Show I j 1 I NATIVE r LAND I I The holiday editions of papers from I surrounding States comp In ouo utL time The maRL nmonlflhiiig features I of them all arc tholr record of pro j giesw their advance over a year ago I and the majority o the mighty aggregate j aggre-gate of wealth shown Take Oregon I for Instance Thyrc Is a showing of I noarjy 2JOOOOOO bushels of wheat yf which more limn onpthlrd Wilt exported ex-ported there was also 7483945 of other products aside from wheat exported ex-ported the farm and orchardu of tho I State produced a n product Pro-duct alu dtt 55DO77 i then was a product of 731105 in gold the manufactures or the State Including lumber I yielded 550110125 there were dairy products valued at So159 ICO and the lumber cut measured meas-ured 100000000 feet The bank clearances clear-ances of Portland footed up 91052 3003 for the year the number of children of school age In the Slate is 13240S Those figures show that an empire I I Is expanding there and that Is but 1 I a single State The above figures do not give a full tdca The sixty pages I of the New Tears Orogonfan are j crowded with statistics and the reports re-ports from different counties show I that many of the Industries arc still In their infancy The State is great In agriculture great In commerce 1 great in manufactures Its fisheries are something Immense Its lumber Is I marvelous and Us mines are advancing advanc-ing Into the front rank Then on New Years day the roses were blooming fn the open air in Portland And that I Is but one Slate North of it Js Wash Jngton that is advancing with ever i accelerated momentum Idaho and Montana nrel keeping up with the procession pro-cession Colorado points to her gold yield and her multifold products and all these are but parts of the great Republic which the men of the East really know very little about There was never such a country before as is ours Never were a people so favored never ought a people to be to grateful for blessing received |