Cedar Falls gazette. [volume] (Cedar Falls, Iowa) 1860-1895, 1863-06-12

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and square miles, with population of four
thousand in ~, and two Sioux at every
white elbow. They raised, that year, eight
hundred bushels Of wheat, had two manu-
factories, and dealt largely in water falls furs,
beads, blankets, and wampum. That land
was not State, not even Territory; it was
proud to be the latter in 40; it became the
former in 80, and to-day with her two hun
dred thousand souls, her five hundred and
sixty -eight manufactures. her three millions
of bushels Of wheat. and her thousand schools
there stands Minnesota. Kansas since AZ
has passed successfully to the dignities Of
Territory and State, while away yonder or.
ganized since ~, clusters q constellation Of
Territories, Nebraska, Washington, Nevada,
Colorado, Utah, Dacotah, New Mexic, with
more than million Of square miles, three
hundred and fifty thousand souls, and their
fields of gold, whose yield in single district
will reach, the present year, twenty millions
Of dollars, . angle section of grand aurif-
erous region, before which the old stories Of
tho African Gold Coast and the yellow glories
of 1.-THE Golden Gate " grow dim. s3 ~
Two years before the Harbor and River
Convention, the Superior region produced
thirteen hundred pounds Of Copper Last
year, ten thousand tons were shipped, worth
four millions of dollars. Since 47, Galena
has sent forward five hundred million pounds
Of lead, and some of it. please Providence
and dry powder, has been sped on noble er-
rands.
The facts that throng upon us are opres-
sive, and we had thought to pass over in ST.
lence that grand feature of Northwestern
commerce that has piled up along our eight
cen miles of wharves, the bounds Of a mil
million homes. But when there comes to us
. scented breath from the Pine woods oi
Wisconsin, and the shadows of the great for.
ests of Michigan fall on the thought, we can,
not let the lumber go by the board J" we
cannot play Hamlet with Hamlet's part omit
ted. OF the whole annual product of lum.
ber in the United States, reaching value Of
one hundred millions of dollars, the North.
west contributes to-day thirty three millions
and the sixteen years we have been writing
Of, have swelled the twelve millions of dol.
lars, the old value of AZ, by an accession o
nineteen millions more, or march in the
trade Of million and fifth per annum.
In ~, Illinois had twenty-five miles o
railroad. On the 10th of August of thai
year, the Directors Of the pioneer road in thu
West, the Galena and Chicago I'm ion, open
ed the books, and so limited were the means
and so faint the faith Of the people, that only
twenty shillngs were exactod upon share
and in the city Of Beloit, only one man Wa!
found with faith and works enough to take
solitary twenty shillings' worth and he be
longed on the night side of humanity, being
. negro and a barber. That road triumphet
and led the way to all that splendid system
that has given us new and nobler Illinois
with round three thousand miles Of rail
way radiating from Chicago, grasping tn
whole land, as with two hands of iron, ant
touching the Mississippi as with the tips O
ten fingers. The ten grand railways center
ing here represent one hundred and thirty
eight millions of dollars, and involve one
eighth of the total railroad capital Of tn
United States. In AZ, the Northwest hat
five hundred and eghtytwo miles Of rail
road. To-day 1T has eleven thousand tw'
hundred and sixteen.
The delegate to the old Convention nigh
have read in Chicago paper Of ~, "eleveI
days later from Europe !" read in paper O
the fifth Of July Of an event in the port 0
New York on the 2Sth of June, and neve
thought to think, as he read, "better lat
than never" News was trampled ignobl.
under the dirty boots of stage drivers, an,
trundled to dsconsolate New Buffalo by tn
Michigan Central railroad in those days
news that can now girdle the earth in les
than forty minutes. He read that loiterin
"news" and bade the West good bye. An
now he comes to us again, and finds tn
whole Northwest caught in spidery web 0
ten thousand miles OF telegraph, that hav
drawn together, and strung upon a singl
nerve, the far and the near; ; that have .fel
their way through the wilderness and acros
the continent, and raveled out a fiber {
the wild where rolls the Oregon" TIL
Northwest has, to-day, one.fifth of the Who'll
nervous system of the United Stated.
4 Let the horizon widen away from thi
young city by the sea, until it bounds tn
Northwest: Ohio, Indiana, Michigan, iii
7 nois, Wisconsin, Iowa, Missouri, Minnesotl
Kansas, Nebraska. magnificent area {
842, ,9l0 square miles; an area greater tina
that of four Of the five Great Powers OF tn
old world combined. Greater than all tn
empires Of Austria and France, and tn
kingdoms Of Great Britain and Prussia t.
gether, it would still find a corner for littl
7 Greece, and four Grand Duchies, for Mass,
chusetts, iVermont, New Hampshire, Cor
necticut, and leave an area that like the fan
! ily picture in the Vicar of Wakefield, to
large to get into the house, would prove
world to wide for little Rhody" How sui
lime field for the march Of empire?
u With this dim glimpse or two ut the Nortl
west, we must be, to-day, content The Il
Dor of compressing into q few newspapt
paragraphs anything like picture Of tn
{ free empire, is an artists work not ours
J We have only indicated two or three of ii
mile-stones that mark it's mighty progress
T It is something grand, we think, to live
such time and land time, condensir
, into years the energy Of ages. Think no
steam has woven the broad earth into ma
row selvedge, and know that only the 9TH
, day, when we sadly penned tribute to Il
late Hon. John q. Wilson, we were recor,
, ing tho departure Of the last survivor
!, those who, on the 7th Of August, 1907, a
companied Robert Fulton on his first voya,
up the Hudson. In such land as tn
! Northwest that, in single year, pours, in
!, the lap of the world ninety-two and ha