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Bind Country Together: Meanwhile, visionaries preached the value of . railroad to the shores of the Pacific in order o bind country together the country together, people the open paces, and bring the trade of the Orient across he continent. Several government surveys in the 850's discovered feasible routes, but municipal nd sectional rivalry prevented the immediate itilization of any. However, the achievements .Iready made were of such magnitude as to imply hat answers had been found to difficult questions. )ne of them had been where to find the immense urns of capital required for construction.
From time to time throughout the early history of the United States, circumstances seemed to belie even these expectations. In George Washington's lifetime separatist movements in the trans-Allegheny West convinced him that it was necessary through transportation "to supply the cement of interest to bind country together all parts of the Union together by indissoluble bonds." In 1827 when Albert Gallatin, in the negotiations with the British over the Oregon country in the Pacific Northwest, strove to keep the area out of a monarchical system, he could hardly hope for its incorporation into the United States. All he could anticipate was a sister but independent republic.
The four Illinois cities of Rock Island, Moline. East Moline, and Silvis, together with Davenport and Bettendorf, Iowa, form the industrial center of a metropolitan district which include- the greater part of Rock Island County, Illinfi'- ••• Scott County, Iowa. It is in the mid-rich farming area. Though these cities a-arate civic entities, they have a comrmi: interests, industrial, economic, and social. ... bind country together them together, such as their support of tne Tri-City Symphony Orchestra, one of the oHes symphony orchestras in the country. |
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