In the year that has just closed all the Customs districts of the United States showed a dk and line of exports of 1 grain. products except the Pacific coast port:
the shipments from Puget. Sound forty-five per cent.
The heavy capitalization and the merger of the northern roads will in the end prove advantageous, not only to them but in far degree to all the people of the ted States, as it will necessitate the oF every local resource, and about. a diversion of the world's ental trade from the Atlantic to the Pacific, from European to American control, and thus quicken into being a thon-sand industries not yet: conceived. To this beneficent stimulus all the country will respond, most of all the yomger common: wealths of the Pacific coast, with th flourishing seaboard cities each with its own ps ar advantages of location and environment.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.