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three agencies, agriculture, banking, and the carrier, are most important in our part of the country. Upon the wisdom and energy with which they are conducted, upon their coöperation each with the other, and upon the wise and fair treatment accorded them by the public through the forces of Government, depend their success and the continued growth and success of our great Northwestern country.

The American Northwest is a great empire, very young but very strong and full of opportunity for the best kind of human endeavor. Much has been done, and great has been the growth in the last thirty years, as some of these figures will show:— Rh