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Show Western Prosperity. Pros-perity. Tne nation's prosperity really rests on farm products. So long as these reach up to the value of former years, approximately $7,500,000,000 in 1007, this must continue to be so. There has probably never been a time In this generation when such splendid general crop prospectscxlstcd asat the beginning of May, and which have continue! up to the middle of the month. The empty cars of to-day will all be enlisted to move the wheat, corn, oats,1 and cotton now seeded. One strong Impression on the traveler travel-er In tho trans-MlsslsslppI country is the utilization of the waste places of past years. The unsightly desert of to-day is the blossoming orchard of to-morrow, and the irrigation ditch the advance agent of prosperity in manifold man-ifold forms Some resullsof Irrigation In Texas, which promises to rival Louisiana as a rice-producing state, and in Colorado, where land nowly watered commands from $."00 to $1000 an acre, and that In bearing orchards $3000 to $1000 an acre, are mavelous to behold. Western Texas, cleared of mesqulte and cultivated for cotton, has witnessed an Increase In her annual an-nual rainfall of nearly ten Inches. The change of climate in the new portions por-tions of the country Is-a study by itself. it-self. Nature adapts herself to new conditions and helps those who help themselves Ex. |