Bristol news. [volume] (Bristol, Va. & Tenn.) 1867-189?, 1868-10-02

occupies any civilized portion Of TIE globe.
This territory comprises an area of more
acres of fertile land than can be found in
the same extent Of country on the globe,
and the people are coming to occupy it,
The cultivation of the soil will be the chief
interest OF three fourths of these teeming
millions, and our broad and uudttlatng pra-
res will be burdened with the alternating
crops Of corn, wheat, oats and all the cere-
ais, diversified by orchards, fruit gardens,
meadows and pastures, while along the sun
ny slopes of the hills the vineyard will make
rich returns with their black and purple
vintage. The time is also coming--is even
here now-when we will no longer be known
solely as an agricultural people. We have
the extent of land that entities US TO hold
the latter title, but our pursuits are becom-
lug, and are now, more varied, and we are
| fast acquiring the position of a manufactur-
| ing people. Neither OF you need look out
OF the range of your own knowledge to hnd
| that some class OF leading manufactures
have been established. We have mechan-
ical skill, invention, talent, intelligence,
| ingenuity and capital, and the manufactu-
| ring must be done among our own people.
Farming, and all that pertaining to il, is
the first and leading interest of tie West
next TO this is manufacturing. We have a
| great deal of water power Yet, to harness
machinery to, aud what Is lacking ia this
respect is supplied by the coal in a thousand
mines. We nave the ore in the hills and
mountains of Missouri and the lake Superb.
or regions to make the iron. Easy trans
portatiOn brings il to the vicinity of our coal
mines, where IT can be smeted. We have
an abundance OF timber in the forests of In
diana, Michigan and Wisconsin, to furnish
! In ali hntl nj
purposes. We raise the wood in our midst,
the cotton on our southern borders, TO sup
ply the cotton and wooden factories, that
now and Ia the future, will be erected to
manufacture II into fabrics, and here, also,
We have the provisions to feed the thou
sands Of operators that will be required in
every city, village and hamlet, to operate
the multitudinous departments ofthe numer-
GUS manufactures, furnaces, foundries and
workshops OF the country. With this gen
! eral view OF the West, ani / not justified in
: claiming that witnlR The bounds named the
densest population of the globe will reside
aud prosper aud flourish ag no population il
the annals Of history has prUspered. In
claiming this, do not wish to draw any
comparisons that may be deemed insidiou'
TO to the States east of US, or south. The
| reasons are selEevidept to all why these
4 u
in the uniform fertility OF our soil and it,
adaptness to sustain Il large population, ant
the lack OF this uniformity and adaptness il
l. the States outside of these bounds. In n,
| other part OF the Union is it so easy to con
A | struct railroads as in the bounds named, ant
n | these great iron arteries are reaching out IL
f. every direction, and new lines are beinj
e planned, mapped out and completed eacl
succeeding year, aud will continue to be s.
as fast as the public interest shall requir
Z them. With all these advantages it is plat
. to see that the seat Of power, wealth ar
population, agriculture and manufacture
in the United States viii be in the Vale
OF the Mississippi and its tributaries aboy
Cairo, and the seat Of its chief commeTc
will be Chicago, shared by St. Louis, Nil
n waukiG, Omaha aud and some cities of les,
|. er note. This town IAN editor says) sis bu
one of hundred joints ia the fishing pol:
J. and does not contain all the sap. II IS
., comma in the sentence that progress
writing across the continent, not the yer
)e or its nOmnatiye."
a If you could see the many trains Of hea1
lily laden cars that go rushing over this rOa
e. every day, and the vast fields of corn, bug
II stacks oil wheat and oats, and the hedge
" and groves that are spinging up on ever
hand, and see, too, the broad shoulders
men coming in purchasing quarter, half au
whole sections Of land, aud with the intel
x tion of improving it too, you would say hui
l. ra for the West and with the poet e!
claim.
1.-THE West! whose broad acres from lax
le shore to sea,
>, Now wait for the honest and homes of IL
r free"
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