Show THE GREAT WEST A correspondent of shenew the New herald lately interviewed ex bov doratio seymour on ins beautiful country seal in the alley of the ulloa during the highly interesting conversation which ensued between the newspaper man anil the experienced statesman the latter expatiated on tho resources and prospects of the great west as follows we havo haedl a clear idea of what tho meat wept mean sunless we think a moment W have grown up with thit the west was the outskirts odthe baet thoro has a did not note now the east is skirt of the west we are roar ginal the wet now the centre of wealth population and political power its growth in the past il trifling compared with what it will be in the future according to the census of 1870 the centre lation was a J attle coith of cincinnati in a little while it will be central between st iodia chicago and cincinnati iti twenty years it willbe between st louis chi cag between the year and alie increase has been Of that number more than i ara west of the alleghenies the increase from 1880 to win w fully of that number will be gained by the west heretofore we have heard of eastern capitalists and western property today to day the wealth of is small compared with eliat of the west although there is more of it in money in the former ibn during the ten years of depression the eat has gained its landa hate depreciated in actual value during those ten y airs of the people gained in the west perhaps are on the land their lands have been going up while the easter were going down in the valley of the mississippi over acres have at a very low estimate garried in value an acre this gives us almont 1000 gain in wealth in land alone the whole history of the world shows that the greatest cities are in the interior because there they find the greatest bentres centres of support london comes nearest to exception but then ably far inland as be in so a country the point ind ca ted between st louis and will in 1890 be the centre oa population of within ten years tho struggle to get the enormous volume of the commerce of that population will be desperate boget ahe greatest share of atthe railroads will disregard the interests of their own states the speaker was then led on to speak on the respective value and importance of tho erie canal and the canadian waterways as outlets of this great production of the west lie concluded hia discourse with tho following statesmanlike thought couched in that simple and lucid language which distinguishes mr seymour if it is true man hurries in america nature hurries too it la but four months between seed time and harvet we have more pomonal wants thau any other people we arc at once an arctic and a torrid people our bouses like ourselves eur selves need and a winter clothing why for the roan here new state who has no carpet in bis couo we would almost lake up collection the reat areas which we t lomina teare divided into areis of production of different articles we imettie southwestern cattle ranges the southern cotton fields the central corn fields the northwestern wheat fields the regions the eastern pastures for dairying AH cheso have products to be moved from one to the other as well as o be acet abroad wo have a country chos union more and more pledged everyday through ilg material inter dependence not merely a union f north east and went but a umon of bread and atef cotton and corn fear not for country the future M well aa the present let its greatness be studied out upon its topography productions and canals and railways will find their proper places in the comprehensive plan |