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Show WHERETHE WEST BEGINS. Xo, the man who thinks of the prairie lands beside be-side the Mississippi as the west is behind the times in his knowledge of the human movement in America. Amer-ica. The old west is now the center of the country. The real west comprises the Pacfic states. But a few patches of the wilderness remain. Up to the very border of King Edward's land has the white man gon.e, seeking what is worth while in the woodland, wood-land, the soil and the bowels of the earth itself. Even the sea and the lakes have been searched for their wealth. The mines may not have been opened except by the test of drill, but what the boring tool has brought forth has been put under the microscope micro-scope of the geologist and in the furnace of the asayer. The valley -and hillside from which no sheaf of grain or leaf of vegetable has sprung have been examined by the men of the northwest. Already Al-ready they know what and how much they may bring forth, whether watered by nature or by the irrigation irriga-tion ditch. Putnam's Magazine. |