Evening star., 1927-03-10

across the street, on which was paint
ed In flaming letters, You can never
raise apples in Minnesota--Horace
Greeley" while beneath that arch
were tables bearing specimens OF 100
varieties of Minnesota-grown apples.
Within 20 miles of the city was de-
veloped one of the most famous ap-
Piles in America, the wealthy"
In the early days. all the territory
between Minnesota and the Rocky
Mountains was marked "The Great
Desert" for it was supposed to be
as barren as the Sahara When, in
1868, occurred the Sioux massacre at
New Ulm, the Army chased the In
dians across Dakota into Canada In
charge of the commissary of that pu-
nitive expedition was Maj. George
Brackett, and, as a part OF the meat
supplies, there was a herd OF cattle.
Near Devils LalIe. n. Dak., the herd
stampeded one night and bunch got
away, lost on the prairie. This was
in the Fall.
The next Spring Maj. Bracket was
at Fort Sisseton in South Dakota, and
early in the morning he and other
officers spied buffalo" away out near
the horizon. They decided to have
falo." only to discover that they were
the lost meat of the previous Fall!
The cattle had wintered on the open
prairie, fed upon the buffalo grass,
which they had paved out OF the
snow, and now were as slick and far
as IL corn fed. That was the dis
covery Of the possibilities OF the
desert" for cattle production. which
led to the enormous cattle interests
of the Northwest. where one Teddy
Roosevelt, cowboy, got his training.
Recalling that, in the second Lin
coin campaign, Secretary Seward,
speaking upon the steps of the Mime
sofa Capitol. predicted that the ulti-
mate seat or government of all North
America would be not far from where
he then stood. who knows but that
President Coolidge may be fulfilling
prophecy II he establishes his sum-
mer Capitol mot far from the Sew
ana speech platform? IL Buffalo and
rochester. N. Y, be "Out West" and
II 1t was possibility that a visitor
to Denver might jostle q venturesomo
traveller out in Cleveland, OF course
the Seward mot far" would stretch
to Pixies Peak, the Black Hills or
Salt Lake.
WHICH TIC IAAHS Oh NfTSaL 6rlIaln
permitted the coast OF the Atlantic
to be settled. he took care to stipu-
late that no settlers should 60 beyond
the headwaters of those rivers which
flowed into the Atlantic. All the
Mississippi Valley was "out of
bounds" The King wanted to re-
strain settlement within reach of
royal control, and by proclamation IA
1853 his majesty forbade governors
to grant warrants of survey or pat
ents for lands beyond the sources OF
rivers that flow into the Atlantic. He
prohibited private persons from
settling on these reserved lands west
of the Alleghenies. George WASH
ington was a squatter, in defiance
OF the royal decree, when he sur
veyed in Ohio.
Probably the last great instance
Of inappreciation of the West was
by another Massachusetts,
statesman, Daniel Webster. who, as
Secretary of State a century ago.
decided to settle the Oregon bound
ary dispute with Canada by swap
ping all of Oregon and Washington
Territory for some fishing rights of
Newfoundland. He assumed that the
Far West could never be of value to
the East, because the Rocky Noun
tains were insurmountable. Then
came Mark Whitman. missionary
from Oregon, traversing the noun
tains in Midwinter. to tell the Gov
ernment that they could be passed
and that beyond was that paradise
which Pacific Coast residents even
now confess Is theirs.
Not long ago a Bostonian was In
Salt Lake City and for amusement
he was telling a little Norman child
of the great East:
''You have perhaps heard of Bos-
ton, have you, my child ?"
ton. Our church has a missionary
there.
.lcopyrisht. 1897. by Paul Y. conins.I