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CHAPTER FIRST. 

 FURTHER INFORMATION FOR THE HOME-SEEKER. 



COME TO THE GREAT WEST! 



ri^HE Western States and Territories aiford unexampled in- 

 -*- ducements to the surplus energy and capital of the East 

 and Europe; and the field which they spread out so invitingly 

 to the emigrant's choice is as wide as it is magnificent. 

 Hundreds of millions of acres of rich land — embraciag bottom 

 and prairie, timber and running water — are open for settle- 

 ment. Counties are to be populated, and towns built, all over 

 the new States and Territories. Each of these latter is an 

 empire in itself. Great Britain could be set down within the 

 borders of any one of them, and yet leave room for some of 

 the German principalities. The records of the Agricultural 

 Bureau at Washington show that, wherever the new soil has 

 been cultivated, both the yield per acre and the quality of the 

 crops produced are better than in the older States. The 

 balance of power is moving westward, and the capital of the 

 nation, it can scarcely be doubted, must eventually ccme also. 



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