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Pioche daily record. [volume] (Pioche, Nev.) 1872-1876, 1874-03-03

ADMINISTRATORS SALE

NStbbuNsS MAJ ON y DALE
NOTICE is HEREBY GIVEN TaaT BY
~ virtue OF an order Of sale made by the
District Court OF the seventh Judicial District,
Lincoln County, State Of Nevada. on the 2?d
day OF NOVEMBER, A. d. 1913, in the matter o.
the estate Of William Davis, deceased, / will
sell at public auction, to the high. st bidder for
cash, ut the Court-hsuse. in Phoebe, Lincoln
County, Nevads, on
Wednesday. the IIth Day Of Febru-
ary, A. ID. 1874,
At u O'Clock m, all the right title interest and
estate that said William DAVIS. deceased. had at
the time of his DEATH and all right title and
interest the said estate shall have acquired since
the death of said William Davis in and to the
following described premises, viz: An undiyi.
ded one-half Of that certain tract or parcel of
land, with an undivided one-half of ali springs
or other water thereon. and water rights con.
nected Herewith. situated in the Highland
Mining District, Lincoln County, State Of Ne
yada. surveyed by the County Surveyor of said
1871, and recorded in book "B" II Surveys,
Lincoln County Records, on page l6s. aud In
said survey more particularly described as fol.
lows:
Beginning at the 8. Z. corner Of Marshalls
land, at Highland, and about seven miles west.
erly from Phoebe City. Lincoln County Nevada,
and running thence north 1850 feet to Z stake.
No. 2: thence east, 1851 feet, to stake, No. 3;
thence south, lt50 feet. to a stake, No. 4; thence
west, 1851 feet 20 stake, beginning: containing
81 Y acres, excepting Piece 45o square, sold by
said deceased prior to his death.
Phoebe. November "a. 1873.
D. L. DEAL,
Public Administrator Of Lincoln County.
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n FINE VIEW.

Day before yesterday we took a
sleigh-ride to the highest point in Min
nesota, in company with a gentleman
from Michigan who is looking with ref
erence to opening a mercantile house and
farm here. This point is four miles
West of town on the State road. The
day was not as clear as usual, yet on
looking around nearly the whole coun-
ty lay in sight. Northeastward we
saw the timber on Graham Lakes, some
Is miles distant and moving the eye
further to the east, we saw the timber
on Heron Lake, some % miles distant
from our point of observation, and then
looking to the southeast, we saw,
twelve miles off, the timber on Round
Lake. Ocheeda and Okabena Lakes,
were, of course, plainly seen and appa-
rently near, and Worthington doomed
up on the shore of the West Lake like
young city. Although the country
is not seen to advantage when covered
with snow, the view was beautiful.
When the prairie is green and the lake
sky-blue and Worthington is shining
out in the light of the Summer sun.
there are few prairie views equal to the
one from this point.
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cleansed, and made to yield its share of

cleansed, and made to yield its share of
flour.
Messrs. Sutton & Lundy have invest
ed from SIC, 600 to $50, 900 in their mill.
and when working to their full capaci-
ty, they manufacture over 100 barrels
of flour a day. Their returns from
New York, to which most of their flour
is shipped, will in ordinary times be
from $500 to $500 per day, which will,
in the main. be distributed among our
farmers and laboring men.
This is only the initial mill of a series
which will soon be demanded at this
point. We are in the heart of an excel
lent wheat-producing country, and
with ninedifferent counties now trad
ing here, the wheat which in a few
years will pour into Worthington, will
require a vast system of elevators and
mills to dispose of it. Five to ten
years hence will witness an endless pro-
cession of teams winding along Okabe-
ma Lake, bringing the golden Mime
sofa staple to 4 series of mills like that
of Messis. Sutton & Lundy.
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Last year it was admitted to be great
and established fact. At the begin
ming Of the third year, it is looked upon
az the most prosperous and promising
new community in the State, and its
influence is felt not only throughout
Minnesota, but throughout a large por-
ton of Iowa and Dakota. Worthing-
ton is admitted to be the principal town
and business point in Southwestern
Minnesota, and it is conceded by nom
residents that it must become a citv of
the magnitude of Mankato at least.
AS to the moral influence and stand
ing of the Colony it is beyond that of
any community in the West to which
our knowledge extends. The sale of
intoxicating liquors rs beverage has
for two years been excluded from No.
bles County educational institutions
have been successfully inaugurated and
remarkable energy has been displayed
in church work, the Methodist Episco-
pal Church purchasing Miller Hall at a
cost of some 81 600 and Union Congre-
gational Society building. as before
stated, beautiful church at cost of
between $500 and $4,000. These fea-
lures have shown such high state of
moral and religious development in the
community, that prominent position
and a wide influence are inevitable.
The foundation of the National Colony
is now fairly laid in an enduring moral
and material basis, and the superstruc-
ture cannot fail to be one of the most
remarkable In the West.
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TAXES.

