The Jeffersonian. [volume] (Stroudsburg, Pa.) 1853-1911, 1872-08-22

the best wheat IN the world. In Denver
Colorado -four is Sl4 per 100 pounds, and
Eastern -four SO, really good argument
to prove ''what Colorado wheat can do"
Leaving the Platte, we follow the line of
small stream, where we find some farms
cultivated without irrigation. Passing
the summit, we are on the head waters
of the Fontaine Que Bouille, where im-
mense herds of cattle and sheep are living
happy, fat, and growing lives. At Colo
rado Springs, one man has 1000 sheep,
and other persons have 100000 herd of
stock in the small valleys around This
is really the heaven for sheep, being high,
dry, and cool in Summer, and not in
juriously cold in Winter, aud having
moisture enough to make the grass excel
lent. Here at Colorado Springs are the
celebrated medicinal waters which make
the place haven for the sick, as we'll as
gold mine for stock -raisers.
Coming back to Denver, examined
stock raising operations there. 1t is be-
coming generally known that all the
country between the British possessions
on the north, the Rio Grande on the
and the Missouri River on the east,
south, the Rocky Mountains on the west,
is destined to be the best stock raising
country on the North American continent,
if not 10 the world. When we begin to
fully realize that we have, between the
Rocky Mountains and the Missouri River,
1,650,0OO square miles, or more than
1000, 100000 acres, which form an i'm
mense pasture, millions of cattle and
sheep will live, thrive, fatten, and
multiply where there are only thousands
now. Millions of buffalo, antelope, deer,
and eiks have for ages roamed over this
SO called desert and lived luxuriantly
on its sweet, nutritious grasses. There
are now about 100000 head of cattle and
sheep scattered over the area mentioned,
and there are certainly room, water, and
food for as many if not twice as many
millions.
There are five great natural grazing re-
cions in the world. The interior of Asia
has furnished rich pasturage Summer
and Winter since the time of Abel, "who
was keeper of sheep" Tie second
great pasture is South Africa. That i'm
mcuse region lying south Of the Noun
taius of the Moon, in 100 north latitude
to the Cape of Good Hope in So south
latitude, feeds immense herds Of gramiu
ivorous animals the year round, and has
done so for ages. The interior of South
America is the third great pasture ground,
and the fourth is Australia. The fifth is
our own trans Missouri and Mississippi
country, as yet imperfectly developed,
but which perhaps surpasses in every
natural advantage any part of the known
world. 1t is not unreasonable to predict
that twenty years from to day America
and Europe can and will be supplied with
meat from the Great American Desert
with its packing houses and pastures.
Most of this great region is as yet un-
tracked and untraveled by human feet or
by tame animals. While thousands and
tens of thousands in Colorado, Utah, New
Mexico, Montana, Nevada, and California
are trying to mine their way to wealth,
it will be well to remember that while the
annual products Of all the mines in the
world in 1860 was only $1,000, 900,
Australia alone furnished more than
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manufacturer in turn by his skill and
labor produced S500,000,000 worth of
goods, and thus the enormous amount of
five hundred millions was added to the
commerce of the world.
Stock raising brings in its train so
many other useful and paying employ
ments that we say it is preferable to
almost every other business in the West.
1t is the sure guide to wealth it will
diversity our productions, give scope to
national enterprise, subsistence and hope
to those who would find homes on the
public domain build up our manu-,
factories, retain and multiply capital in
the country, foster an infinite variety of
industries, increase the fertility of our
soil, aud will make our trade and com
mcrce as ubiquitous as the waters of the
sea.