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supply of wool shall thus be increased, and rendered 

 as cheap or cheaper than wool can be imported, I can- 

 not see why this will not become the greatest manu- 

 facturing country in the world, and a vast supply of 

 cheap agricultural products. Woollen-manufactories 

 must spring up in great abundance, and the United 

 States will become exporters instead of importers of 

 woollen goods. One result of this will be that a new 

 and vastly increased market will be created for the 

 agricultural products of the grain-growing States. The 

 soil and climate are not adapted to grain-growing, unless 

 by irrigation, west of the central portion of Kansas and 

 Nebraska ; hence the production of wool in the trans- 

 Missouri country will create a demand for agricultural 

 products there, and manufactories will multiply to still 

 increase the demand. Already the prospect of sheep- 

 growing in this interior region is having its effects. 

 In two years the sheep of Ohio have diminished 2,579,- 

 410 in numbers, in part, doubtless, owing to the con- 

 siderations I have named. It is, in my judgment, only 

 a question of time, and that a few years at most, when 

 sheep-growing for wool will be transferred to this great 

 central region. These are the opinions I entertain, and 

 if they can be of any service in assisting you to attract 

 the attention of our Eastern people to this undeveloped 

 resource of that greater half of our country, I shall 

 proudly feel that I have contributed a very little to aid 

 in developing a vast region of country, and in opening 

 it up as a source of untold wealth. With the vast 

 product of wool that is soon to come from this great 

 interior region, I believe, too, there will soon spring up 



