The Anderson intelligencer. [volume] (Anderson Court House, S.C.) 1860-1914, 1880-07-01
THE GRRAT. WEST.


THE GREATr WEST.
!. Resources OF the Eands BEYOND the mis-
sissippi.
u The United States is as yet compare
4 ttyely}in Its Infancy. Heretofore Irpu
Iation has been confined 10 the eastern
portion of the continent, even though Il
II much of It rough and unproductiye
The richer portion, the central, was hit
away until now. Men travelled over IL
and said IL was desert or valueless
Grasshvppers swarined from It, and mer
asid people never cai live there: bu,
they are living there, snd thousands more
are coming Some Of the land that was
Ecailed worthless may now be bought fol
fiye dollars per acre, other for twenty-five
dollars, and there Ia considerable call 70,
it. For example, the demand this year
{, for lands In the Red River Valley of the
4; North haa been Unprecedented. In
April the st. Paul, Minneapolis g. Man.
itub. Railroad Company sold 27, ,4O1
acres; and since January 1, 1880, this
company bsS sold 1f3 ,039 acres, the ave.
i rage price being four dollars andseyenty-
three cents per acre. Undoubtedly,
other land.grant roads have sold in the
same proportion.
Il may be asked if there is much OF
this land. Looking from the Mississippi
| River 10 the Pacific we SEQ an area 24-lO
| times as large as all that part of the
| Union east of that river to the Atlantic.
This great West would make thirty seven
States as large as Illinois, which was
once called large State. When this
western territory is as densely populated
as Illinois was in 1870 even, IL will have
over ninety-six million people, whereas
It now has only one.ffili our population.
Surely there is'much land yet to be pos
sessed, Of the very best sort, too-some
of 1t.
An observing traveller in western Nc.
braska recently said: "The land here
was trodden down hard by the buffalo
and herds Of cattle roaming over 1t. So
that when rain fell It did not penetrate
below the dry sod but as soon as the
land is broken sp, and the soil pulver.
lied on the surlhce, tho rain vets down
In some places fifteen feet" If this be
true, we ulny expect that al these vast
grazing areas will be cut up into farms,
and owned by the industrious people who
come to the agricultural States to mako
/ Themselves homes. This same gentle.
man said: "Some idea of the rush of
tenigrants 20 Nebrasks this year could be
gathered from the fact that on the first
week Of March, 1875, the Chicago, Bur.
lilington q Quincy Railroad took sixty.
three car loads Of emigrants into Ne.
braska at Plattsmouth while on the
first week of March, 1886, the Same com.
pany took 169 CT: ilc;s.z<lss= lc;s.<lss= o:s amigrants
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