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the steel and iron for our canal on the ground and forever furnishing 

 employment for thousands in the great Western industrial possi- 

 bilities. 



Was ever such a jigantic or colossal opportunity offered for a 

 truly American system of "Home Expansion" and development of 

 these arid lands and the sleeping billions of ore and coal in the 

 mountains deposited there by our Beneficent Creator and surely this 

 we have a right to without the humiliation of asking permission of 

 Great Britain or any other country, as in our much wanted and surely 

 needed Nicaragua canal. 



Irrigating the West is no longer considered a sectional enterprise 

 but one purely National and we believe this plan of the steel canal 

 being properly shown to congress, they will see it as practical, 

 feasable, logical and of sound political economy, promising greatest 

 returns for the outlay than any plan or enterprise in the history of 

 our grand country. 



