A WONIIERFPL CITY
An American writer gives It aa hla opinion that Chicago la tho cpmmeroUl centre of a surrounding country destined, within a lifetime, to contain 100,000,000 of Industrious and thrifty people, The population of Loo don Is to that of England and Wales as 4 to 26 Should the population of Ghloogo ever' hold the same relation to the population of the ten great States that eno'rolejand art) commercially tributary to her as London holds to England and Wales, her oen«us will, it is estimated, show the enormous total .of 20,000,000 of souls. Nor is this to be wondered at when one oonslders that she is the queen city, the centre and outlet of such an agricultural area as can nowhere else be found on the globe ; that the is already the third manufacturing city of the Amorloan continent; that the total VaJoa of her trade Is about 1,000.000,000 4o!H"ri per year ; and that 15,000 vessels !v r Vu'datand sailed from her wharves M ye>r, with a tonnage of 50,000,000—
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1737, 11 January 1888, Page 2
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172A WONIIERFPL CITY Ashburton Guardian, Volume VII, Issue 1737, 11 January 1888, Page 2
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