Democratic Sentinel, Volume 16, Number 32, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 August 1892 — A New Transcontinental Railway. [ARTICLE]

A New Transcontinental Railway.

The new transcontinental line of the Great Northern Railway began dally passenger service irom St. Paul and Minneapolis to Spokane, Wash., on the 15th of Autrust. This line is the shortest from the East to Western Montana, Northern Idaho, and Eastern Washington, and has the lowest mountain grades of ( any Western road. A vest area of agricultural, lumbering, and mining country is opened to settlement and development by the co npletion of this road, which passes directly through'the Flathead Valley and Kootenai minifig refflon, skirting hundreds of miles of immense forests and mountains veined with,gold, silver, copper, lead, and coat It touches many fine rivers and lakes and opens up a country noted lor scenic attractions.