Eli As An Economist

"Land is gotng ap all over the United States, in Cansas it has advanoed -'0 per cent,; in Mlehigan, 25 per nt.; in Iowa, 15 per cent.. The good times are here and ui grow better till the farmer gets $1.25 for lus wheát." ''Aiv the inaiiufneturinj Industries prosperlng in proportion ?" "Yee, everywhere. I see new factoiifs maJdng silk stocklngs and underwarc at North Walee, Pa., and St. Joeeih, Jüch.; Unen thread milis have been transparted from Germany. More sugar rettnerlee are going up In and migar beet factories bare gone up in Norfolk, Grand Island, Lincoln, N,-l., Siooix City, Iowa. and Aberdeen, S. D. Two linen faotortee have been etarted in Northern Iowa, and hiere yon Iiave another Unen factory 100 (eet square right here in Minnen polis. Thrrr is a. big chicory factory in Detroit and a half dozen around New York, and a pearl button factory in Omaha. A Belgian farmer at O'Nell, Neb., put in five ocres oí chlcory, and lus brother has sent machlnery to brown and grind it from Brussels. The chlcory interest wlll save $8,000,000 annually frtwn foing to Franco and (Sormany. "So man.v plate glaes tactorlea have grown up," continued Mr. Perkins, "that plate glaea whlch used to sdl for $2 per square foot has dropped lo sixty-five cents. The Chicago, Burl ington and Quincy Railroad has run a track 120 railes west af the Black Hills into the Wind River country, to the door of the Harney's Peak tin mines, and 500 Cornish miners are getting out the ore. Xext year, with an average erop of wheat, we will consume it all. Then, if we can keep the $100,000,000 at gold and sllver that we get out of the moturtains, and trade our $350,000,000 worth of cottoo for easli not 'store pay,' we will roll in wealth." When Eli wius asked why they were not getting out large quantities of tin from the Harney Peak mines, he said: 'Why, this ore is in the mountaln rocks. They have to get water to it x) clean it after it is stamped fine in the stamp milis. They have only had i ia riff on tin plate for 100 days. It toolv five years to get the copper mines of Lake Superior in running order, but when they did get to gong they knocked copper from forty cent to twelve. I 'have been to Harney's Peak, and thoy have tin raines 15x20 miles square. I s;iv ore. any quantities oE it, 90 per cent. tin, and President Jamos Wilson told me that when they get their water ights fixod and stamp imill in, thny vould knock the price of block tin rom $400 per ton ito $300, and Ín ees than 400 days, and begin saving í35,000,000 a year to ithis country You walt ! The Jow tariff fellows and free tra dors are i'eating crow' all over the west. and isix months from now a protective tariff icampaign wlll weep the country." On January let, The Arena Publishia; Co. wiü iasue a new novel, by ïamlin Garland, entitled "Janson Edvards, au Average Man." It is said to be a strong and truthtul picture of life as found by the mechanic in tie city anl the farmer in the west.