Download or read book Annual Reports of the Boards to the General Assembly, 1884 (Classic Reprint) written by Presbyterian Church In The U. S. A. and published by Forgotten Books. This book was released on 2018-02-15 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Excerpt from Annual Reports of the Boards to the General Assembly, 1884 Thus the completion of the Northern Pacific Railway Opens to speedy settlement a vast empire. West of Minnesota that railway passes through a country, reached by and largely dependent 011 it, thirteen times as large as the State of New York. The people are pouring into it with marvelous rapidity, not less than 1000 a day locating in southern Dakota during the months of spring and early summer. The mineral wealth, the wheat fields, the timber, the coal fields and fisheries along the Columbia River and about Puget Sound are attracting and will amply support hundreds of thousands in the near future. Partly for this reason the work has taken on a new impetus at the South. There we have been trying to adjust ourselves to a new Condition of things. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.