New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1871-06-13

rivers forest and prairie It's farmers prosperous
had swollen to 72o22 by isGo and was found to be 1885,
O57 in 1870 The value OF its farm products reported
farms sg7,e21,Ggl; and its production of wheat
during 1869 about 100000 bushels. II con
es7 All are occupied The remaining await
ement and development Ii is not yet IA years since
nyted from other states Yet the crop raised
during 1870 from the small part OF the state nov oecu
bushes Time will not permit me even 10 Indicate inc
immense resources Of this state IN slate ana
leave Minnesota with the remark that when the
Winter traveller westward, on the Northern racine Kan,
road hall have left her limits and crossed the Ked
Pp, Of The North he will left behind him the cold
est part the road and that most ye c he W 4e
from snow The only other point az wcn ~ meet
liable even under exceptional circuinstCeg' i ' be
with as great depression OF tuo IN Central
in the neighborhood of Fort s'e'ehSo"' III
Dakota. ~ ,so,,pcpa
To us OF the East it seems incredible tna'
the temperature Of the mountains Sous
line running between the 18th and isth parallels shod
bo co mild vet so IL is and the climate Of Washington
Territory along the 4eth parallel, is more equaDle inc
wear round and milder I'm Winter, than that OF n a.
delphia or Baltimore. Indeed, the mean Sfol%
OlyInuia a the head of Puget Sound IL ttI vi VII -,
Va but the jewellers on the sound are strangers
the extreme heat of Virginia summer ana te oinia
cold of its Winter. the neighDOrbOOd OF OpHPi'i
and indeed, throughout Washington dSrro d thriVe
Oregon cattle not housed at any season, M" Inter
npon the grasses they find in the valleys inc Will
climate upon the mountains OF ldahO ,a .a terri
kota is NOR
tOries the buffalo, the elk and antelope nave ir IN
toned to Winter; and domestic cattle worn W
companes are turned into the valleys and herded ana
come out in the Spring fat ana ieady LOT r. wbose
tour of duty. This seems so incredDle 10 uS Mn 90
atmosphere Is 30 much humid, that peg ieaNe W
fOrtify the statement with single authority o cI
self with brief extract from the report OF Gen Key
nolds on his explorations Of the Yellowstone lie Wi-
tered IN 1860 the valley Of Deer Creek ana telatnS
his experience saws "Troughout the whole Of the sea-
march the subsistence OF our animals hau Dee %
tanned by grazing after we had reached camp IN tle az
ternoon and for hour or two between inc GaWH ot
day and time Of starting. The consequence was ae
when we reached Winter quarters there were put Jew
animals in the train that We're IN condition 70
continued the march without generous gram ,d H
Poorer and more brOken-dOwn creatures IL would ne
difficult find In the Spring all were IN as nne coh
don for commencing another seasons Work a. cou i
be desired greater change In their appearance cou1
have been produced even If they had been gran S
and sabe-housed all Winter. Onty one ds t9sa, n
sufficient strength to endure it, Ihts Jdc', tt sfoey
exhausted animals turned on 70 btp on me he bSst
condition, and riM he loss Of D@t one IS me ~ ggs e
forci6ie commentary can make OF me q"0'tD % "'e
grdss and The character Of The winter"
DISAPPEARANCE OF 1.-THE GREAT AMERICAN DESERT"
And many degrees to the north OF our territories are
immense valleys which, If the testimony Of British ON
GERS civil and military, OF missionaries, ana OF suffers
who have dwe there for years may be believed iVai
Minnesota in its wheaproducing capacity and eastern
oregon and Washington Territory in the mlldness OF
their mean temperature. "The Great American Desert
of which these territories formed conspicuous
PeTniorers agree that he would be foOhardy who
should attempt to estimate the value OF their mineral
deposts or tie productions Of their fruits ana he1s
The Mormons have demonstrated that by conducting the
melted snow of the mountains to the foothills and val
eys they can be made TO bloom as the rose and bear
crops of cereals, roots and fruits equal 10
those produced on the best farms g1s III +ns the
apparently inhospitabe regions have been pene-
tated by railroads. aud mining adventure has led to set
Element in different sections to the northern bound
ary of Dakota Montana, and Idaho, are be-
ginning TO discover that the reason America mas
not succeeded in choice qualities Of WOOL OF an ade
not carried her ocs those portions OF her country
and yocanc as are Territories they adapted to
our necessities and their development will secure our
manufacturing and commercial supremacy. WIN their
settlement we shall become the greatest woolprOducng
country of the world, though present production
Gives int small promise of such result TAe sources
and the volume of the wOolcp of 1858 were IN round
figures about follows: