 | Montana - 1908 - 460 pages
...What can we ever hope to do wilfli the western coast, a coast of 3,000 miles, rock bound, cheerless, uninviting and not a harbor on it; what use have we...vote one cent from the public treasury to place the Pacific Coast one inch nearer to Boston than it now is." Mr. Robt. C. Winthrop affirmed that "We will... | |
 | William Gilpin - 1889 - 84 pages
...snow? What can we ever hope to do with the western coast, a coast of 3.000 miles, rockbound, cheerless, uninviting, and not a harbor on it? What use have...vote one cent from the public treasury to place the Pacific coast one inch nearer .to Boston than it now is." Gilpin knew better than this, and he would... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - 1889 - 82 pages
...snow? What can we ever hope to do with the western coast, a coast of 3.000 miles, rockbound, cheerless, uninviting, and not a harbor on it? What use have...Mr President, I will never vote one cent from the publictreasury to place the Pacific coast one inch nearer to Boston than it now is." Gilpin knew better... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - Alaska - 1889 - 396 pages
...ever hope to do with the western coast, — a coast of three thousand miles, rock-bound, cheerless, uninviting, and not a harbor on it ? What use have we for this country ? " In crossing the continent by the route we have chosen, one passes through a country... | |
 | Maturin Murray Ballou - Alaska - 1889 - 376 pages
...ever hope to do with the western coast, — a coast of three thousand miles, rock-bound, cheerless, uninviting, and not a harbor on it? What use have we for this country?" In crossing the continent by the route we have chosen, one passes through a country... | |
 | Hubert Howe Bancroft - California - 1891 - 700 pages
...snow? What can we ever hope to do with the western coast, a coast of 3,000 miles, rockbound, cheerless, uninviting, and not a harbor on it? What use have...vote one cent from the public treasury to place the Pacific coast one inch nearer to Boston than it now is." Gilpin knew better than this, and he would... | |
 | United States - 1899 - 1588 pages
...snows; what can we hope to do with the western coast of three, thousand miles — rock-bound, cheerless, uninviting, and not a harbor on it? What use have we for such a country?" Has there ever been a forward movement in our history that some Josiah Quincy, or some college professor... | |
 | Orson Ferguson Whitney - Latter Day Saint churches - 1892 - 1094 pages
...the western coast, a coast of 3,000 miles, rock-bound, cheerless, uninviting, and not a harbor on it? Mr. President, I will never vote one cent from the public treasury to place the Pacific Coast one inch nearer to Boston than it now is." Yet it was to the very heart of this inhospitable... | |
 | C. Dean (of Chicago.) - Chicago (Ill.) - 1892 - 588 pages
...? What can we ever hope to do with the western coast, a coast of 2,000 miles, rockbound, cheerless, uninviting, and not a harbor on it ? What use have we for that country?" This was the erring judgment of the greatest statesman of the age, the highest of the... | |
 | Education - 1893 - 640 pages
...snow? What can we ever hope to do with the western coast, a coast of 3,000 miles, rockbound, cheerless, uninviting and not a harbor on it? What use have we for this country? J < 0 3) J I I 5 THE PACIFIC EDUCATIONAL JOURNAL. Official Organ of the Department of... | |
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... of dust, of cactus and prairie dogs? To what use could we ever hope to put these great deserts, or those endless mountain ranges, impenetrable and covered to their very base with eternal snow? What can we ever hope to do with the western coast, a... 
