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dents representing a dozen or so of the leading agricultural 

 colleges of the country and from which an army of trained 

 stockmen are annually developed. 



The promoters and officers of the International have left 

 nothing undone that this great combination of cattlemen, 

 horsemen and business men could conceive, and still, with all 

 they have done, and with all they are doing, the future will 

 present such conditions as will dwarf the doings of today in 

 the cattle and horse breeding industry of the nation. 



Chicago, the great and rich metropolis of the prolific West, 

 with its immense stock yards and packing plants, is but a 

 village in comparison with what it will eventually become, and 

 this is not only because of its situation, but because of the fact 

 that the West is the land of extraordinary resources, prolific 

 soil, an endless source of food supply, and a territory in which 

 live stock of every description can reach perfection. The In- 

 ternational last year amazed the throngs who witnessed it and 

 astounded the Easterners and foreigners who came to see, and 

 there is no doubt that their impressions and experiences will 

 bring others, and in larger numbers to the City of the Great 

 Lakes, and who, through the warm-hearted generosity and 

 kindliness of their Western brethren, will reveal to other people 

 and other lands, the bounty of this wonderful Western country, 

 and the numbers, size, beauty and quality of the animals 

 thereof. 



Chicago, with its brains, wealth, courage, business acumen 

 and splendid position, and the West, with its immense area, 

 soil, fertility and climate, must advance, grow and develop in 

 spite of itself; nothing can stay its progress, nothing divert it 

 from its splendid course, and nothing exceed in quantity and 

 quality the live stock that comes to its market and grows and 

 fattens in the territories around it. 



The immense and far-reaching railroad systems which 

 traverse and intersect this richest of all breeding and agri- 

 cultural sections of this country, and whose carrying trade is 

 responsible to the ranches and farms tributary to these veins 



