Western Reserve chronicle. [volume] (Warren, Ohio) 1855-1921, 1871-02-08

where spectators and railroads holt
the land, their advertising aud intiu
enee bring settlers, who buy the lan'
at a large advance on gOveTnmen
price-nOt because IL is better, or a
good, but because it is the irst thel
find, while sections like Dakota Offs
their free lands in vain, because un
advertised. imputed, and almost un
known. With a railroad, southeast
ern Dakota would, within three years
assume her position as q State; anI
her natural advantages would sOoI
bring into the hFst rank of prairit
States. | speak more particularly o
southeastern Dakota, because IL IS the
only part that at present offers induce
ments TO immigrants. The north
ern part Of the territory Will soon Dl
crossed by the Pacific railroad, anG
there is some little settlement ther'
now. on the Red river of the north
butit is separated from the settlements
on the Missouri by hundreds Of milei
Of unexplOred prairie; and we in this
part of the territory know as little o.
the people and happenings there rs o.
New Zealand. A short distance west
VI AAEAE nEkAAA NAAE AN1NA HNA--+N-
which are settled the more friendly
Indian tribes. West of them are the
more hostile tribes, who have secured
their county by treaty. Bat treaties
are insufficient to preserve barbarism
in its irrepressible conflict with eivili-
zatiOn, especially where the adven-
turer is lured by the prospect of such
wealth as that part of Dakota pos
sesses. The Black Hills, in that pOr-
ton Of the State, though but little
explored, are known to be teeming
with mineral riehness-irOn ore is
so nearly pure that il has been used
in its crude state to shoe the horses
OF military expeditions; coal in beds,
scores Of feet in thickness, left bare on
the sides of bluffs by the wash Of the
Missouri, and gold in quantities that
seems 20 be fabulous. These hills,
from accounts given of them by the
few who have visited them, are a re-
ceptacle of all that IL terrible and
awiul-the surface seOrched and dis
figured by the burning of subter-
ranean coal beds; trees and animals
petrified, yet in their natural posi-
tiOns: wild beast and Indians the
most savage, and gold washings the
richest in the great West-a modern
sort of abOminatiOn of desOlatiOn. l
heard an old miner, the other day
one who had been on an expedition
to these hills, say, We had just got
into the mills, and gone up a little
ravine to prospect-and know, from
the way the dirt panned out, that with
a run Of sluices, I could wash $500
a day-but the Indians came upon US
before we had been there three hours,
and we lit out suddenly" Scores of
men in this part Of the territory, are
here but as wayfaring men who have
no abiding city, waiting until some
war OF treaty opens this wondrOus
country to their enterprise.
Dakota has wealth far greater than
that of the Black hills, in the rich
soil, the nutritious grasses, and the
and available water powers
of this part of the territory.
WEATHER.
The fears of a climate unendurably
cold, i'm Dakota, are groundless. Old
settlers say that the weather has been
colder, for a few days this winter,
than they have known for several
years, and none Of the time was so
severe as to keep people indoors, nor
as cold as have expert
enced in Ohio. Indeed the thermOm-
eter does not indicate a degree of cold
which has been felt in the East this
People from the East almost
remark that the present
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pleasant than any they remembered
in "the States" There has been but
little snow, aud since early in NOvem-
Der, no rain, the days mostly clear
aud bright. Psychologists tells US
that il is not so much the cold as a
moist atmosphere combined with cold
that we suffer from in winter. And
the dryness of the air in Dakota
makes it possible to be out of doors
about ones usual business with the
indicating a degree Of
cold, that in the East would eOnfne
people to the neighborhOod Of their
fires.
SOCIETY HAD, AND WANTED.
The great want Of Dakota is settlers.
Having these all other things needful
will be added thereunto. Hard fisted
'aTmers and mechanics are needed,
men who will develop the resources
If these rich pTairies. The non-labor-
ng classes come soon enough without
IN invitation, but working men we
want, and must have. No matter
now poor so they have the right
material in them. Not many Of this
VOIld's rich are found among the set
lers of a new country, and what do
sOme have the sense to leave their
lurse-prOudness behind them. Men
meet here as men and not as the rep
Of so much property. The
lseless and abjured conventionalities
If the more superficial life of older
Iettled parts, are unknown. The late
Judge of Probate of this county hauls
wood to the towns people with an OK
cam; the county Treasurer is always
'eady to do a job of carpentering for
lis neighbOrs when official duties are
lot too pressing; the Recorder keeps
/ peanut stand and runs a farm beside
his other responsibilities; the county
Ilerk, who IS also Superintendent of
lives in a sOd-covered house,
md supports his family by the pro-
,eeds Of a dairy, nor are they any the
ess gentlemen on this account, but
men VINO would fill the same positions
With honor anywhere. WOmen's
Rights are not preached but praetieed.
10 person is prevented, on account Of
ex, from taking homestead or pre-
.mption claim. Perhaps a fourth of
he land taken in Dakota the past
'ear was by ladies. P. II.
The Temperance Captain.
The Boston journal tells the story
,f a temDerance caDtain. An incl