Year: 1863

showing the amount of overland trade and
commerce between the Missouri River and
ell the great country west. Partial statis-
tics have been kept at few points and CIV
en- to the public, but generally the matter
has been neglected or SO loosely stated as
to make it impossible to arrive at an ag-
gregate Of the whole. Single trains cost
ing thousands of dollars outfit and start
from various places on the river and con-
mence their long journey over the phine
to Denver;and the rich mineral regions
and to Utah and even far off CalifogRia
From one point alone. Atchise it was
shown by statistics kept of M business
of some of the leading frsjghters in that
place, that over 1000 200 pounds of
freight was shipped wea During one year.
This Of course did noD include the bust.
ness done by small companies, individuals,
Immigrants s1d transien, speculators.-
Lafge dSoves of stock, horses for breeding
and for labor, are constantly, going vest
And on the other hand, as sort of balance
to this westward flow of business, it is well
ascertained that $1O,OOO,00O fail to cover
the worth Of gold extracted from the Col
orado mines during the past year and in
this connection local paper remarks that,
with the increased knowledge gained by
constant experimenting and the additional
inducements held out to capital, it may
reasonably be expected to See the product
of the mines doubled the present year.


The Committee Of Ways and Means in
their report accompanying their bill estab-
fishing branch mint in Nevada Territory,
says the discoveries of the precious metals
warrant the belief that in few years it
will, in that respect, surpass even the
(" Golden State" A population Of some
10000 or 10000 now people the Terrific
ry, and millions of dollars have been ex-
pended in prospecting and working the
mines. erecting quartz mills with massive
machinery and ingenious separating proc
esses. Several thriving towns and numer-
Gus villages have sprung up. The great
business of the Territory is and mus: be
mining. The estimated yield Of gold and
silver at the present time is $4,000, 900
per month, with constant prospect of an
increase, as new machinery is put in oper-
alton.


But the object Of this article was not to
give statistics of the mineral resources Of
the great west nor of the amount Of travel
and business exchanging and developing
itself. The impossibility of that we inti-
mated in the commencement. We wish to
impress the fact upon the mind of the
reader that all Of this growing commerce
is soon to be tapped, and its carriage
transferred to a speedier means of loco.
motion than any horse or mule power, and
its benefits more evenly y and quickly dis
tributed among the people. And not on
ly this trade will fall tethe Pacific railway
but that of California and the vast country
tributary to the Pacific, whose carriage is
DOW performed by ocean steamships, will
pass overland freighted by the iron horse.
1t is the tapping Of this immense trade
the connecting of channel through
which will be exchanged the resources of
the Pacific coast and those of the farthest
east and to which also our own products
will be tributary-that interests every
Kansan. The work will furnish labor
for the needy and when completed open
fortune to the country.


Situated in the geographical center of
the United States,-so as to receive the
entire protection of Uncle Sans encircling
ponderous waistband" possessing one
of the finest climates and richest.soils in
the world, rich in mineral products, Kan
sas has glorious future before her.


The Pacific R. R. will develope those
resources, build up towns and villages,
furnish us a market, and help to make our
prairies "to blossom as the ross." The
great work is already commenced and the