ed the whole West; but this was
only temporary. Recovery was indicated by the success of the
Trans-Mississippi Exposition at Omaha, in 1898. There were 2,600,000
admissions. The total cash receipts were $1,761,364, and the
stockholders in the enterprise were paid dollar for dollar.

The city of San Francisco had 500 inhabitants in 1840, 34,776 in 1850,
56,802 in 1860, 149,473 in 1870, 233,959 in 1880, 298,997 in 1890. This
progress may be taken as in some sense an index to that of the West as a
whole, far more so than the apparently spasmodic increase in some of
California's smaller centres. Los Angeles mounted from a population of
5,728 in 1870, and of 11,183 in 1880, to one of 50,395 in 1890. Oakland
had but 10,500 in 1870. Ten years later the figure was 34,555; and in
1890 it was 48,682. Stockton leaped from 10,287 in 1880 to 14,424 in
1890. In 1858 Denver was uninhabited. In 1870 it numbered 4,759 souls;
in 1880, 35,629; in 1890, 106,713. Portland, Oregon, had in 1890, 46,000
inhabitants; in 1900, 90,000. In the decade 1880-90 Wyoming grew from
20,789 to 60,705.

The growth and prosperity of this great western section of our country
become apparent from an inspection of the following table, compiled from
authentic sources:

Population. Property valuation. $
STATES. 1870. 1890. 1880. 1890.
California 560,247 1,208,130 1,343,000,000 2,533,733,627
Colorado 39,864 412,198 240,000,000 1,145,712,267
Dakota, Total 14 181 118,000 000
Dakota, North 182,719 337,006,506
Dakota, South 328,808 425,141,299
Idaho 14,999 84,335 29,000,000 207,896,591
Kansas 364,399 1,427,096 760,000,000 1,799,343,501
Minnesota 439,706 1,301,826 792,000,000 1,691,851,927
Montana 20,595 132,159 40,000,000 453,135,209
Nebraska 122,993 1,058,910 385,000,000 1,275,685,514
Nevada 42,491 45,761 156,000,000 l80,323,668
New Mexico 91,874 153,593 49,000,000 231,459,897
Oregon 90,923 313,767 154,000,000 590,396,194
Texas 818,579 2,235,523 825,000,000 2,105,576,766
Utah 86,786 207,905 114,000,000 349,411,234
Washington 23,955 349,390 62,000,000 760,698,72