The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1867-11-22
The Future of our Country.

disposed of during the past year There
Is yet the Immense amount of |, 400 900, 900
acres of public land, Including the newly
acquired Russian territory. The report is
made up to the 18th day Of October, which
makes up the fiscal year There are thirty
maps fully descriptive of the States and
Territories, together with the most elegant
and carefully prepared map Of the world
that has ever been gotten up In any coun-
try, accompanying the report.
Ihe special paper enclosed with the re-
port Is one OF the most Interesting, instruc-
tive, 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 comparison with the rest Of the
world, the quantity Of gold, silver. and
other precious metals Z; the quantities now
In existence IN this country and in the world,
and by this means showing the comparative
wealth OF this country. The paper speaks
| III detail of the great Pacific sope-l 900
miles long and $50 miles wide, with an area
of. over o3l 900 square miles, or about
5000, 900 OF acres-sufhclent to inhabit
lOO,0U,0OO of people. The great wealth
aud 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 aud Pacific
shown,
The trade of the Indies, of China, of ia
pan, of all the Eastern World, must flow in
to this country, and through this country to
the rest Of the World To San Francisco,
aud 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 thr:e thousand miles ahead
! OF England In our routes to China and ia
pan ald the Indies. He shows in fall the
| necessary diversion Of the uade to this
country, and It's effects on our public lands
III the Pacific slope. And the Mississippi
valley. He gives on the map Of the world
| every railroad line completed or in contem-
piation Ia this country. lie speaks In de
tail OF the various Pacific railroads, announ-
ces the important fact that By October,
1869, the nlaln road will be finished, and
the great steam horse will carry US from
New York to San Francisco direct.
He says there are now 81 900 miles of
completed railroad in this country, which,
since their commencement, is at The rate of
200 miles a year. He further SAYS that
there are in course of construction II, $50
miles Of railroad. For these roads com,
pleted, and for those in compilation, the
Government has donated over l94, SO0, 900
acres of land, and to the Pacific roads over
24,OU0 900 acres land, He speaks in de.
| tail OF immense increase of the wealth of
the country by the warranted advance in
public lands bordering on all those road. =
Mr. Wilson's 5 treatise on our domestic and
foreign trade, in these papers, are inya!u.
able to our commercial world He demon.
strates that our present domestic trade is
over S5,0OO 900, 900.
lie shows concu.ively that we are bound
! to absorb the immense trade of northern
and eastern Asia, by way of San Francisco
| and New lork. He gives full details about
the Suez canal shows how England has
been acquiring immense wealth from Ludian
| possessions present income being over
| ElS, GEO 900 pounds in tratcs for ti.e last
year just from that source ; shows how We
| are 1919 miles nearer 10 Melbourne, Aus
! traia. than England or France tells US
| all about China and Japan, and our in
ereaslng trade with those countries gives
! the names of cities for trade, and how the
shipments are made to San Francisco, then
| to New York, and then to Europe, and
| through our own country gives an inter
estlng account of the trip of the steamer
| Colorado from San Fancisco to Japan in
| u days, and her return in three weeks,
laden with rich freight. The same trip
from London or Paris would takos60 days
each way. Rapidity of travel, Mr. 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 $3.50, 900, 600
last year to oCr European neighbors. -
We II get this trade. 1t Is rapidly coming
| tOuS.
! Mr.. Wilson's learned and instructive d.
| gest of the trade of the world since the
time of Alexander the Great up to this pres
ent time Is altogether the best written ar
ticlc on the subject We have ever had the
| pleasure of perusing. His description of
our great country, Its railroad, rivers, ca
nals, and other internal improvements his
full description of the Pacific slope, with
! its lUU, 600 900 acres of undsposed of pub
| lie lands, and It's great Pacific railways, is a
State paper which every man In this coun-
try deslrous OF being informed of our true
| national greatness and prosperity aud our
great prospects of the future viii! eagerly
| seek for. Mr.. Wilson reports that there
IS room enough on the great Pacific slope
| for forty new states. He thinks that by
By the commencement of the next century
we will be united country of one hundred
million states, with the control cf all the
great treasure shipments Of the world. He
| says this 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 lie
speaks Of the ciyilzing influence of our
great democratic institutions and their ef.
| feet upon the rest of the world
| Mr. Wilson has been long time prenar-
ing this elaborate paper with the accompa-
nying map of the world, which has also
been so well prepared He has consulted
over one thousand different volumes, been
! in constant correspondence with the princi-
pal officers of the European Governments
who could give him information On the va
rions subjects Of which he treats, receiv I'd
much information and data from the State
| Department and our ministers AMI consnls
| throughout the world, has had the assist
ance of the surveyors and mineralogists of
/ our Interior Department. and now laps be-
! fore the people through the Secretary Of
/ the Interior one OF the most valuable pub