ST. CLOUD. 54. Route. 375
$272-372), in South Dakota ('Coyote State'), and (225 M.) Sioux
City {Hot. Garretson, R. from $1; Mondamin, $2-372); in Iowa.
The first of these has a large water-power from the Big Sioux River
and contains 10,266 inhab. and extensive flour-mills. It is the seat of the
Dakota Penitentiary and the State Deaf and Dumb Institute. — Sioux City
is an important manufacturing centre with (1900) 33,111 inhab., a large
foundry, and several pork and beef packing houses.
From (132 M.) Benson a line runs to Watertown and Huron.
Other lines diverge to the W. and E. at (192 M.) Tintah Junction
and (197 M.) Yarmouth. At (214 M.) Breckinridge we reach the
Red River (p. 376), which we cross to (215 M.) Wahpeton (960 ft,;
2228 inhab.), in North Dakota (p. 469).
Two lines of the G. N. Ry. ascend the Red River Valley (p. 376),
one on each side of the river. Through-trains generally follow that on
the W. bank, which they reach on crossing from (260 M.) Moorhead
(p. 376) to (261 M.) Fargo (900 ft.; p. 376), where the G. N. Ry.
intersects the Northern Pacific R. R. (R. 83). We are here joined by
the line running via Fergus Falls (see below). Fine fields 0 fwheat
are passed. — 339 M. Grand Forks (830 ft.; Northern, $2-272;
Dacotah, $ 2-4), with 7652 inhab., large lumber mills, and the State
University of North Dakota (600 students), is the junction of the
G. N. R. line to Montana described in R. 82. — 419 M. Neche, on the
49th parallel of N. lat., is the last station in the United States, and
(420 M.) Gretna is the first in Canada (custom-house examination).
We now run over the tracks of the Can. Pacific Railway, through
a district peopled with Scots, French half-breeds, and Mennonites.
489 M. Winnipeg {Clarendon, Queen's, Leland Ho., etc.), see
Baedeker's Handbook to Canada.
b. Via Fergus Falls.
472 M. Great Northern Railway in 17V2 hrs (fares as above).
St. Paul and (11 M.) Minneapolis, see p. 365. The train ascends
on the E. bank of the Mississippi, parallel to a track on the other side
used by trains running towards St. Paul. 29 M. Anoka (3769 inhab.
in 1900); 41 M. Elk River ; 47 M. Monticello. — At (77 M.) St. Cloud
(1030 ft.; Grand Central, $ 2), a city of (1900) 8663 inhab., with large
granite quarries, the two lines from St. Paul unite with that from
Duluth (p. 370). It is also the junction of a line to Willmar (p. 374).
— Farther on we pass through a country so thickly sprinkled with
lakes that the line has often had to be led across them on trostles.
From (119 M.) Sauk Centre a branch-line runs to the N. to (91 M.)
Park Rapids. 132 M. Osakis (Idlewild, Lake Ho., $2), on the pretty
lake of that name, is a favourite resort of summer-visitors and ang¬
lers. 144 M. Alexandria (Letson, Geneva Beach Ho., $2), another
summer-resort, has good fishing and shooting. 170 M. Ashby (Hotel
Kittson, $ 272). At (189 M.) Fergus Falls (Grand, $ 2), with (1900)
6072 inhab., the descent of the infant Red River is used by mills
and factories. We now run through the interminable wheat-fields of
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