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the United States, equalling in extent all others in 

 the world, is exhibited in the immense harvests now 

 grown and marketed, and in the large exportation 

 of manufactured articles. Consider alone the magni- 

 tude of the corn crop of the present year estimated 

 at two billions and a half of bushels, and perhaps 

 more. How difficult to realize the magnitude of its 

 bulk and value from a mere recitation of the words "two 

 billions and a half of bushels ! ' ' Load it up in the rail- 

 road cars and see how long a train it will make. Cal- 

 culate 30,000 pounds to a car, and a bushel at sixty 

 pounds, and the length of the cars at 45 feet with 

 couplings, and you have a train of over 50,000 miles, 

 enough to go around the world twice. 



Little wonder that good railroad business depends 

 upon good crops, and such as we have this year, 1905, 

 and have had for the past few years give great pros- 

 perity to this wonderful resourceful country of ours. 



At Ogden I found a special Pullman car occupied 

 by several Union Pacific Railroad directors going to 

 Salt Lake City over the new railroad just completed, 

 wholly built by Mormon labor, afterward acquired 

 by the Union Pacific. Accompanying this car was 

 Bishop Kipp, of California, and Commodore C. K. 

 Garrison, of New York. I was invited to join the 

 party over the new road. In our passage down from 

 Ogden we passed through a short tunnel which had 

 not been completed quite wide enough for our car, 

 though nearly so, and going at a fairly brisk speed, we 

 were shaken up and alarmed by our car striking, on 

 both sides of the tunnel, projecting points of rocks, 

 which considerably damaged our car. We went 

 through, however, all right, keeping the rails. We 



