The emigrant aid journal of Minnesota. [volume] (Nininger City, Minn. Terr. [i.e. Minn.]) 1856-1858, 1857-11-07

,r} ,numerah|e ca,uiyorous animals also subslst en-
them. The buffalo alone have appeared to me as h"-
merous as the American people, and to inhabt UNIFORM
" as large space Of country. The buffalo ROBE AZ
once suggests his sdapability to winter climate
The Great Plains embrace very ample proportion OF
arabic soil for farmers. The " bottoms Of the rivers
are very broad and level having only few inches OF
elevation above the water which descends by rapid
and even cur, en They easily and cheapy saturated
NV all the various systems of artificial rr,gatlon'
axeouieas, artes;an wells, flooding by machinery
Under this treatment the soils, being aluv'al ana cal
careous, both from the sulphate and carbonate 'of
t;ons return prodigous Weld, and Independent of
the seasons Every variety Of grain, grass, vsgetaoe
the grape and other fruits, fax, hemp cotton ana 'ne
fora. under perpetual sum- and irrigated at the root
attain extraordinary yigor, favor. and beauty.
The Great Plains abound in fuel and the materials
for dwellings aud fencing. Bitumnous coal is every
where interstratifed with the eaeareoas anu
formation also abundant in the hanks OF the noun
tans and is everywhere conveniently accessible ine
order Of vegetable growth being reversed by the adlty
Of the atmosphere what show above as the merest oush
es, raliate themselves deep into the earth and form
below an immense aborescent growth Fuel OF wooo IS
found by digging Plaster and hme limestone, 'sse'
stone clay and sand exist beneath almost every acre
Large economical u1cbe brick hardened in the sun ana
witho.t fires surersedc other materials Tor walls ana
fences in this dry atmosphere, and, IN Syria and
Egypt resss decay for centuries Dwellings thus con
structe are most healthy being inpervons to heat cod
damp, and wind ,,
The climate of the Great Plains favorable to beab
longevity and intellectual and physical development
and stimuatiyc of exalted Of social civilization
and refinement. Americans and their ancestral Euro"
pean people having dwelt for many thousand years ex'
in countries of timber and within the regh
Of the m"rtins atmosphere, where winter '"nn''a'es
all vegetation annually for half the year where all
animal food must be sustained fed, and tatened hy TIL
lage with the plaw where the essential neccssics OF
existence food clothing fuel and dwellings arc secured
only by constant and intense manual tn'l why TO
this people heretofore the immense empire OF pastoral
agriculture, at the Threshold of which we nave arrived
has been AS mpetey blank was the present con-
dition Of cal development the Atlantic Ocean and
American Continent the ordinary thoughts OF the
antique Greeks and Romans Hence this immense
world of plains and mountains occupying threehfhs Of
our continent novel to them and exactly contra
jictory in every feature Of the existing prcjud'ces,
routiue and economy Of society," is unanimously pro-
nounced an nuinhsbable desert. To any reversal of
such Judgment the unanimous publt opinion the rich
and poor the wise aud ignorant, the famous and OBJ
scure agree to oppose unanimously dogmatic and uni
versa Deafness To them the delineation Of travellers
elsewhere intelligent, here tnged with unacy; the
science of geography is bofogged the sublime order OF
Creation no longer holds and the Supreme engineering
of God is at fault and chaos of blunders .
The bulk of it is uuder the temperate zGne, out OF
which it into the arctic zone on the south the
parallel Atlantic arabic aud commercial region tanks It
on the east that of the Pacific the west The Great
Plans then at once separate and bind together these
Aanks rounding out both the variety aud compactncss
of arrangement in the elementary details OF society
which enables continent to govern itself with the same
ease single city.
Assuming, thcn that the advancing column OF pro-
gresS having reached and established itself IN tolct
all along the eastern front OF the Great Plans from
7 10 heyin a!
hanked them to occupy California and Oregon assu
ming that this column is about to debouch upon theu
to tie front and occupy them with the embodied impulse
of thirty millions Of population, heretofore scattered
upon the hanks but convergng nto phalanx upol
the centre some reflections, leg tmately made, ma,
cheer the tmd and confirm those who hesitate from ol,
opinion and the prejudices Of adverse education.
1t is we'll established that tenths of the food
the human family is, ought to be- animal food which
is the result Of pastoral agriculture AS compared Will
the human family the cattle Of the world consume abou
eight times the od Meat milk, butter, cheese po"l
try, eggs WOOL leather, honey, are the productions
pastoral agriculture Fish s the spontaneous produc
ton of the water Nine-cnths of the labor OF arabl
culture is expended to produce the grain and grasses
that sustain the present supplies to the world OF tn
above enumerated articles Of the pastoral order Il
then, country can be found where pastoral produce
sustained BY nature fish in tue ocean
it manifest that arabic labor being reduced TO tn
production Of bread food only, may condcnse itself to
very small per cenage Of its present volume and tn
e cultivated ground be greatly reduced in acres.
u At present the pastoral culture Of the American pee
y pie results exclusively from
T. Cattle of all kinds, ls,37s9O
r. Horses and mules 6,05
:. Sheep 2l,l12, :?
Swine, oU534 ~
e. Total value. s655,ss3 ,2l
<, ."'" '"'' ,,
y 1t is probable that the aggregate "bory"nl stock
the Great Plains still exceeds in amount the above ta
1t spontaneously supported by nature as is the fish
< the sea- Every kind OF domestic animals Aoursh
er upon the Great Plains equally we'll with the wild one
o. Three tame animals may be substituted for every wi
one and vast territories rcoccuped, from which the wi
r. stock has been cxtermnated by ndscrminate slaugh
y and the increase OF wolves.
it, The American people about. then, to Inaugural
lc new and u,cnse order Of industrial production IA
H. ToRAL AGKICrITUkE Its fields vii be the Great Plai
rs intermediate between the oceans Once commenced
he will develop very rapidly We trace i'll their history
H. successive inauguration aud systematic growt OF se,.
b. al of these distinct orders the tobacco culture the ri
~ culture the cotton cutarc, tue mmense provision g
it. ture Of cereals aud meats leather and wool, the ~
culture CATION external aud interual commerce
,s tcrual aud internal transportation by laud and wa'
d. the hemp culture tho fisheries, manutactu,es
le. Each vf these had arieen time has peued tue