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prosper in the healthy progress present; stock, horses, oxen, 
cows, sheep and swine, grain, hay, vegetables, and the products 
of the dairy, garden and orchard, will all be in active demand, 
stimulated by a home market. Replenishing streams of hardy 
emigrants to our valley will keep pace with our prosperity ; our 
plains, valleys and bottoms will fill up with industrious farmers, 
who will bring their household gods, wives and children, with 
them, and our waste places will soon smile in domestic glad¬ 
ness. With the march of industry society will improve ; church¬ 
es, schools, colleges, newspapers, and other refining agencies 
will fill up the void, gardens will smile in tasteful flowers and 
rosy garlands under the guidance of intelligent women. Arts 
and science will flourish, men and women of genius will locate 
on our shores and find congenial retreat in nature’s chosen bow¬ 
er—capital will seek investment in our busy marts—bankers, 
underwriters and “money-changers” will congregate, and the 
merchant princes from many lands will also abide with us on 
the margin of Puget Sound. 
Westward, Ho ! The scattering at Babel and the westward 
tramp of the human family is still “ marching on.” The mov¬ 
ing throng is flooding our shores ; every water craft from Eu¬ 
rope comes crowded with precious humanity. Our broad coun¬ 
try welcomes every sovereign, and rewards him with 160 acres 
of land ; the mighty stream travels in the direction of the, set¬ 
ting sun. Many halt by the wayside to pitch their tents in the 
inland valleys. A goodly number, however, press forward and 
cross the plains to find a home and a country in that genial 
clime, “ where the setting west merges into the rising east.” 
The Mediterranean of the northwest, and the Valparaiso fring¬ 
ing that calm sea, attracts general attention. The highway 
where the commerce of eastern Asia must land , absorbs think¬ 
ing minds. The Emporium of the Indies , where the products of 
the Orient are destined to enter, will be built upon our shores. 
The building of a large commercial city on Puget Sound is 
simply a question of time and circumstances. “ I can only add 
that the foundation of the great commercial emporium of the 
Pacific has not yet been laid. The site of that city is now oc¬ 
cupied by a small village, the lands of husbandmen, or the 
primeval forest; but as sure as commerce is controlled by fixed 
laws, as sure as the world is struggling to control the trade of 
eastern Asia, as sure as cause produces effect, the foundation of 
