A new history of the United StatesThe greater republic, embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . bushels annually. Theseregions enter as totally new factors into the worlds supply of foods and rawmaterials. A great area of this new territory might be defined that wasinhabited in 1870 by less than a million people, in 1880 by more than threemillions, and in 1899 by from eight to ten millions. Let us imaaiine a man from the East who has visited the Northwestern SETTLING THE NORTHWEST. 513 States and
A new history of the United StatesThe greater republic, embracing the growth and achievements of our country from the earliest days of discovery and settlement to the present eventful year .. . bushels annually. Theseregions enter as totally new factors into the worlds supply of foods and rawmaterials. A great area of this new territory might be defined that wasinhabited in 1870 by less than a million people, in 1880 by more than threemillions, and in 1899 by from eight to ten millions. Let us imaaiine a man from the East who has visited the Northwestern SETTLING THE NORTHWEST. 513 States and Territories at some time between the years 1870 and 1875, and whoretains a strong impression of what he saw, but who has not been west ofChicago since that time, until, in the Worlds Fair year, he determines upon anew exploration of Iowa, Nebraska, the Datokas, Minnesota, and well informed he had tried to keep himself through written descrijD-tions and statistical records of Western progress, he would see what nothingbut the evidence of his own eyes could have made him believe to be possible,Iowa in 1870 was already producing a large crop of cereals, and was inhabited. A DISPUTE OVER A BRAND I)y a thriving, though very new, farming population. But the aspect of thecountry was bare and uninviting, excejrt in the vicinity of the older com-munities on the Mississip2^i River. As one advanced across the State the farm-houses were very small, and looked like isolated dry-goods boxes; there werefew well-built barns or form buildings; and the struggling young Cottonwoodand soft-maple saplings planted in close groves about the tiny houses were soslight an obstruction to the sweej) of vision across the open prairie that they onlyseemed to emphasize the monotonous stretches of fertile, but uninteresting,plain. Now the landscape is wholly transformed. A raili-oad ride in June 514 ADMINISTRATION OF CLEVELAND. through the best parts of Iowa reminds one of a ride through som
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