St. Cloud, Grantsburg and Ashland Railroad Co. - 1879-94 dated Minnesota Railway for Sale

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St. Cloud, Grantsburg and Ashland Railroad Co. - 1879-94 dated Minnesota Railway For Sale

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St. Cloud, Grantsburg and Ashland Railroad Co. - 1879-94 dated Minnesota Railway:
$219.00

Stock printed by True Republican Office, Hudson. Also available unissued at a lesser price. Please inquire if interested. The Northern Pacific Railway (reporting mark NP) was a transcontinental railroad that operated across the northern tier of the western United States, from Minnesota to the Pacific Northwest. It was approved by Congress in 1864 and given nearly 40million acres (62,000sqmi; 160,000km2) of land grants, which it used to raise money in Europe for construction. Construction began in 1870 and the main line opened all the way from the Great Lakes to the Pacific when former President Ulysses S. Grant drove in the final "golden spike" in western Montana on September 8, 1883. The railroad had about 6,800 miles (10,900km) of track and served a large area, including extensive trackage in the states of Idaho, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, Oregon, Washington, and Wisconsin. In addition, the NP had an international branch to Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada. The main activities were shipping wheat and other farm products, cattle, timber, and minerals; bringing in consumer goods, transporting passengers; and selling land. Read more at Item ordered may not be exact piece shown. All original and authentic.