Excerpt from Magazine of Western History, Vol. 4: May, 1886-October, 1886It will be observed that the most of these items, as population, live' stock and cereals, and the practical zind special metals which have carried our nation, in a century, to the fulfillment of Washington's predictions, and to the very front among the nations of the world, were produced out west. The aggregates given may not be unfamiliar to our princely and international men of commerce, and. To eminent railroad men, but the great body of the people receive such statements with profound surprise and with the skepticism usually' underlying the remark, western sto ries. These immense gains of national strength have come sooner than most people conceive.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.