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extraordinary inducements, for it is he whose labors 

 enhance the value of the neighboring lands, and 

 contribute to the traffic of the road. The good 

 effects of this policy have long been apparent. More 

 than a hundred cities and villages now line the rail 

 road, with populations varying from 200 to 10,000 

 or more, having factories, mills, stores, postoffices, 

 schools, churches, and .newspapers. They rapidly 

 increase in numbers and wealth, distributing the. 

 comforts and luxuries of civilized life to the settlers, 

 while they open up unlimited opportunities for pro 

 fitable employment to the business man, the trader, 

 and mechanic. 



Other western States afford diversified openings 

 for all classes of enterprising men, whether rich or 

 poor. Kansas has some thirty thousand farms 

 already hewed out of the forest and prairie, on which 

 at least ten millions of dollars have been invested. 

 Some of her towns have grown up as in a single 

 night. Leaven worth expanded, in three years, from 

 a population of 100 to 8,000, with eight newspapers. 

 All the towns of Indiana, Michigan, Wisconsin, and 

 Minnesota, are growing rapidly. The immigrant 

 can find a farm under the Homestead Law, let him 

 look in what direction he may. 



Missouri has been extensively settled by colonies 

 of German wine-growers. These form communities 

 by themselves, who are covering the hillsides with 

 vineyards, and have already had remunerating vint 

 ages, their wine carrying off the premium at Cincin 

 nati, and coming everywhere into demand. The 

 single town of Hermann, with less than 2,000 inbab- 



