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American Prosperity.
One of the main causes of the prosperity of the great American Republic is its natural resources.

It possesses coal, oil, silver, gold, copper, and all the other mineral ores.

Nature seems, indeed, to have provided almost everything that man needs.

The soil is rich; wheat and every kind of fruit can be grown; but favorable as are these native conditions they could not be turned to any great advantage without the skill and industry of enterprising men.