SINCE THE WAR.
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PILING SILVER BRICKS. (From the silver mines in Colorado.) |
[263. How the North and the South have grown since the war; the great West.]—Since the war the united North and South have grown and prospered[1] as never before. At the South many new and flourishing towns and cities have sprung up. Mines of coal and iron have been opened, hundreds of cotton-mills and factories have been built, and long lines of railroads have been constructed.
At the West changes equally great have taken place. Cities have risen up in the wilderness, mines of silver and gold have been opened, and immense farms and cattle ranches[2] produce food enough to feed all America. Three great lines of railroads have been built which connect with railroads at the East, and stretch across the continent from the Atlantic to the Pacific. Into that vast country beyond the Mississippi hundreds of thousands of industrious people are moving from all parts of the earth, and are building homes for themselves and for their children.
1 Prospered: to prosper is to succeed, to get on in life, to grow rich.
2 Ranches (ran'chez): farms at the West for raising horses and cattle, or sheep.
3 The last spikes (one of gold from California, one of silver from Nevada, and one made of gold, silver, and iron from Arizona) were driven just as the clock struck twelve (noon) on May 10th, 1869, at Promontory Point, near Salt Lake, Utah. Every blow of the hammer was telegraphed throughout the United States.
| THE MEETING OF THE ENGINES FROM THE EAST AND THE WEST AFTER THE LAST SPIKE WAS DRIVEN[3] ON THE COMPLETION OF THE FIRST RAILROAD TO THE PACIFIC IN 1869. |
| HOW THEY USED TO SHOOT BUFFALO IN THE FAR WEST. |
| INDIANS ATTACKING A STAGE-COACH IN THE FAR WEST FORTY YEARS AGO; BEFORE THE FIRST PACIFIC RAILROAD WAS BUILT. |