Show J yr i e L o u Sl I Los Lo Angeles April The ID-The 19 Thc 19 The Eastis East Eastis Eastis I is movin moving West When the countr country I cast east of the Mississippi River ha had I ai-I al- al already al already I ready become alt an intensely cultivated a agricultural area with great centers of of population and industrial activity the far lr west est est was a land of unfenced lm ranges el deserts and primeval primeval prime- prime ival val forests It took many months I to travel el from the Mississippi Valley 10 to me the West west Those who did im maKe tile trip were hardy pioneers who tilled the soil mined for precious metals I or engaged in hunting and trapping The other da day I was shown an old contract made by a California cat cat- cattleman cattleman cat cattleman in which he he sor his herd of cattle regardless of numbers sex or condition at a head with cal cal- calves calves cal calves ves thrown in The value of the cat cat- cattle cat cattle tle was mainly in the hides for hides th there rc were comparatively few people peo people peo- peo people to be fed nearby and there was no practical means of shipping the meat nor the cattle to the more thickly populated sections of the East How the picture has chan changed ed With the uniting of the Pacific and Atlantic and intermediate territory by transcontinental l railroads eastern people began beg moving West Nest where land was chel cheaper r soil oil was richer and opportunity seemed greater The curtain goes up again and wesee we wesee wesee see practical trips by b airplane and railroad from one side of the continent con continent con con- continent to th the other in thirty thirty six hours The West Coast is now a great center of population California alone is credited with souls one one county rightfully claim claim- claiming ins claim j in ing a population of Rich I valleys are arc producing enormous amounts of foods and grains ains The range land is fenced and big num numbers bers of high grade cattle hogs and sheep are arc raised in the country that was once composed mostly of desert and wilderness Because of the great productive ability of the soils and ranges it was natural that our production of food food- foodstuffs foodstuffs stuffs and meat animals made far greater pro progress ress than our growth in population The result was v as that I the amount of foods needed in the far West was small hart of the pro pro- production production pro I and the final result was that Ithe I the West naturally looked to the I East for a market m r et for for live stock I We are arc now consuming a very lar large e share of the grain ain fruits md and vegetables cattle c and sheep produced produced produced ed in thE lh West and West and we ve v e import the greater percentage of the p pork park rk need need- needed needed needed edon ed on lh the CO Coast Great Grot I meat eat slaughtering slaughtering slaughtering a aid d di dist buting crater have e grown nl up i West but we arc still sending our hides and pelts back East where the wool is fabricated fab- fab fabricated fab fabricated and much of it made into clothing to be shipped to the Atlantic At Atlantic At- At Atlantic lantic seaboard to be tanned and converted into shoes and leather goods Certainly a very large por por- portion portion por- por portion tion of this Western wool and leath- leath leather leath leather er is sold to consumers on the leath-I leath Pacific Paci Paci- Pacific Pacific fic Coast Const Our cotton colton crops are shipped back to the cast east to be fabri fabri- fabricated fabricated despite the fact that our great tire industries and consumer demand for cotton goods is several times greater reater than our cotton colton production Modern transportation has cut down the time between East and West abut but costs of transportation have not decreased and the high cost of settling up the country for for- forbids forbids forbids bids decreased transportation costs There is an enormous economic waste in shipping our raw materials East and shipping back the manufactured products for Western use It is s just as to ship our live livestock livestock livestock stock to the Missouri River and have hae havethe havethe the meat shipped back as it is s to in- in interchange in-I in our other raw materials for manufactured goods j The economic waste is still greater when we realize that raw wool car car car- ries about 40 per per- percent cent ot oC o grease creasa of no Hides and pelts contain about 10 per cent to preserve for long distance shipping If II hand hand- handled handled led It'd directly from the tho point of take takeoff off to tannery this expense would be obviated The favorable climatic and living conditions of the Pacific Coast have attracted influx the greatest population in- in in flux in so history so so that wo we now have tho the labor supply the consumer demand the raw product and every essential for th the building up of our manufacturing centers I Undoubtedly Undo the proper economic setup is to do our manufacturing turing of rw nw materials from the interior on the tho Pacific Coast and our friends in inthe inthe tile the intile interior should keep before them the idea that whenever the Coas Cons gets a new neVI industry it is bound to reflect t something of value to the in in- in tenor Of course the mere shifting of the population from one section of the th country to another except to relieve the surplus here and there means but little to the country as a whole but when we remember r West is capably capable of supplying ng much more nore than will ever be b consumed locally and and- that we are several se thousand miles nearer than the East Coast Const to t two-thirds two of the worlds world's population it is not difficult to see the douse advantage e of Western d develop develop- development ment to meet the demands of foreign trade |