THE NEW YORK. ASTOR, LENOX AND TILDEN FOUNDATIONS. 1904 Entered according to Act of Congress, in the year 1889, by F. L. Dana, in the office of the Librarian of Congress, at Washington. DEDICATION. 287177 ASTOR, LENOX AND This work is respectfully dedicated to the Inter-State Deep Harbor movement; to the Prairie Schooner Pilots and Pioneers, who discovered a New America; to the Promoters of this Vast Western Empire; and to the "Star of Empire" which has "westward had its way,” until it has paused, never to renew its journey, (there is no other West). It stands fixed, perched upon the crown of the Mighty Monarch of the Rockies-Pike's Peak-the geographical center of the Great West. The Star shines with added lustre, as if happy to find its perpetual resting spot; its brilliancy encouraging the toiling millions of the West to persevere in the work of building an Empire," (Gov. Gilpin's familiar expression early in the '60's), and here will it shine until the Great West shall become the center of the world's supply of breadstuffs, meats, cotton and woolen fibre, gold, silver, copper, zinc, tin, lead, iron, coal, oil and building material. Cheeled May 191.3 PUBLISHED MONTHLY BY THE GREAT WEST PUBLISHING COMPANY, F. L. DANA, EDITOR. PRICE FIFTY CENTS PER NUMBER; SIX DOLLARS PER ANNUM-CASH IN ADVANCE. Advertising Rates Furnished on Application to the Publishers. J. W. NEVATT, Manager Publishing Department. MAY, 1889. DENVER, COLORADO. PART FIRST. NOTICE. "THE GREAT WEST" is published in the interests of the Inter-State Deep Harbor Committee, and its purposes are to inform the people of the United States regarding the immense resources of this "Vast Western Empire" and the importance to the country in general of the establishment of deep harbors on the Gulf coast of Texas. In concise form is presented a history of each state and territory west of the Mississippi River, in the regular order of their organization as states or territories, together with a review of their present resources, future prospects and paramount influence of the Great West upon the political horoscope of the United States. Americans have a too limited acquaintance with their own country. The citizens of the Eastern and Middle States, it is said (and probably true), know more of England and France than of this immense territory which lies west of the Mississippi River, comprising "The Great West." This work is published with the hope that it will aid in the grand missionary work being inaugurated throughout the East by the denizens of the Great West, and awaken within the, breast of every citizen a patriotic pride in his own country and a thirst for information regarding the material resources of the one time misnamed "Great American Desert." |