Omaha daily bee., 1908-07-27
CARRINCTON PRAISES WEST
General Sees Wealth in Nebraska and
Wyoming,
HOME AFTER TRIP OF 5000 MILES
Writes General Henderson that
BOundIess Prosperity Gratihes
Those who Made the "Ini-
tinI EndeavOr."

Greater bounty and prosperity than the
most optimistic pathfinders and pioneers
ever dared hope for, are predicted for the
states Of Nebraska and Wyoming by Cen
eral Henry b. Darlington. who with his
gallant men perhaps made the initial
endeavor' to open and develop the
northwest territory" in 1854
General Carrington has returned TO his
home In Hyde Park Mass, after travelling
almost five thousand miles through the
country which was his home and battle
field fifty years ago. In a letter to Cen
eral Charles F. Henderson. the veteran
Indian fighter, pathfinder, general and
brilliant lecturer, praises the country which
fifty years ago he said would become great
and yield to the nation the greatest wealth
imaginable.
Writing Of his trip and impressions, Cen
eral Darlington says:
Absence from home but twenty days.
I reached its door on Friday, after travers-
ing, to and fro, nearly 1900 miles, which
enable me to see my old beloved states
Of Ohio and Indiana, Just at the crisis
of their crop venture for the current year.
The going-out and the coming-in betrayed,
first, backwardness of corn and wheat;
some cases, lack Of rain. and in others an
abundance, but always with good color,
the wheat rapidly maturing for the reaper,
while the return, two weeks later, showed
magical Improvement, with wheat already
half cut, and the promise of full fruitage.
Illinois and Iowa, hardly more advancing.
at first, matured with equal p~romptness.
Nebraska had changed, on my return,
with magic profusion and splendor, while
southwestern Dakota and Wyoming, along
the Burlington route rivalled Nebraska
in their promise. Nebraska is simply
wonderful in its agricultural development
and inexhaustible future, and wyoming,
opening up to Billings. is fast following
suit in irrigation, culture and fruitage, des-
tined, with it's vast coal and other mineral
deposits to rival Nebraska in natural re-
sources and production, nowhere to be
surpassed.
Nebraska Wealth Not Overdrawn.
when you said that Nebraska farm
ers produced more values, each year,
than the gold product of the Unied states,
you did not exaggerate, and the half has
not been told, because tillage and labor
have not been able to keep up with the
waiting soil to yield its assured response.
Omaha is wonderful as a city. and
beautiful Sheridan, Wye, is destined, very
soon, to become one of the most delight
full OF summer resorts, FOR It's climate
scenery and social as well as material
values, on the continent. The mines, only
five miles from its limits, can produce,
yes. No. 4 alone, $500 bushels OF coal
! daily, and with a fixed carbon quality of
nearly a. per cent, and free from boti
slate and sulphur, there is no limit to its
facilities for all heating values that its
enterprising people may covet.
Public spirit and redundant energies
as well as faith and courage have dis
titled the ozone from the snow-clad noun
tains about them until architecture, gar
den, public buildings and every attribute
of the most advanced types of modern
civilization, are as prolific of splendid
result as anywhere, everywhere. Ne
braska, through the B~urlington's enter
prise, has made of Wyoming both feeder
and customer, and both will develop TO-
gether in boundless wealth of example
and profit.
II am still tired, a little, from the long
journey, though every accessory TO COM
fort was furnished with unstinted hand
Present to Mr.. Dietz and all who with
yourself and General Morton so minis.
tered to the enjoyment of my day spent
in your midst, my kindest Wishes, and
my own old comrades, Gibson, Peters,
Barnes and others, felt as grateful as
myself for the courtesies enjoyed. sin.
cerely your comrade and friend,
HENRY B. CARRINGTON."