Arizona republican., 1903-07-12

it. Our neighbors and friends. Mir and Mrs. Kell, and little Newly. have just returned from a visit there. and more than likely can verify the professor g statement.
 Napoleon Bonaparte measured men by their success, and nations by their position. resources and the spirit of their inhabitants. Our country holds the most advantageous and glorious position of any other nation. Extend ing as it does from ocean to ocean from the Gulf of Mexico. the largest gulf in the world. on the south to the great chain of lakes on the north. GOV erinS an extent of 3,607 ,604 square miles, of 2,30S, S66, ,560 acres. and taking but one-half as suitable for homes would make 7,2l5,20S farms of 16O acres each. We often see it stated there are more happy homes (the occupant the owneT in the United States than are found in any other government on the globe. We thlnk it a misfortune how ever that any one person should have title to more than 16O acres of God s earth, and we would say it would still be better if it was only an eighty or a forty for we are satisfied that our country would be far greater. wealthiey and more universal contentment, and fewer strikes if it was so.
 Think of our half million cities and towns and a population of about eigh- ty-one million of people. and compare with 127 years ago, the birthday of our republic. Then but thirteen sparsely settled colonies, and a population fall ing short of eight million. No great graineries. No canals. No railroads. No telegraphs. No telephones. Look at it today, and who can picture tn, exalted change!
 The great expanse of this wonderful, country was then the undisturbed home of the red man, the wolf, the panther. the bear. and the wonderful buffalo. It makes the head dizzy to think of the marvellous transformation. Our productive resources are still more wonderful. In noticing the products of this growing country we shall be able to consider but five of our principal cereals-corn, wheat. oats, barley and rye. But one vegetable. the potato, and cotton, hay, sugar and fruits.
 The one hundred and one cereals. grasses,-~ vegetables, dairies, poultry, garden products, seeds, etc, etc, mak- ing a world in magnitude of produc- tions time will not permit even a pass ing notice.
 While we are giving some of these astonishing figures. please give your attention, and, if possible. comprehend with me, the stupendousness of these totals. Corn. 2,250,0 900 bushels, giv- ing 50 pounds to the bushel it makes the bewildering sum 135,000.000 900 pounds, or 675, 100000 tons; two tons to the wagon it would take B. 75O,O 900 teams to move this, the crop of a single year. Giving thirty feet to each team it would make a train of almost 100000 miles long, or about four times around our earth. Corn is King.
 The sugar produced in the United States reaches the enormous sum of eleven million tons of 2,240 pounds to the ton, making a total of 24,6 GOO, 900 pounds. Yet this sum, great as it is. fails to supply our want. We import from foreign countries about four mil lion pounds. making a total consumed in the United States of 2S, $40 0OO, 900; at five cents per pound our sugar bill amounts to the marvellous sum of l. 432, ,000. 900 of dollars. Two tons to the