THE CALL OF THE LAND 



Shipbuilding and ocean carrying will again 

 be great American industries. Agriculture 

 will be revolutionized and made to take on 

 generally the scientific character it has here 

 and there begun to assume. Innumerable 

 new inventions and discoveries having in- 

 dustrial value may be confidently looked for. 



The mining resources of the country are 

 as naught to what they are destined to 

 become. With all our grubstaking, pros- 

 pecting, and boring, we know almost noth- 

 ing of the wealth the Rocky Mountains con- 

 ceal. No X-rays yet devised are able to 

 telltale those measureless depths. I venture 

 to believe that all the valuable metals exist 

 there, within reachable distance, in amounts 

 beyond our most liberal calculations or even 

 our wildest dreams. 



I used to be among those who thought 

 that the earth's gold yield was approaching 

 exhaustion. The Rand, Dawson, Nome, 

 and the unexpected prolificacy of Colorado 

 and California mines have taught us the 

 mistakenness of that view, which, it now 

 seems to me, we were foolish ever to have 



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