Orleans independent standard. [volume] (Irasburgh, Vt.) 1856-1871, 1857-11-20


exclusively his food, his lodge, his fuel,
harness, clothing, bed ornaments, wea-
pons, and utensils. Here is his sole de-
pendence, from the beginning to the end
of his existence. Tue innumerable car
niverous animals also subsist upon them
The bufaloes alone have appeared TO me
as numerous as the American people, and
to inhabit as uniformly as large a space
/. of the country. The buffalo robe at once
suggests his adaptability to winter eli
mate.
The Great Plains embrace q very am
pie proportion OF arabic soil for farms.
The bottoms ofthe rivers are very broad
and level, having only few inches of
elevation above the waters, which descend
by a rapid and even current. They may
easily and cheaply be saturated by all
the various systems of artificial irrigation
aqueducts, artesian wells, or flooding ma
chinery. Under this treatment, the soils
being alluvial and caleareous, both from
the sulphate and carbonic formations, re-
turning a prodigous yield, and are indie
pendent of the seasons. Every variety
of grain, grass, vegetable the grape and
fruits fax, cotton, and the fora, under
| the perpetual sun, and irrigated at the
root, attain extraordinary vigor, favor
and beauty.
! The Great Plains abound in fuel, and
j the materials for dwellings and fencing
; Bituminous coal is everywhere interstra
/. titled with the calcareous and sandstone
e formation; it is also abundant in the fans
t. of the mountains, and is everywhere con
= veniently accessible. The dung of thu
c buffalo is scattered everywhere. Tht
4 odor Of vegetable growth being reverset
e by the aridity of the atmosphere, wha
J. show above as the merest bushes. radiat
e deep into the earth, and form below al
L immense arborescent growth. Fuel q
N wood is found by digging. Plaster an
re limestone, freestone, clay, and sand exis
lie beneath almost every acre. The larg
4 and economical adobe brick, hardened
A. the sun, and without fire, supersedes othe
to materials for walls and fences in this DIR
p atmosphere, and as in Syria and Egyp
~ resists decay for centuries. The dive
Is lings thus constructed are most health.
TO- being impervious to heat, cold, damp, an
W wind.
Ii The American people are about, the
UT to inaugurate a new and immense ord
he Of industrial productioE-pastorial agl
,e- culture. It's fields will be the Gre
nd Plains, intermediate between the ocean
IN Once commenced, it will develop vel
nm rapidly. We trace in their history Il
ne successive inauguration and systemai
Ids growth of several Of these distinct order
nj The tobacco culture, the rice culture, t
de- cotton culture, the immense provision CT
ture, navigation, external and intern
commerce, external and internal transpC
~ tation by land and water, the hemp c,
,ut turp, the fisheries and manufactures.
Nth Each of these has risen as time
md ripened the necessity of each, and noi
me- lessly taken and filed its appropris
;rie place in the general economy of our
sas dustrial empire.
two This PASTORAL property transports
inn self on the hoof, and finds its food rea
i furnished by nature. In these eleva
tho countries, fresh meats become the p
The ferable food for man, to the exclusion
tbe bread, vegetables and sailed articles.
and atmosphere of the Great Plains is Q
81; petually brilliant with sunshine-to
mi healthy, and inspiring to the temper.
- corresponds with and surpasses the
toric climate of Syria and Arabia, fr
:. whence we inherit all that is ETHEREAL
, g refined in our system of civilization
r religion, our sciences, our alphabet,
numerals, our written languages, our
- ticIes Of food, our learning, and our