Nebraska advertiser. [volume] (Brownville, Nemaha County, N.T. [Neb.]) 1856-1882, 1868-10-29
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ness at Omaha, and does his easter
portion of it through this same Nel
York bank. And the mOneyed mar
who knows Wall street 50 well, an
probably Liverpool and Canton, di
not know, that from Omaha. steamer
run up tWenty-three hundred an
sixty eight miles to Fort Benton.
I he had stood on the levee at Omah
the other day he would have seen tn
steamer Success come down that Ion,
run, and round to, with $500, 900 i
treasure.
When win eastern capitalists, an,
politicians, and Christians, lear
where and what the West is2 SOm
seem to think that it is the HOLLAND
Purchase, or Genesee country, or q
the farthest, Ohio. Ohio is s'dOwT
east" to a western man. Our ideas o
the national domain are sadly dwarf
ish. The growth Of them has by NJ
means kept pace with our increase
The Louisiana purchase in 1903 FOL
Sl5, ,OOO, 900; the Florida purchase in
1919 for S3, ,OOO,O 900; the annexiOn Oi
Texas in 1S45; the California, New
Mexico and Utah purchase in I84S fOl
S15, ,OOO, 900; the Arizona purchase in
1854, for $40, ,OO0, 600, and the Russian
purchase for 81 ,5OO, 600, were purchas-
es that would have bought out central
and southern Europe and the British
Islands. A provincial eastern mind
has no tOlerable conception of the
magnificent distances that measure
and bound these regions. The banker
asked an innocent question, not
dreaming that an American can run
between the banks Of one of his own
rivers more than three thousand miles
on a steamer up the Missouri.
Steamer above Omaha! Why, man
Of Wall Street, after a steamer has run
three hundred and fifty miles above
Omaha, on the Nebraska shore, she
runs on somewhat diagonally across
Dakota Territory (as large as seven
Empire States, as large as forty Bay
States), and then is nine hundred
miles below Fort Benton, where the
Success took on board your $500, 900 in
treasure.
And as vast as these distances, and
territories, and steamboat excursions
seem, to one going West, the idea is
to be taken into an Eastern mind, if
possible, that our geographical center
for the national domain, is a long dis
tance beyond the head Of steamboat
navigation up the Missouri river, that
being thirty-One hundred and seventy
five miles above st. Louis. Our pres
ent center is near the mouth of the
Columbia on the Pacific, measuring
from EastpOrt, Maine, to the extreme
western Aleutian Island in our Rus
sian purchase. If one would measure
the whole, by two Titanic steps, star
ting from EastpOrt, his dividing foot
print would rest somewhere about
John Jacob AstOr's old Astoria. Our
extreme northern limit, BarrOw's s
Point, is seventeen hundred miles far
ther north of this in its latitude, as
well as being so much farther west.
About One-third of our circumference
of the globe is now spanned by our
territory!
When the Englishman bOasted to
the Indian that the sun never sets on
British soil, the Indian replied 1.-THE
Great Spirit no trust Englishman in
the dark" 1t certainly is to be hoped
that our pride will not swell with our
domain, or our spread eagle sprain his
wings by stretching them to our two
extreme limits in some national flutter.
The mileage now drawn by the del
egate in Congress from Washington
Territory is about S11, 900 for each ses-
sion for a delegate from New Arch
angel it must be at least $50, 600; and
when one shall come down from Bar
rows Point to represent in our nation
al halls his polar bear and walrus con-
his mileage must 90 vastly
above q score of thousands.
/ cannot compute it exactly, as Mr..
Seward has not made known by what
sledge path and line Of kayacks, the
delegate shall take his
route to Behring's Strait, and Stika.
Lively work in politics, no doubt,
the mileage and pay will make among
Iur EsquimaUX citizens, and will
give US in Washington politicians
more oily, if possible, than we now
have there.
''DO steamers run above Omaha ?'
And Eastern id 9as are quite as crude
about the growth and population. and
power of the West. Indians, log cab
ms, immense forests, elearings, and
vast prairies, as many suppose, are
the ''far West, (" out beyond Buffalo
and Chicago. They cannot realize
that if all the population of New Eng
and were dropped from the census, it
would not reduce it One-tenth, nor
can they-imagine how the entire area
# OavrT TNDo-IoDI o0.,TI l., 2al-nn ant
Of Minnesota, and yet leave land
for four States and over like
Connecticut.
Still fainter is the Eastern concep-
ton of the growth of the West. In
the fall of 1910 ] shot quails in the
streets of Quincy, Ill. In April 1867,
met in the theological hall at Chica-
20, to whom his Iiberality gave the
name, Dea. Willard Keyes, one of the
log cabin founders Of Quincy, now a
wealthy, and powerful city.
In the spring Of lS4l, spent two days
1t KeOkuk, Iowa, a village OF. twelve
log and two frame houses. In these
It had thirteen grOggeries, and a mot
lev population of Indians, half-breeds
and whites, perhaps q hundred in all.
Now, KeOkuk has a population Of
about 5000, twelve churches, three
1aily papers, a medical college and
two or three classical schools. It's
main street is about a mile long, hay
ing many substantial brick blocks for
banks, offices, hotel, etc. One railroad
connects it with Des MOines, the cap
Ital, one runs around the rapids and
up toward Muscatine, and one East
connecting the city with leading
points in Illinois.
About the same time i visited Da-
venpOrt, Iowa. Then the place had a
Of about six hundred. and
few farms were opened beyond Duck
Greek, four miles west. Now it has
twenty thousand or more people, with
a score of churches, splendid hotels,
theaters, banking houses, and private
dwellings that are princely. Beyond
Duck Creek now it is farms, cities and
railroads four hundred miles to COun-
ell Bluffs, opposite Omaha. From
Omaha the Pacific railroad is running
at the rate Of three miles a day, and
has already gone about eight hundred
miles.
Yes, steamers run above Omaha,
and it would be a good thing if the
heads Of some Of our Eastern financial
and political and religious Organiza-
tiOns would take passage on them
Correspondent Of CORgTeg0tiORGList.
SAN FRANCISCO, Oct. Is.