Excerpt from The West, From the Census of 1880: A History of the Industrial, Commercial, Social, and Political Development of the States and Territories of the West From 1800 to 1880In the Opening chapter comparison is made between the resources of foreign Countries and the United States. The statistics used in these comparisons for foreign nations are taken from Mulhall's Progress of Nations, for 1880, those for the United States, from the preliminary reports of the Tenth Census, for which I am indebted to Professor Francis A. Walker, the eminent Superintendent of the Census Bureau.I am anxious to express deep obligations to my able Oo laborers, Mr. Henry Gannett and Professor W. P. Jones, the former for the admirable descriptions of Nevada, Colorado and the Territories, and the latter for a large portion of the work on the detail chapters descriptive of the Prairie States. I have also profited largely in preparing the work for the press by the advice and suggestions of Dr. Henry Randall Waite and Professor James H. Blodgett, the latter assisting me in obtaining and arranging the material for the chapter on the Progress of Western Cities.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.