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try, in our soil, in our crops, in our markets 

 and their demands. 



We read with interest of the discovery of 

 our country, and follow excitedly the explorer 

 as he searches out the wonders of a new land. 

 With the prospector, we seem to be climbing 

 the mountains; tramping through the trackless 

 forests, and fording the swollen streams. We 

 picture with great vividness his day dreams of 

 the future as he viewed the country from some 

 lofty height, and in his imagination, located a 

 city at the junction of these streams, and an- 

 other at yonder gap in the great mountain 

 range. We seem to see in our mind's eye, as 

 he did, the smoke curling up from the foun- 

 dries, and we think we can hear (as he did in 

 his imagination) the buzz of wheels in mill 

 and factory. We are apt to be envious of those 

 men whom we think of now as speculators, 

 when we read of their dreams of great coal 

 veins and immense railroad systems carrying 

 to the markets nature's stores of wealth. 



This is only a backward glance at the de- 

 velopment of our country, and while it may 

 be a good thing to look back occasionally, let 

 it be only that we may have a clearer vision 

 of die future. 



I|: shall be the purpose of this book to try to 



