Excerpt from The Winnipeg and Hudson Bay Railway: Forming, With Hudson Bay and Strait, a New Trade Route Between America and Europe United States Tribute - From their geographical position, Minnesota, Dakota, Wyoming, Montana, and other western territories of the United States will necessarily be tributary to this route, as it will offer them the same advantages and to the like extent as to the Canadian possessions. The farmers, and cattle-men of. Those districts recognize this, and are anxious for the completion of the railway. Red River Valley. Up wards of bushels of wheat are produced annually in the Red River Valley of Minnesota and Dakota, over 80 per cent of which is exported. Much of the land in this valley is yet unoccupied. The Red River flows northward towards Hudson Bay, and is navigated by the largest river steamers from Winnipeg to Fargo, on the the Northern Pacific Railway, a distance of 580 miles. Nearly the whole of this surplus wheat would seek the new route as the shortest and cheapest, the saving in carriage representing the increase in price to the producer, as well as operating as a stimulus to increased production. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.