The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-02-21

suit See what japan has done since
1t has had a few cargoes of our flour
w neat bread has only come into
common use during the last fifty years.
ana 1t mas been the greatest fifty wears
IN the worlds history. America raises
the pest wheat in the world. and we
are on the eve of demand for it across
the western seas, whose limits are he
yond human ken. This beginning of a
commerce westward to the far East
is one that can be made our own. he
cause it is a nearer market to US than
1t is to Europe.
I'VE are shipping cotton there too.
ana iron, hundreds of cars of both ma
terlals having gone over the Great
Northern this past year, destined for
Japan. The Pacific coast states would
grow without the immence commerce
now certain to flow across the western
ocean, but, with it, there is a splendid
future. Our Western states have gold
ana every kind of mineral and metal
besides multitude of other resources
and climate as inviting and heaIthful
as any under the skies. They will be-
ccme as rich, pOpulous and powerful as
the states of the Atlantic coast.
The latter part of this month the
mountain section of the Blackfeet res
erVation, in Montana. will be opened
under the Federal Mining Laws for
exploration. This range is the same as
that on which Helena is located, where
more gold has been taken out, inside
of the city's corporate limits, than is
known to have come from the whole
klondike district. On this range. too,
Is Butte, the largest and most produc-
tive mining camp in the world or on
TINS continent, at least. Precious met
ais are known to exist in the mineral
pelt OF the coded reservation. and only
government restrictions heretofore
nave kept miners out ProSpectOrs
VINO have gone over the district through
sheer force of desire to see what it CON
tanned. even though it were unlawful
assert that other Helenas and Buttes
will spring up there After discounting
the influence of enthusiasm there is
no avoidance of the fact that there is
a good deal in all that is claimed. and
lively communities in a present unset
tied region are among early possibiIi-
ties.
"Rossland, just across the border
above Spokane, grew to a town of 0O0
people In four years, from bare noun
tain side. and scores of other towns
grew up in the same region at the same
time. L have great confidence in large
future gold discoveries in Montana
Idaho. Washington and Oregon. Last
year these states produced $14 600 OOG
of the yellow stuff. The same effort
that is necessary to make the search
for gold in Alaska applied to these
states would bring corresponding re-
suits.
Last September a miner near Boul-
der Mont, going to work in the morn
Ing, kicked his foot against a cleaning
bit of rock in his path that proved to
be $500 nugget of gold
THE largest nugget we had in our
recent exhibit of gold was worth over
$500, and 1t was the fourth in size
among lot of nuggets found in WASH
, ington. the largest having a value of
over $1,000. Gold is found in over half
the counties in Washington, and, when
the search is prosecuted in that state
| with the same zeal that IS being
thrown into prospecting in Alaska.
there will be big returns for It, When
the wave comes back from Alaska Il
will spend its force among the hills
and mountains of these Western states
and build up new towns and strengthen
the old ones"