climate, indeed, is consideredone of the most healthy in the world. Persons afflicted with puimonarydiseases are sent to Minnesota to recover their strength and vigor, andthousands of consumptive patients bless the dry and balmy qualities in theatmosphere, which are potent enough to rescue such sufferers from untimely<Jeath.
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Si. Paul 17 St. Paul. This city, the capital of Minnesota, is picturesquely situated at the headof steamboat navigation on the Mississippi River, over two thousand milesfrom its mouth. Thirty-four years ago, when Congress gave the State itsterritorial organization, fixing the seat of government at St. Paul, the nameof the place appeared on no map, and geographers only knew that it was avery small settlement, somewhere near the Falls of St. Anthony, in thatindefinite region called the Far West. To-day St. Paul has nearly 80,000inhabitants, and its wonderful growth and prosperity fairly class it amongthe remarkable cities of the great Northwest. Many of its people, nowscarcely beyond middle age, remember well its appearance on the advent ofthe white mans civilization. It was at that time a favorite resort of theIndians, to whom it was known as Im-mi-gas-ka, or White Rock, on accountof the towering bluffs of sandstone which mark the course of the river. Asuccession of undulating and beau

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