Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-06-07
The Deyclopmcn,orthe West,

Liz H'ill WIZ tlIlcltt tllc HON llilC
truiSm that one-half the world are ig-
norant of what the other half are doing,
did not say a very clever thing, but he
knew what he was talking about. Even
in this day of telegraph and the 40
columns Sunday Intcr-Ocean it is i'm
possible to keep track of the progress
of the world. and it is Il series of con-
slant surprises when one goes to the
bordcr-land of civilization to see what
is going on.
In the paper to-day are presented two
interesting and valuable letters telling
of developments south and west that
will add to the wealth and prosperity
of this nation. In Mexico is a field,
which until recently has been shut out
by impossible barriers, that opens to
the business interests of the west, and
particularly to those of Chicago, almost
incalcuable possibilities. The rail-
roads have crossed the border, and
easy and rapid transportation brings
within easy distance a market for our
mechanical and agricultural products
whose value cannot be overcstimated.
| In the west new lands have been made
accessible by railroad enterprise whose
resources are simply matter of Won
der In the northwest domain that
is as large as Europe has been opened
to settlement, and is rapidly filling up
with farmers whose future harvest
will furnish food enough for the whole
world. The advancement of civiliZa-
ton in the only directions that it can
go has been as regular as it has been
rapid, and the remark Of one of our cor
respondents, who eXclaims that if the
development Of Colorado in the next
ten years is as rapid as it has been in
the last ten what an imperial empire it
| will be at the next centennial, applies
rs well to Dakota and to Texas as it
does to the state he names.
The law of equilibrium is being un-
consciously but carefully observed. The
world will not tip up because of the
wealth that will be dug from the mines
of Colorado, because the heavy grana-
rics of Dakota will hold it down. The
miners and the future manufacturers
of the former state can go on with
their glorious work, knowing that the
field of Dakota will furnish them bread
and the pastures of Texas and New
Mexico will provide them beef. Let
the development of one section be as
rapid as it may be, the development of
the other will keep even pace, and SO
the grand march Of empire westward
will go on.
The Creator of the world in planning
this continent had vast population in
mind. The prairies that were once
thought to be deserts by superficial
man have, under their scanty turf, the
material for the best grain that ever
was grown; the useles mountains that
were supposed to be only for the tor
ment OF travellers are found to be full
of gold and silver, iron and coal. The
Providence who is said to hold the uni.
verse in the hollow of Mis- hand provi.
ded for us all; every necessity is sup.
piled, ecery luxury furnished, and the
logic of creation was as simple rs itwas
complete. Man would have forgotten
something. Where there is no timber
on the frozen plains of Dakota, there is
plenty of fuel under the ground; where
there is iron and other ores in Colora.
do, there is coal and lime by its side fol
the ingenuity and energy of man to
transmute into forms of value. The
lesson is Il live one, and has permanent
emphasis.
The opportunity offered the young
men of the present generation for homes