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Show 146 6333 4324 in a few years from now, that might not be a very highly developed section of the country, containing many vast re-sources. There is mineralization in a great many sections of the country. There are hundreds of thousands of acres of land that will, as soon as the land becomes more scarce, inevitably be tilled and raise crops. Certain sections that country are ideal for dry farming purposes. Certain other vast areas can be brought under water, and unquestionably will be, some day. As to what the future we may be in copper, gold, silver and other precious metals, of course, we can not offer any conclusive evidence on the subject. The country has only been scratched. It represents one of the last of America's frontiers. But the potentialities ate there. So that if we look at that country as it undoubtedly will be at some day in the future, the trade and commerce that might move over those rivers may be very substantial. A hundred years is only a short time in the life of a nation, as the Supreme Court has said, and in a country as yet undeveloped, that there has not been any great commerce on those streams as compared with the commerce of other streams in old communities, I think that is of no importance. I |