Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 71, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 April 1904 — BIG FIGURES FROM THE WEST. [ARTICLE]

BIG FIGURES FROM THE WEST.

Marvelous Progress Outlined in a Few . Astounding Sentences. In nn interesting article in the Booklovers’ Magazine Harold Boice furnishes some astounding facts regarding the tremendous growth sf tiie great West during recent years. We append some of the most startling paragraphs: During 1903 30.090 homeseekers were established on free farms in tiie vast regions of Manitoba. Three years ago in one of the counties of the State of Washington there were but 95 voters. Now the population is 26,000 and last year the county shipped $3,000,0110 worth of wheat. The value of gold and fish from Alaska last yenr exceeded $20,000,000. During 1903 60,000 people were milled to the population of San Francisco. The value of buildings erected in Tacoma during 1903 exceeded that of any other year in its history. South Dakota produced over $11X1.000,000 worth of graiu and live stuck last yenr and dug $12,000,000 from the Black Hills.

Portland, Oro., han a greater number of millionaires. population considered, tlinn nny other city in the United State*. The people of South Dakota nro tha wealthiest in the Union, per capita. San Francisco, Tacoina, Portland nnd Seattle shipped during the four months from July to October last year 1,201,841 barrels «f flour to the Orient, an increaae of 7(1 per cent over the year before. Fifty years ago our Pacific coast was without a city. Ixtcotnotive trust bought the Rogen plant. Paterwon, N. J.