Show WHERE THE TIlE WEST BEGINS No Ko the man who thinks of the prairie lands beside beide the Mississippi ippi as the west is behind the times in his knowledge e of the tho human movement in in America The Theold Theold old lold west is now the center of the coun coun- try The real west comprises the Pacific states But a few patches of the wilderness wilderness wil wil- demean remain Up to the very border of Kin King Edwards Edward's Edwards Edward's Edwards Edward's Ed Ed- wards ward's land hand has hns the white man gone one seeking what is worth while in tho Hie woodland the soil and tho the bowels of the earth itself says Putnam's Maga Maga- zine zinc Even the sea and the lakes have been searched for their wealth The Tho mines may not have been opened except except ex ex- by the test drill but what the borin boring tool has brou brought ht forth has been put under the tho microscope of the geologist geologist eolo- eolo gist and in the furnace of the assayer The saw may not have gone one into the forest but the timber it will furnish has been gauged au ed by bv the skilled eyo eye of the lumberman The valley vaHey and hillside hillside hillside hill hill- side from which no shoot of grain gram or orleaf orleaf orleaf leaf of vegetable e has sprung have havo been examined bv by the men of the northwest Already th they y know what and how much they may brin bring forth whether watered by nature or by the irrigation ditch |