. The great West: a vast empire. A comprehensive history of the trans-Mississippi states and territories. Containing detailed statistics and other information in support of the movement for deep harbors on the Texas-Gulf coast /by Dana. ss and healthf ulness of its seasons, and the fact that it offersa residence where the powers of most diseases which afflict mankind arereduced to the minimum. The Great West. SUM So far it has been the city of the poor. It will become the city ofthe rich. Every man carrying on any business of importance within500 miles will make it his home. Men with fixe
. The great West: a vast empire. A comprehensive history of the trans-Mississippi states and territories. Containing detailed statistics and other information in support of the movement for deep harbors on the Texas-Gulf coast /by Dana. ss and healthf ulness of its seasons, and the fact that it offersa residence where the powers of most diseases which afflict mankind arereduced to the minimum. The Great West. SUM So far it has been the city of the poor. It will become the city ofthe rich. Every man carrying on any business of importance within500 miles will make it his home. Men with fixed incomes will learnthat it is pleasanter than San Francisco, Chicago, or new York, afl aresidence. Men and women suffering from loss of health will Learnthat it is in fact pre-eminent as a sanitarium. It must become a re-ligious, a political, an educational center; a place where art shall befostered, where the best brains and the best spirits shall must become all that a city can be, in business, in health, in power,in leadership, in beauty and adornment. In short, man must do hispart as intelligently and faithfully as nature has done hers. This done,Salt Lake City will be all that a city can be. 284 TlIK (iliKAT \\ ICfi !. C3 The Grkat W i 235 CHAPTER XVI. NEW MEXICO-154D TO 1BB3. THE territory of New Mexico was constructed in the year 1&50from the southeast third of the first cession from Mexico, con-taining all of that area now embraced within the Territories of Arizonaand JSew Mexico, which lies north of the Gila, and west of the RioGrande rivers. In 1853 a second cession was made by Mexico to theUnited States, known as the Gadsden Purchase, which, in 1854, wasannexed to the Territory of New Mexico, extending the southern boun-dary line of that territory to its present limit, some 50 to 100 milesfarther south; at the same time the eastern limits were extended acrossthe Rio Grande river, and took in that unauthorized territory knownas the Texas cession of 1850. Se
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