The evening telegraph. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1864-1918, 1869-05-18


need say nothing; but the last two, in addition |
TO their fine soil, have valuable beds OF coal. |
OF the above named Territories Montana we |
place first in agricultural resources, aud IL is
hardly second in its golden mineral wealth.
1t has thousand beautiful and fertile valleys,
watered by the numerous mountain crystal
streams which make up the great Missouri. |
In fact, as Minnesota is without peer in her
peculiar beauties, embracing as she does the
table forest lands, with their countless
crystal lakes, which are the sources of the
Mississippi, so Is Montana unsurpassed with |
her countless romantic mountain streams
and lovely valleys which make the sources
head streams of the great Yellowstone,
has, with its mines Of gold, copper and lead,
many of the natural features Of Montana, and
the Pacific Railroad goes through the heart Of
the Territory. Colorado, with those grand |
and glorious mountain enclosures, North |
Park, Middle Park, South Park etc., and
with its lofty mountains of Pixies Peak, the
Spanish Peaks and other snow-clad peaks,
and with its head streams of the Platte river
and the Arkansas flowing east, and Of the
great Colorado of the Pacific, is called the
Switzerland of America; but it is far more
beautiful to the painter or poet, and inf
nitely richer in its soil, to say nothing OF its
gold mines, than Switzerland. New Mexico,
further south, has large extent of arid plains
ranges numerous rivers radiating east and
west, invite the settler to their mines of gold,
silver and copper, or to the production of
corn, sheep and cattle. Dacotah is COMPARE
lively poor, as far as it is known, in minerals
and arabic lands; but the navigable Missouri
winds through it for hundreds of miles, and
this of itself will build up in time powerful
State.
So much for these Territories lying east Of
the west side of the Rocky Mountains. The
States and Territories lying west of this great
continental chain, and stretching over the still
loitier chain of the Sierra Nevada to the
Pacific, include the States of Oregon, Cali
fernia, and Nevada, and the Territories OF
Washington, Idaho, Utah, parts Of Colorado
and New Mexico, and the whole of Arizona,
the aggregate area being say eight hundred
and fifty thousand square miles, or equal to
eighteen States of the size of New York.
California, built up from her gold mines is
destined to prove the richest State in the
Union in her grain and fruits aud roots of all
descriptions. Oregon and Washington are
rich in their timber, arabic lands and fish
cries. Idaho has but little to depend upon
beyond her gold mines. Nevada literally
overaows with silver, and has some of the
finest timber and rock-salt in the world. The
Mormons Of the watered valleys of Utah Ga
Territory generally deserD have made the
most productive farms and gardens this side
of California; and from their Great Salt Lake,
at no distant day. millions of tons of salt will
be produced. In Arizona Ga gold and silver
region) are, on the banks OF the Gila river,
some of the finest lands and the ruins of
some of the most ancient cities on the conti-
nent. They are supposed to have been the
cities of the ancient Aztecs, the same people
whose splendid city of Mexico of later date
was the wonder of Cortez.
All this great western section of the United
States, from the tier of States on the west bank
of the Mississippi to the Pacific Ocean, may
properly be placed as part of the Asiatic sec
tion of this continent, while the country from
the dividing line indicated to the Atlantic may
quite as appropriately be called the European
section in its prevailing natural features. In
our Asiatio section, as in Western and Central
Asia, we have grassy plains and deserts and
rocky mountains, with occasional strips along
their sides of timber and numerous streams,
including rivers of considerable length, which
have no outlet to the sea, but are absorbed by
the sands, or, emptying into isolated salt lakes,
are evaporated by the sun, and general dry
ness prevails over all this Asiatic region.
From hundred miles west of the Mississippi
to the towering Sierra Nevada chain, which
follows north the line of the Pacific coast, the
general level of the country is from four to
five thousand feet above the sea, and from its
altitude and prevailing dryness it is among the
very healthiest regions in the world. Like the
AsldtlC OaucdSlAu region, IL Is CalculaLou 10 Oe-
velop the white man in his physical perfec-
tion, the finest race of men and the loveliest
women on the globe.
Ours is, indeed, great country. We are
great with population inside of forty mil
lions; but the western section we have been
describing, with less than three millions of
souls, is capable ITSELF with our modern ap-
pliances of art of sustaining hundred mil
lions, and fifty millions may be conveniently
added to our Southern States, with their
twelve millions. The Pacific Railroad opens
these boundless western regions to the emil
grant, and the abolition of slavery and the
establishment Of equal rights open to him as
invitpgly, whether from Europe or Asia, the
golden gates of the South. AS for the African,
there will be no more importations, and the
living element Of this race on hand will gradu-
ally fade away.
ANICE QUESTION FOR THE JUDGES.
From tts,N Y Times.
We understand that new question of some
interest is exciting attention in various circles:
Where does Commodore James Fisk, Jr.,
reside Conflicting sfidavits on this serious
| subject have been introduced in cases pending
in court-some declaring on the one hand
that he is resident OF Boston, and others
that New York has the felicity OF being his
home. The point is not without interest for
| the Commissioner of Internal Revenue at
Washington, who has taken steps we are in
formed, to have it aecisively settled-as he
would like to know where the income tax from
the Commodore is to be collected. This is not
matter OF SO much I'M portance Just now
| perhaps, as IL will be when he RECEIVERS all
the damages he imsgineS his character to
nave sustained from libsls, and for which he
is now making diligent inquiries in courts of