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Rh that I had noticed that here and elsewhere in the east, the heroes had monuments or statues erected to their memory, whilst our heroes in the west were alive and above ground, and did not need statues or monuments. And as I had found practically an entire city from Washington to Boston, I decided that some of the people should go beyond the Missouri, to the Rockies or the Pacific Coast, and get their ideas enlarged and advance with that bright and enterprising class of people, that are pushing ahead and building up the most prosperous section of our nation.

The State of Massachusetts has numerous important manufacturing towns, the principal ones being Lowell, Fall River, Holyoke and Lawrence, having extensive cotton factories; Worcester, Springfield and Taunton, with iron and steel industries; Lynn, boot,