The Saint Paul globe. (St. Paul, Minn.) 1896-1905, 1898-01-16

states of he West. He is thoroughly
posted on the condition of the West,
and during the chat he gave me some
striking figures showing the status of
the trans Mississippi region. Said he:
The people of the East do not I'M
derstand Us. They have no concep-
ton of the extent of the Western coun-
try nor Of the business we do here I
believe New York and Boston are the
mCst provincial cities of the United
States. ard that our exposition will
be an eye opener to the rest of the
country. Think of it. More than one
fourth of all the people of the United
States live west of the Mississippi. We
have about 20,0G0,000 people and we
are by no means so poor as is common
ly supposed. The assessed valuation
of the property held by the trans Mis-
slsslppi states aggregates more than
$4,000 600, 600. This valuation is not
more than one-fourth of the actual
value, so that we have all told real and
personal property worth at least SEQ
OO0.O0O,0OO, AN average of $1,000 per cap
tia. We are fast becoming a great
manufacturing section. Missouri Kan
sas, Nebraska, Colorado. Utah. Califor-
MIA, Oregon and Washington are rap
IDLY growing as manufacturing states.
SO that the products of our factories
and mills now amount to more than
S1,OOO0O0 a year.
FARMERS BEYOND MISSISSIPPI
Your chief products are. however
agricultural, are they not?"
Ihey are both agricultural and min
eral put the agricultural far exceed
the mineral. Our corn crop is annual
~ worth over two hundred million
collars. 1t exceeds the annual gold
output OF the world by number of
millions. Our wheat crop amounts TO
something like 500 100000 bushels a
year, and we make about $3.50, 900 900
worth of hay every year. The packing
interests are very large. The center Of
me PACKING industry is moving west
ward. Omaha, Kansas CITY and ST.
Joseph now kill enormous quantities
OF live stock and new packing house.,
are being built here and also at ST
Joseph.
AS to minerals, the west produces
SlOO,OO0,OO0 worth of gold and silver :,
year, and its production of copper and
other minerals amounts to more than
that sum. Why, some of the richest
coal fields of the country are in the
west. Colorado claims to have more
coal than Pennsylvania. There is coal
IN Montana and Utah, and we pro-
duce now something like 10000, 900 tons
annually in the trans ississippi
states. We have good iron, and there
VIII be great manufacturing centers in
some of the Western sections in the
future
THE FARM MORTGAGES.
How about the mortgages. sena.
tor?' 80 Ne--''
"A great many of the farm mortgag.
es nave already been paid off, and an
other year or so of good crops will mt
Nepraska and Kansas square with the
world. The terrified banker of the
East need not be afraid of the West.
Our people will pay all that they owe.
and II the present condition continues
we will be soon sending money East
to loan. This is the granary of Amer
lca, and, as long as the people of the
East want to keep themselves fat thew
must pay us for our corn, wheat and
meat. We have in Texas the greatest
OF the cotton producing states We
produce more than half the cotton,
think, every year, and we will ALWAYS
be furnishing the rest of the United
States with clothes, for our wooden
product is equally large. We will al
ways furnish the money in the shape
OF precious metals. and | don't see how
1t is possible for us to be otherwise.
than extremely prosperous in times to
come''
THE TRANS-MISSISSIPPI EXPOSITION.
Leaving Senator Henderson, I next called
at the headquarters of the Trans Mississippi
exposition, and had chat with j. B. HAYNES
one of the secretaries, as to the progress of
me work. With Mr.. Haynes l took a street
car rae out to the exposition grounds and
made some photographs of the buildings as
'hey are now in process of erection. The site