Show TIII uitrir nrsr CUIIIUION or 1111 YZAIa AGO I V1111 lilt I1UUIUIi TODAY The history of the western portion of Ibo Unlled states find like fairy 1 ilory at tbeeiplorellouof an unknown And 10 a ItrKD desire the Tough and Impenetrable Rocky Ikuuliln legion bai miliiid anay likes a snowbank snow-bank the limit American Diierful a Ioralloo ago Is I Dow covered toe a great extent wllli flourishing states and jroireioua coiuniuulllet and the little yellow Mune which milked lb < gold truloaMn I the extreme western pail ol Kiniai according lo tbt gic K ripbleiol our childhood hti calls Jud alt f over a large 1 numb of jx western at let and leirllorlei Filly year ago when Dlflel Wet site ivaiieoretary of itaie ho regardid the territory will of the Itucly Menu Ilium not worth o aim I UK tr the United htttci llinlon thought that the wounll huhl lie the weiiern boundary of our country and Calhoun Bid that he would not Rive a Ouch ol null for all tuv country veil ot the Mliiliilpi 1 river Whatever knew of floss ilia 01 this r 11 IOU II 1 li I evident Iliy hid bo conception ol lu I ir sources lluithat was fifty yean aio auil they may la cxtiitable kniwliiit Uilhlni ol tills untry then Ir there was ID railroad or telegraph liar scarcely even n wagon Hull writ of the Mliil > nrl rlTvr In those Joys At that llwr Iu Weil was that rccloa ou lh Jot111 h of Alleghenies I I Uvtn at tbeprw t flyla enl tial0 many iiuulnnnt I tolo it j the Km till rejard ueittrn 1ontiyl nnl and Onto its lout wtill10 Last I pritillthollotiXtiatiucy M 1110 rJ 01111 to Vlrllllato II big dinner and hIoI a hie rpooeb ond then fde back Sew Ynrl still In K newspaper In ltd fliieully about hli lilp I Lee I The lueilditi ot the population of thli I counliy li I DOW about the border lice or Indiana and Illlnoli Three fourlbi ot the alia ol the Unlle Hialri Hope West lit the Mli > lilpl river and the half way station twten t40 urn n u-rn and wentttn poluti ol Uno e Haiti domain in Hall Francisco rIOA 01 tie who have been nu further wnt than Colonu have 1101 yet travels I morn than onethird of Ihe way 0 or ion ton pomitloni ol Ihe Unlled Slain kveii If I we came from renobioit ort e Cod About one fourth ol the people ot our entire country now reiide well of tile MlMlitlprl river and while III It all thai a great rainy extreme utetn Haiti can do lo I hold thrlr ixipuattot and mote than they cm do tu hold their aueiiable wealth tile western states ate rapidly Increasing their tnpulallon and l much more rapidly do F Aping their wealth I The lobO settle WAS rrlicted br the builder Webiter o lituliin and Uolhoun has become be-come Iho keystone of the aron and one generation morn dtunuitiele Ibo territory writ ot the Mlilnlip1 the greatest In porulalloo I bin greai eit In I wealth and Its vrealil In loll lanel Heal power Itinttrood U1 hrado Ma |