Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1888-01-05
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THE MISSOURI VALLEY.
A Region of Vast and Varied Resources
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A Region of Vast and Varied Resources
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st. Joe (Mo)Gazstie: The develop
nent OF the onr of the Missouri
valley forms the most interesting and
Observation-Disclosures OF modern history.
Other sections of the western hemis-
phere depended upon the antedilnvian
methods OF the development.
The pioneer oil 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 gong
them steam power, planning mills, and
Thus n man nay go TO California for in
stance, and take his house with him,
and piano and sewing machine,
aud be living under a
comfortable roof quicker than he could
have marched acroes the plsins before
the days OF railroads in the west. To-
day b miner rides TO the mouth OF his
prospect hole in . Pullman palace car il
be likes, and b farmer ships his i'm
PIGMENTS, and his household goods and
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lnent gives him for the notary's fees.
In this portion OF the great west-the
Missouri yalley-enterprise has taken q
strong fresh. new hold, and the New
South" and the New West. arc boom.
Ing together. Our vast resources are
bringing hIther every branch OF manu-.
faoture, and the time is not far distant
when along the banks OF tho Big Muddy
thA nrook nrfAnter, no~A..sL-s a.
world will exist.
Only . little while ago this region i'm
ported it's canned vegetables from the
Atlantic coast and It's canned fruit from
the Pacific. To-day, because Of the fact
that on ons 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
the trade of both the orient and occi-
dent in the CLASS OF goods suggested has
rapidly fellen3 off and the Missouri valley
has become aelf.snpporting In that par
ticular. Moreover, the land which is SO
much better ~ far more plentiful, and
and very much cheaper. and in g little
while the Missouri valley, already an
exporter, will be furnishing the world
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In thousands OF other. directions.
among the comforts, necessarIes and
Injuries of life, the Missouri valley re-
gIons will become the supply depot. Our
fields OF grain, hocks and herds OF sheep,
cattle and SWINE mines OF iron qnarries
OF stone, beds of sand and hundreds of
inexhanstible resources have already
brought hither planning and Touring
mills. furnitnre factories. starch factories,
breweries and distilleries, meat packeries,
weaving establishments foundries, and
many other like enterpriHes, and they
will be doubled and redoubled, 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 snd will
leas.. eI shis end ...=. ..sTsST.:r Tvvi. and
employ mont Tor countless thousands in
all this vast region; openings Tor invest
ment whore energy and enterprise will
prove the salismanio keys to fortune.
To this fair and fertile section our
hospitable people invite industries from.
everywhere, On all. the banners of the
New West. which gracefully fold and
drape in our salubrious breezes swell
come ths Worldn is emblszoned.