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estate, that any attempt at the introduction of a different 

 system encounters at once a strong feeling of popular 

 prejudice. 



A new era in the process of the redemption and settle- 

 ment of the wild country has now commenced, and a vast 

 extent of new territory is annually opening to its advanc- 

 ing waves. Wherever a railroad is opened, all the labor- 

 saving machinery and all the comforts and luxuries of 

 civilization are at once introduced, and the newest settle- 

 ments are equipped from the outset with all the physical 

 necessities of civilized life. 



The Eastern man who made the journey to the Missis- 

 sippi thirty years ago found himself, after ten days or a 

 fortnight's weary travelling by canal boat, stage and 

 steamer, among a people differing in dress, habits and 

 idiom, from those he had left; and if he departed from 

 the great routes of travel and penetrated the interior of 

 any of the Western States, he was forced to submit to 

 inconvenience and discomfort for want of what he had 

 always been accustomed to consider the simplest neces- 

 sities of life, but whose names and uses were alike 

 unknown to the majority of the primitive backwoodsmen 

 wha comprised the rural population. 



Now the passage to the Pacific may be made in less 

 time than was then required to reach the Mississippi, and 

 without the surrender of any of the -luxuries which have 

 come to be regarded as necessities of modern travel, and 

 which in spite of the tendency to vulgar display in the 

 upholstering of hotels and public conveyances, have done 

 good service in cultivating and refining the manners and 



