The Dalles daily chronicle. [volume] (The Dalles, Or.) 1890-1948, 1892-07-12

towns are all located and built, and
many of them reached the limit of their
growth years ago. The lines of trans
portation are fixed and mostly in opera
ton. Every acre of land is taken up
and improved. The mines are already
open and yielding their maximum re-
turns. Commerce is developed and
waits the growth of population for its
and the opportunities for Investments
that will give fair return are diminish
ing, and the same may be said of labor,
both professional and manual. There
seems after all to western man nothing
in the east to inspire ambition and chal-
lenge the highest and best effort for
growth and accumulation.
The western man is constantly sur
rounded with powerful motivesto make
himself factor in the development of
a yet undeveloped country and resources
of marvellous wealth and greatness. In
the Pacific northwest in addition to
climate of unsurpassed geniaiity and
health, there are thousands of square
miles of rich and fertile lands awaiting
occupancy, where homes rich and beau
| tiful would grow up under the industry
of the frugal young man and his bride;
there are mines of fabulous wealth yet
in the infancy of development, and yet
others undiscovered over which we have
been travelling for years, yet to become
| the basis of fortunes to the men whose
sharp eyes shall discover them. Lines
OF transportation and channels of COM
merce are to be laid and opened up for
the development of vast resources and a
great population rapidly coming.
| Cities and towns are to be located and
builded, both on the coast and inland.
Immense fruit industries are to be de-
veloped, and the richest lumber forests
in the world, of vast proportions, are yet
unclaimed except by Uncle Sam. Man
ufactories of almost every kind await
capital and offer large returns. Inland
and foreign commerce have already
grown to fair proportion, and promise a
growth of great Dimensions. Across the
Pacific we are5shaking hands with s00,-
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part of the earth's surface. The ports
of San Francisco, Portland, Tacoma,
Seattle, Victoria and Vancouver; are
nearer this teeming mass of earth's pop
ulation by thousands of miles, than any
other great shipping portsof the world,
which insures rapid development of
foreign commerce eofgigantic proportions.
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under a tension all the time to make the
most possible of his abilities. He be-
lieves in the west and it's coming great
ness. He puts his life into it with a zeal
that knows no failure. He puts his
money into it in any of the lines men,
toned and invites his eastern friends to
do the same, because he knows that se-
curities and Investments there are
equally good as in the cities, towns and
country of the east, and far more pro-
ductive. He sees the opportunity to
build himself into the educational, re-
ligious and social conditions of a great
and prosperous country, and to come to
the surface as one of its factors, which,
in the comparison, not meant to be in
vidious, leaves the impressions upon his
mind already given of the east, and
leaves him to wonder why more of the
eastern people do not seek homesin the
northwest, and why more of the idle
capital of the east does not seek invest
ment in the same rapidly growing coun-
try.