Our country, the marvel of nations; its past, present, and future, and what the Scriptures say of it . i\ ^ ? \ , r - ^< ^ ,;\ 4 .* *%\ 1^ ^i HI THE PROGRESS OF A CENTURY 37 at the time of the great conflagration, in October, 1871, nearly 350,-000 souls ; and now the census gives the number as 1,698,575. (Seeillustrations.) San Francisco, sixty years ago, was a barren waste,but to-day contains 342,782 New York in 1648 The industrial growth of the country has been no less 1792 the United States had no cotton mills ; in 1890 there were225,759 looms, employing 174,6
Our country, the marvel of nations; its past, present, and future, and what the Scriptures say of it . i\ ^ ? \ , r - ^< ^ ,;\ 4 .* *%\ 1^ ^i HI THE PROGRESS OF A CENTURY 37 at the time of the great conflagration, in October, 1871, nearly 350,-000 souls ; and now the census gives the number as 1,698,575. (Seeillustrations.) San Francisco, sixty years ago, was a barren waste,but to-day contains 342,782 New York in 1648 The industrial growth of the country has been no less 1792 the United States had no cotton mills ; in 1890 there were225,759 looms, employing 174,652 hands. In 1900 the total woolclip in the United States was 288,636,621 pounds, with 17,938,000spindles in operation. In railroads, the first timid experiment was atramway in Ouincy, Mass., built in 1826. Its only purpose was theeasier conveyance of building stone from the granite quarries ofQuincy to tide-water. Horses were used as the motive power. Itwas the germ, however, of a mighty movement in this country. Thefirst railway in America, for passengers and traffic, — the Baltimore& Ohio, — was chartered by the Maryland Legislature in March,1827. The capital stock wasat first only half a milliondollars; and a portion of thatwas subscribed by the Stateand the city of were its motive power,even after sixty-five miles of Cotton Mills, Manchester, N. H.
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