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thriving towns and cities have sprung up where but 

 yesterday was the home of the Indian or the trapper. 

 The traveler is astonished at finding such a population, 

 supplied with all the refinements and luxuries of civili- 

 zation, in the regions whose names have always been 

 synonymous in his mind with scenes of savage loneliness, 

 and traveling only on the easily accessible routes which 

 have been thus occupied, he is apt to imagine that the 

 most important part of the work is already done, but the 

 idea thus attained of the extent already settled is the 

 best possible standard to enable the mind to grasp the 

 conception of that which remains, when by reference to 

 the map the comparative insignificance of the former is 

 discovered. 



Year by year the advancing tide of civilization is; 

 forcing its way by new routes into this region of mystery 

 and beauty. Year by year new lands are appropriated 

 and the work of preparation for human habitation com- 

 menced, and year by year the sites are selected on 

 which new towns and cities are to grow up and form the 

 central points of supply and distribution of the regions 

 around, which will teem with a dense population. 



We know that all this region of untold wealth which is 

 our heritage, will at no distant day be intersected by 

 railroads, its treasures of mineral and vegetable wealth 

 attracting to it an enterprising and industrious class of 

 inhabitants, while its wonderful developments of sublime 

 and beautiful natural features will render it a central 

 field of attractive interest for the pleasure seekers of the 

 whole world. 



