Daily independent. [volume] (Elko, Nev.) 188?-1915, 1889-04-29
IFrom tue San francisco Post. I

nation the American people were gnt =
cred within q narrow strip along the
Atlantic seuboard. The country NOM
inally extended to the great lakes and
the Mississippi Oh the west, and to the
southern border Of Georgia on the
south. Practically, however, the great
or part of this territory was in the pos
session of fierce tribes of Indians, who
were ready to contest every inch of the
o Vance of tho white race with torch,
rife and tomahawk. 1t was then with
in the memory Of men in their prime
when scarce settlement was wholly
safe from assault at tho hands of the
most bloodthirsty OF tho human rnce,
and in the then recent war of the Revo-
luton the Indians had been employed
with dreadful effect by the English gov
ernment.
The area nominnIly belonging to the
young republic was then 1927 ,844 square
miles against 8, 02G. 494 square miles to-
dsy, exclusive of Alaska. To occupy
this territory the United States had just
after the close of the war in 1854
population of 2,75O,O0O souls. When
the first census was taken in 1890 tie
population had risen to 3,929.2l4.
or this popul 1tion great part WAS
settled in the South. The milder eli
mate, the more fertile soil, tho ease with
which tobacco might he raised, and the
generous yield which the soil returned
to Little labor attracted population more
than the bleak hills Of Now England or
. even moro fertile wilderness Of New
York. Manufactures had scarcely be-
gun in the New England States. The
great water powers that have lined the
rtreams with factories aud support
hundreds of thousands were running
unchecked to the ren. The inventive
genius of Yankee land Ind scu,c e begun
10 show itself, aud the machinery of the
day was crude and scarce. Most of the
articles required were made at home
When manufactures attempted to sup
ply demand for something that the
housewife or the ingenuity Of the farmer
and his sons could not produce they
found themselves hard pressed by the
imports from England. Farming aud
fishing were tue main support Of the
New Eng!anders, and the bard lfs
PROVED less attractive TO popu'ation
than the less laborious pursuits Of tie
men Of the South.
Thus it was that Virginia wns the
first among the HtHtes in popul ton and
wealth. LII 1890 the State had $50
Inhabitants. while PeunsyIvnnIa which
came next i'll Importance bad but 49,.
33. North Curolinn ranked third with
333,75l inhnhitants, Massr..hu-e.tx
fourth with 37S, 1877, aud Now York ii: h
with 30, l20.-.I place that nho was net
destined to occupy long.
The clties were small. When wash
gton was inargulrted New York itself
then, a. now, the nerrnpuiH, had be.
tween 25,000 ard 10000 inhabitants.
nv TUG tlhlo Vi Tue CcISuB OIL IL ~ II Ind
Increased TO only 80. 1871. At the crusu,
OF 100 Philadelphia Lud but 81 ,522 ill.,
habitantS and Boston but Is, O38.
journey OF u few hundred miles was
then about as serious M undo! taking M
an expedition around the world to-.inv.
1he only public conveyance hctwt Ell
tue cities was by stage o'nch, and from,
tue tnfrtquency Of their trips it may 10
Imagined that they've e not very we'll
puironizsd. ShJrtly alter the war il
was thought great iIupro, eiuout Wien
q semi weekly ,ttge service was sstub.
lsbed between New York and Is ,top.
which promised to put the prs.rnusrs
aud mnils through III Slx days. The
trip to Philadelphia Gull bo mad, he
the fast u,nil ia Two days. This swift
COACH was known us thu "Flyiuu NJ.
chipe and WAS une of the wont, ri of
the bn.c. IL tht wished To- 70 It'll fur
ihsr south by public couch he tuvk the
read south again ~ Baltimore. VII, r,
LIE h'laht nruTe ia nvo Gays if The
weather continued gu"d.