The Great West : Its Attractions And Resources : Containing a Popular Description of the Marvellous Scenery, Physical Geography, Fossils, And Glaciers of This Wonderful Region And the Recent Explorations in the Yellowstone Park ...
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Of cultivated timber there are 26,744 acres ; apple trees, 306,143; pears, 5582; peach trees, 39,584; plum trees, 48,564; cherry trees, 31,734 ; grapevines, 49,444 ; and 1104 miles of live hedge. SOUTH-EASTERN NEBRASKA, with twenty-seven counties, has a still more favorable record. The popu- lation of this section in 1860 was 16,539 ; in 1870, 71,731 ; and in 1879, 201,976 ; and in 1880 the assessed valuation of the property in this section is $40,483,979. The land in cultivation is 1,994,458 a...cres ; the horses number 100,574 ; the mules, 10,367 ; the cattle, 199,146 ; sheep, 70,285 ; swine, 523,683 ; while the wheat product (estimating as befwe for certain counties that have not made returns) is 8,722,105 bushels, and corn 20,698,982 bushels. The acreage in cultivated timber is 62,769, and of fruit there are 967,457 apple trees, 30,445 pear trees, 1,209,957 peach trees, 96,738 plum trees, and 185,485 cherry trees, 158,367 grapevines, and 5497 miles of live hedge. From the grazing-region west the statistics are not sufficiently complete to warrant their setting forth, though here reside the balance of the pop- ulation (the census of the State for 1879 gives the total population as 386,410, against 122,993 in 1870, or an increase during the nine years of 201 per cent., which is something unprecedented in the history of agri- cultural settlement, and most convincing ' testimony to the excellence of the land), the chief industry being the raising of beef-cattle in immense herds, though in the valleys there is considerable farming, and as settle- 186 THE GREAT WEST.
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