Omaha daily bee., 1888-01-04
This Missouri Valley.
st. Joe (MO.J Gazette


The development of the resources Of
the Missouri valley forms the most in
teresting aud remarkable chapters of
modern history. Other sections OF the
western hemisphere depended upon the
antediluvian methods of the develop
ment.
The pioneer OF Ohio went there with
an axe and gun upon his shoulder. The
settlers of Kansas, Nebraska, Colorado,
Wyoming, Dakota, Idaho, Montana and
New Mexico are going there in COM
Portable cars, and take with them steam
power, planning mills, and all sort of
labor-saving machinery. Thus man
may go to California for instance, and
take his house with him, and piano and
comfortable roof quicker than he could
have marched accross the plains before
the days of railroads in the west. To-
day the miner rides to the month Of his
prospect hole in Pullman palace car if
he likes, and the farmer ships his i'm
plements, and his household goods and
gods to the very land which the govern
ment gives him for the notary's fees.
In this portion of the great west-the
Missouri valley-enterprise has taken u
strong, fresh, new hold and the New
South" and the New West" are boom
ng together. Our vast resources are
bringing hither every branch of manu-
facture. and the time is not far distant
when along the banks of the Big Muddy
the great manufacturing center Of the
world will exist.
Only little while ago this region i'm
ported its canned vegetables from the
Atlantic coast and its canned fruit from
the Pacific. To-day, because OF the fact
that on one acre of Missouri bottom land
more of such vegetables can be raised
than on twenty acres of New Jersey
sand hills, and because our orchards
can be made as prolific MS those Of Cali
fornia, the trade Of both the Orient and
Occident in the class of goods suggested
has rapidly fallen of and the Missouri
valley has become self-supportipg in
that particular. Morcov-., the land
which is So much better is far more
plentiful, and very much cheaper, and
in little while the Missouri valley,
already an exporter, will be furnishing
the world with canned fruit and vcge-
tables.
In thousands of other directions,
among the comforts, necessaries and
luXuries OF life. the Missouri Valley re-
gion will become the supply depot. Our
fields of grain, hocks and herds of
sheep, cattle and swine, mines of iron,
quarrics of stone, beds of sand and hun
dreds of inexhaustible resources have
already brought hIther planning and
Touring mills, furniture factories, starch
factories, breweries and distlleries,
meat packeries, weaving establishments,
foundries, and many other like enter
prises, and they will be doubled and re-
doubled, many and many times, and to
them will be added hundreds of other
lines of art and manufacture gathering
material for their product on the
ground.
The teeming east should and will
learn OF this, and that there is room
and employment for countless thousands
in all this vast region; openings for in
vestment where energy and enterprise
will prove the talismanic keys to for
tune.
To this fair and fertile section our hos
pitable people invite industries from
everywhere. On all the banners OF the
New West, WHICH gracefully fold and
diape in our salubrious breczes wei
COME the World is emblazoned. :.