The Manitowoc tribune. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1866-1878, 1867-11-21
The Future Of our Country.

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five hundred and seyenty-six pages o
manuscript. besides special accompany
ing document of over one hundred pages
In the regular report the statement i.
made that about 7,C00, 900 acres of pub
lie lands have been disposed of during
the past year There is yet the immense
amount Of | 400, 900, 900 acres Of public
land, including the lately acquired Rus
sian territory. The report is made up te
the 18th day of October, which ends the
fiscal year. There are thirty maps fully
descriptive Of the States and Territories
together with the most elegant and care
fully prepared map of the world that has
ever been gotten up in any country, ac
companying the report.
The special paper enclosed with the
report is one of the most interesting. In
structive. and valuable documents that
has ever been gotten up in this country.
1t fully elaborates upon the mineral
wealth of the United States, its gold and
silver products, the same in cotspaasseH
with the rest of the world, the quantity
OF gold, silver and other precious metals;
the quantities now in existence in this
country and in the world, and by this
means showing the comparative wealth
Of this county The paper speaks in de-
! tail of the great Pacific slope-.l 900
miles long and 6eJ miles wide, with an
area of over S3l 900 square miles, or
about 5000; 900, 600 of acres-sutficient
to to inhabit 100, ,000, 900 of people. The
great wealth and increase of this country
and its future prospects are thoroughly
treated upon. The great Pacific railways
are fully explained, and the tide of the
Atlantic and Pacific shown.
The trade of the Indies, of China, of
Japan, of all the Eastern World, must
now flow into this country, and throughthis
country to the rest of the world. To
San Francisco, and thence to New York,
all the precious metals of the Eastern
World will find their markets for the
world. Mr. Wilson shows how we are
now three thousand miles ahead of Eng
land in our routes to China and Japan
and the Indies. He shows in full the
necessary diversion of the trade to this
country, and its effects on our public
landsin the Pacific slope and the Missis-
sippi valley. He gives on the map Of the
world every railroad line completed or in
contemp plation in this country He
speaks in detail of the various Pacific
railroads, announces the important fact
that by October, 1869, the main road
will be finished, and the great steam
horse will carry us from New York to
San Francisco direct.
He says there are now $1,000 miles of
completed railroad in this country, which
since their commencement, is at the rate
of 900 miles year. He further says
that there are in course of construction
II, $50 miles OF railroad For these roads
completed, and for those in contemplation
the Government has donated over 1884,
100000, acres of land, and to the Pacific
roads over a 900, 900 acres Of land He
speaks In detail of the immense increase
Of the wealth of the country by the war
ranted advance in public lands bordering
on all those roads. Mr.. Wilson treat
ise on our domestic and foreign trade, in
these papers are Invaluable to our COM
/ mercial world He demonstrates that
our present domestic trade is over $5,-
600, 900.
Hc shows conclusively that we are
bound to absorb the immense trade of
northern and eastern Asia, by way of San
Francisco and New York. He gives full
details about the Suez canal shows how
England has been acquiring immense
wealth from Indian possessions-h
present income being over $4,000, 900
pounds in trafcs for the last year just
from that source shows how we are 3,
SO miles nearer to Melbourne, Austral-
la, than England or France tells US all
about China and Japan, and our increas-
ing trade with those countries; gives the
names Of the cities tfor. tti'at'e, and now the
shipments are made to San Francisco,
then to New York, and then to Europe,
and through our own country; gives an
interesting account of the trip of the
steamer Colorado from San Francisco to
Japan in 27 days, and her return in three
weeks, laden with a rich freight. The
same trip from London OF Paris would
take 60days each way. Rapidity of trav-
ell, MIR. Wilson contends, will draw the
travel and the trade. The teas and silks
of China and Japan must come through
US to the rest of the world. The trade
was worth $500, 900, 900 last year to our
European neighbors. Wen get this
trade 1t is rapidly coming to U.s.
| Mr. Wilson's learned and instructive
digest of the trade Of the world since the
time of Alexander the Great up to this
present time is altogether the best writ
ten article on the subject we have ever
had the pleasure of perusing. His de-
scription of our great country, Its railroads
rivers, canals, and other internal improve
lncnts his full description Of the Pacific
slope, with its l00, 10000 acres Of undis-
posed of public lands, and its great Paci-
| fic railways. is a State paper which every
man in this country desirous of being in
formed of our true nationcl greatness and
prosperity and our great prospects of the
future will eagerly seek for. Mr.. Wilson
reports that there is room enough on the
great Pacific slope for forty new States.
He thinks that by the commencement OF
the next century we will be a united
country of one hundred States, with the
control of all the great treasure shipments
of the world He says this country has
commenced her grand imperial course,
with the control of the Eastern trade In
her power, and that the immigration and
natural growth of the country will place
us at over one hundred millions of people
by the year 1900 He speaks of the civ
ilizing influence of our great democratic
institutions, and their effect upon the
rest of the world.
MIR. Wilson has been long time pre-
pairing this elaborate paper, with the ac-
companying map of the world, which has
also been been so well prepared. He has
consulted over one thousand different vol
umes, been in constant correspondence
with the principal officers of the Euro
pean Governments who could give him
information on the various subjects OF
which he treats, received much informa-
ton and data from the State Department
and our ministers and consuls throughout
: the world, has had the assistance of the
surveyors and mineralogists Of our Int
rior Department, and now lays before
the people through the Secretary of the
Interior one of the most valuable public
documents this country has ever received
! from any of it's public officers.