Its fields will naturally wave with golden harvests, while its inexhaustible stores of coal will quicken every form of human industry, and will furnish an incalculable motive-power to all its multiplying machinery and workshops.
He envisions Iowa's agricultural richness and coal resources driving industry and machinery.
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