THE IRRIG 1 1 ON A GE. 



west Iowa handled last year 3,000,000 

 pounds (more than 100 carloads) of poul- 

 try. Another firm in the same State mar- 

 keted in a single year 1,500,000 dozen eggs, 

 sending them to the Atlantic, the gulf, and 

 the Pacific coasts, while a third firm ships 

 dressed poultry, not by carload only, but 

 by trainload. 



"The product of packing houses west of 

 the Missouri Kiver sells on the market for 

 an amount in excess of the postal receipts 

 of the United States, while a single insti- 

 tution, engaged in the preparation of ani- 

 mal products, -whose parent plant is in this 

 city, produced last year more than 10,000 

 carloads, 900 tons a day, of manufactured 

 products, in addition to its meats. 



"The packing-houses represented in Chi- 

 cago yield a larger gross income than all 

 the customs-houses and internal revenue 

 collectors of the United States, while the 

 value of the live animals sold on a square 

 mile of ground within the limits of this 

 city is only 15 per cent, less than the gross 

 earnings of all the railroads that enter Chi- 

 cago.^ 



''Either of two packers within the terri- 

 tory I represent pays more for live animals 

 to the enrichment of the ranchman and the 

 farmer than is paid in dividends and offi- 

 cers' salaries by all the railroads in the 

 United States, operating 190000 miles, 

 transporting more than 5,000.000 passen- 

 gers, and moving 500,000,000 tons of 

 freight 



"California is known as a gold-producing 

 State, and her mines have yielded to date 

 in excess of $1.250,000,000, but her or- 

 chards and vineyards are a close second. 

 They produced in 1900 250,000,000 pounds 

 of cured fruits and 7,000.000 cases of lem- 

 ons and oranges. Her farms responded 

 with 32,000,000 bushels of wheat, 25,000,- 

 000 pounds of butter. 5,000.000 pounds of 

 cheese, and 11,000,000 pounds of hops. 

 She manufactured 65.000.000 pounds of 

 sugar, and sent through the Golden Gate 

 more than 1,000,000 barrels of flour, and 

 exported $15,000,000 worth of other agri- 

 cultural products, while her forests yielded 

 500,000,000 feet of lumber. 



''Washington has a fame worldwide for 

 her fisheries, and her forests cut 1,000.- 

 000,000 feet of lumber and 8 000,000,000 

 shintrles The fisheries of Oregon yield 

 $3,OOQ.OOO, her mines $4,000,000, and her 

 farms and orchards $50,000,000. Her man- 

 ufactures, inc'uding lumber, are worth 

 $60,000,000. California, Oregon, and 



Washington estimate more than 400,000,- 

 000,000 of lumber yet standing in their 

 forests, 100,000,000,000 more than govern- 

 ment experts estimate in all the territory of 

 the United States outside that portion 

 which I here represent. 



''Michigan, YVisconsin, and Minnesota 

 have more than a national reputation for 

 their lumber interests, yet the mines of 

 these three Western States produce 75 per 

 cent, of the nation's output of iron ore, 

 more than all the German Empire, and 

 about the same as Great Britain and France 

 combined. 



"Colorado produces nearly 40 per eent. 

 of our gold and more than 40 per cent, of 

 our silver. Montana has produced during 

 the last five years more than 40 per cent 

 of our annual product of copper. 



"I count myself fortunate, therefore, in 

 being permitted to speak for 99 per cent, 

 of the gold and the silver and the copper; 

 90 per cent, of the zinc, 75 per cent, of the 

 iron, all the lead, all the nickel, and all the 

 quicksilver, an aggregate of more than 

 $250,000,000 worth of metallic minerals 

 per annum, nearly 80 per cent, of the na- 

 tion's output. 



''While it is true, as I have stated, that 

 the production of grain within the territory 

 I represent has not increased as rapidly as 

 her population, it is an encouraging fact 

 that her manufacture-, her commerce, and 

 her banking facilities have increased more 

 rapidly than in the nation at large. The 

 United States increased her manufactured 

 products 70 per cent, between 1880 and 

 1890, but the States for which I speak in- 

 creased theirs 112 per cent, during the 

 same period. This country manufactures 

 $13,000.000,000. an amount in excess of the 

 output from all the factories and all the 

 shops of Great Britain and Germany com- 

 bined by more than $3,000,000,000. This 

 enormous showing records an increase of 40 

 per cent, in the last decade, but the terri- 

 tory I have defined made an increase in the 

 same period of 45 per cent. 



"The territory I represent imports, 

 through custom s districts located within its 

 limits, merchandise valued. at $85.000,000 

 and exports $120,000,000 worth. The 

 bunks within the same territory hold 

 $1.500,000,000 deposits, and their clearings 

 exceed $15,000.000,000. 



''But I am not so much interested in the 

 work of any particular location as 1 a in in 

 the inauguration of such means and poli- 

 cies a.s shall open the way for yet increased 



