"Ah! would n't it be glorious sport to pull out the twenty-five-pound salmon from the foaming waters of the Columbia, to land them, one after another, on the grassy bank, and see the changing light upon their shining scales and then sitting down to dinner to have one of the biggest on a platter, delicately baked or boiled, with prairie chicken, plover, pigeon, and wild duck! We will have it by and by, when Governor Smith and Judge Rice, who are out here seeing about the railroad, get the cars running to the Pacific; they will supply all creation east of the Rocky Mountains with salmon! There are not many of us who can afford to dine off salmon when it is a dollar a pound, and the larger part of the crowd can never have a taste even; but these railroad gentlemen will bring about a new order of things. When they get the locomotive on the completed track, and make the run from the Columbia to Chicago in about sixty hours, as they will be able to do, all hands of us who work for our daily bread will be able to have fresh salmon at cheap

rates.

"What a country! I have drawn a hypothetical line from Milwaukee to the Pacific, not that the region south of it Missouri, Kansas, Nebraska, or California - does not abound in natural resources, with fruitful soil and vast

Mountain House on Peace River, to that region whose beauty charmed Mackenzie and Father De Smet. The Peace River flows through the Rocky Mountains, and at its head-waters we find the lowest pass of the continent. The time may come when we of the East will whirl through it upon the express-train bound for Sitka! It is two hundred miles from the Rocky Mountain House to that port of Southern Alaska,

"The city of Mexico is nearer Minneapolis by nearly a hundred miles than Sitka. Trinity Bay on the eastern coast of Newfoundland, Puerto Principe on the island of Cuba, the Bay of Honduras in Central America, and Sitka, are equidistant from Minneapolis and St. Paul. "When Mr. Seward, in 1860, addressed the people of St. Paul from the steps of the Capitol, it was the seer, and not the politician, who said:

"I now believe that the ultimate last seat of govern ment on this great continent will be found somewhere within a circle or radius not far from the spot on which I stand, at the head of navigation on the Mississippi River!"

nent the water-systems, the mountain-ranges, the elevations and depressions, the soil and climate is in many respects different north of the 43d parallel from what it is south of it. We need not look upon the territory now held by Great Britain with a covetous eye. The 49th parallel is an imaginary line running across the prairies, an arbitrary political boundary which Nature will not take into account in her disposition of affairs in the future. Sooner or later the line will fade away. Railway trains the constant passing and repassing of a multitude of people speaking the same language, having ideas in common, and related by blood-will rub it out, and there will be one country, one people, one government. What an empire then! The region west of Lake Michigan and north of the latitude of Milwaukee - the 43d parallel extended to the Pacific will give to the nation, to say nothing of Alaska Territory, forty States as large as Ohio, or two hundred States of the size of Massachusetts !

"I have been accustomed to look upon this part of the world as being so far north, so cold, so snowy, so distant, and all the other imaginary so's, that it never could be available for settlement; but the facts show that it is as capable of settlement as New York or New England, that the country along the Athabasca has a climate no more severe than that of Northern New Hampshire or Maine, while the summers are more favorable to the growing of grains than those of the Northern Atlantic

coast.

"It is not, therefore, hypothetical geography. Following the 43d parallel eastward, we find it passing along the northern shore of the Mediterranean, through Central Italy, and through the heart of the Turkish Empire. Nearly all of Europe lies north of it, -the whole of France, half of Italy, the whole of the Austrian Empire, and all of Russia's vast dominions.

"The entire wheat-field of Europe is above that parallel. The valleys of the Alps, lying between the 46th and 50th parallels, swarm with an industrious people; why may not those of the Rocky Mountains at the head-waters of the Missouri and Columbia in like manner be hives of industry in the future?

"If a Christiania, a Stockholm, and a St. Petersburg, with golden-domed churches, gorgeous palaces, and abodes of comfort, can be built up in lat. 60 in the Old World, why may we not expect to see their counterpart in the New, when we take into account the fact that a heated current from the tropics gives the same mildness of climate to the northwestern section of this continent that the Gulf Stream gives to Northern Europe?

"With this outlook towards future possibilities, we see Minnesota the central State of the Continental Republic of the future.

"With the map of the continent before me, I stick a pin into Minneapolis, and stretch a string to Halifax, then, sweeping southward, find that it cuts through Southern

Florida and Central Mexico. It reaches almost to San Diego, the extreme southwestern boundary of the United States, reaches to Donner Pass on the summit of the Sierra Nevadas, within a hundred miles of Sacramento. Stretching it due west, it reaches to Salem, Oregon.

Might not a companion-picture be painted depicting Elias Howe watching his mother or his sister making a shirt or suit of clothes? How he must have watched

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