The reason may be asked why it is that a country so productive. of such extensive -resources. agricultural. mineral. and commercial. with a genial climate. unexcelled by any in the United States for its healthfulness. should remain coinparatively uninhabited. I will state the reason why this is so. The early emigrants to Oregon crossed the plains. going in their teams drawn by horses or oxen. from the Missouri River to the Pacific coast. a journey of two thousand miles. requiring six months or more to accomplish it. That is the way it was peopled by the hardy pioneers who first settled in the country. At the present time one way of going there is by railway to Salt Lake Valley and thence by stagecoaches or wagons. a distance of five hundred miles. over the intervening sageplains. before the principal settlements are reached.
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