Show THE MISSISSIPPI VALLEY Considering the fight which the people peo-ple of the Mississippi vale have to make against the annual floods of the great river and still of the progress of that region the JlobcDemocrat recalls the utterances of Jonathan Carver aNew a-New Englander who visited the Missis sippl vallsy Just Lcforc the war of the Revolution He predicted that to whatever power or authority this new world will become dependent after it rises from Its present uncultivated stale It will become the seat of empire em-pire for whatever nation may control It Carver was right He probably was Impressed only by the great extent of rich soil and the proba bllilles of Its production and the number num-ber of people which It could support I But he took no such exalted view as did Gov Gilpln fifty years later Gilpln was a civil engineer and following hlii I profession the lopogruphy of every country had something to do with his thoughts To him It was given to see that as the Eastern continent was the section of a pyramid so to speak with streams running down toward the sea In all directions with different peoples on the different streams all talking different languages and always quarreling quar-reling Gilpln saw the Mississippi valley val-ley outstretched a bleat saucer with the streams running from the Ale u ghenles and the Rockies toward a common com-mon point and to him came the vision of one people occupying that immense area all talking the same language I nil having a concert of thought and t unity of purpose and naturally from I that he figured out that right there was I I to be the great controlling power I of this world The picture he drew was an enchanting one hut as evcntu are culminating In fifty years more that moat lucid description will seem u cold statement of positive facts when tom pared with the mighty unfoldment Been In that vajley |