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31primitive condition Julian Ralph, the prominent American journalist, in an able article contributed to Harper's Magazine in June, 1893, says :-- "I have dwelt thus at length upon this brand new bit of America, so desolate now, so inviting to speculation, because it is plain that its future must be grand. How strange thing it is to be able, after reading the signs of development everywhere in the Far West, to point to a vast bottle, unpeopled except by half-wild cattle, and to say, with more confidence than one may prophecy of his own life to-morrow :'Here Will come thousands upon thousands of men and women ; here will soon be seeing vast areas of land fenced in, set with tidy farms and out-buildings, gay with green and yellow grain, dotted with orchards, lively with teams upon a tangle of wagon roads. Railroads will thread the scene, and somewhere - Ah! That would be prophesying to say just where – in the same basin there is certain to raise a city of wealth, size and importance; with factories and wholesale and retail shops, high schools, stone churches, parks and mansions.' Yet it must be so, and the days that are near at hand will see this basin so peopled that the force of this prediction will even then be lost, for its force lies in the fact that there is nothing of all this in the region to-day" | 31primitive condition Julian Ralph, the prominent American journalist, in an able article contributed to Harper's Magazine in June, 1893, says :-- "I have dwelt thus at length upon this brand new bit of America, so desolate now, so inviting to speculation, because it is plain that its future must be grand. How strange thing it is to be able, after reading the signs of development everywhere in the Far West, to point to a vast bottle, unpeopled except by half-wild cattle, and to say, with more confidence than one may prophecy of his own life to-morrow :'Here Will come thousands upon thousands of men and women ; here will soon be seeing vast areas of land fenced in, set with tidy farms and out-buildings, gay with green and yellow grain, dotted with orchards, lively with teams upon a tangle of wagon roads. Railroads will thread the scene, and somewhere - Ah! That would be prophesying to say just where – in the same basin there is certain to raise a city of wealth, size and importance; with factories and wholesale and retail shops, high schools, stone churches, parks and mansions.' |