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William Hepworth Dixon, White Conquest: Volume 2, Chapter 35: the situation. (search)
great capitalist to occupy. On the Pacific Slope, from Washington to Upper California, no wild land, remains, and not a great deal of available public land. According to Hazen's Reports, the same rule holds good in Texas, New Mexico and Arizona. Near the Mississippi, the lands are damp enough; but as you march towards the Pacific they become high and arid. Water and wood are scarce, the winter is severe. A valley here and there is fertile, and oases in the desert may be found, as at St. George on the Rio Virgen, but the country as a whole is parched and bleak. In Utah and Colorado nature is less forbidding, but the surface of land fit for ordinary industry is small ; while to the north of these regions the soil is poor, the rainfall light, the herbage scanty, and the cold severe. General Hazen's conclusion is that the Republic has very little land, of the kind that tempts good settlers to remove, now left within her frontiers. If this officer is right in his facts-and high