Settlers from other States, where ex.
pensive bridges and roads are necessary
and where crime is rampant, often re-
mark upon the ease and the little ex-
pense with which country like this
can be turned into a garden. There is
not a stream in Mobiles county that
probably cannot be we'll bridged at any
point for 500 or $500, while the mere
earth, with few inexpensive culverts
here and there, will make a capital road
in any direction. 1t will be a long time
before we shall need jails or pauper
houses, or expensive county buildings,
or, in short, heavy taxes. Mobiles coun.
" IS not only refuge from the liquor
traffic but also from heavy taxes.
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THANKSGIVING.

| The colonists of the National COLONY
have originated unique method of OBJ
serving Thanksgiving Day. Two such
occasions have passed since.the Colony
was founded and each was celebrated
by general gathering of the people at
Worthington to partake of bountiful
dinner, followed in each instance by
toasts and responses, music and social
enjoyment. On the second occasion of
the kind between son and 900 persons
took dinner, and under the stimulus
of what is known as the Minnesota
appetite they ate about fifty turkies,
several flocks of chickens, few loads
OF pumpkins baked into pies, and then
browsed over vast fields of other pies,
cakes and articles of food besides.
While numbers of New Englanders
were compelled to forego the customary
THANKSGIVING turkey on account of the
financial pinch, there was no one in the
National Colony who was not invited
to line his stomach with "good capon -
and fat turkey.
One of the interesting features of the
occasion was the awarding of two silver
medal prizes for the best two specimens
OF bread baked from -four furnished by
Messrs. Sutton & Lundy of the Okabe.
ma Mills. These gentlemen contributed
a barrel of their best brand which com.
mands $12 25 in the New York market
when the best St. Louis brand com.
mands but $40 o. The flour was made
from the midtllings of Minnesota Spring
wheat. There were some forty compel.
itors for the prizes. The bread was the
wonder and ad niration of every one,
Here were settlers from New York
Pennsylvania, Ohio. Illinois, and other
States who did not hesitate to declare
that the bread was the whitest. the
lightest and the finest they had eve,
seen. Some who had just arrived in
the Colony, and who had been notified
before coming to Minnesota that thew
must prepare to eat dark bread, were
astonished to see such snow-white and
beautiful oaves made from Spring whea,
-four.
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CLIMATE OF SOUTHWESTERN
MINNESOTA.

Here in Southwestern Minnesota we
get the Minnesota climate at it's best.
We are several hundred miles south of
the region of extremely rigorous win
tiers, while we are still far north of the
ague or malarial line, being about 100
miles north of the latitude of Chica-
60. 1t may be an interesting fact to our
readers abroad to know that Worthing-
ton is several hundred miles south of
the latitude of Paris, over 1,1OO miles
south of the latitude of Edinburgh, and
about l 900 miles south of St. Peters
burg.
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EXEMPTION FROM EVILS.

1t is an old adage that there is no row.
al road to wealth, and it is a true one
that there is no place where men are
exempt from the ills Of life. Neither
is there any frontier life without its
hardships. Let no one come to the Ma.
tional Colony expecting that this is {,
garden spot growing crops without
tending, or that this cream of the prair-
les will produce butter without churn.
ing. Men must labor and wait here as
elsewhere, and must undergo some of
the hardships of pioneer life. What we
claim for the National Colony is that
both climate and soil are exceedingly
favorable; that the Colony managers
are spending tens of thousands of dol.
lars in locating settlers on government
lands and in building up the agricultu.
raj and other interests OF the county,
and that there is no other frontier com.
munlty in the country where men can
start with so many advantages and IA
vorable surroundings.
The claim is justly made that we have
fertile soil, convenient markets, health.
tul climate, and cultivated, Christian
society; that we have superior mail,
railroad, school, church and other priv.
lieges, and that we have no ague, no
consumption, no liquor traffic, no crime,
no ruftians nor desperadoes, no Indians
and no poisonous reptiles. There have
been one or two imported cases of ague
and of crime since the Colony was
founded, but this climate is remarkably
free from both physical and moral ma.
laria.
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MINNESOTA AIR

1t is not probable that Minnesota air
differs in essential constituent elements
from any other air. But there is more
oxygen and less foreign material or i'm
pure vapor to every lung full, than
there is in probably any other air below
the mountain attitudes. In fact, Min
nesota might be called a mountain
State, though there is not, strictly
speaking, a mountain on all it's surface.
The whole State lies at such an alti-
tude that it might be considered a
mountain-top twice as large as all New
England. The Mississippi River rises
i'll this State and flows southwark, the
Red River of the North rises here and
flows northward, and the great Lakes
rise in Minnesota and flow eastward.
In fact, it is down hill in all directions
from Minnesota. Hence we catch the
balsamic breezes that blow down over
hundreds of miles of northern forests
before they have taken up breath of
malarious impurity or lost any of the
virtues gathered from the pine forests.
Where, then, is the top of Minnesota?
Singularly enough, the top is in the
southwestern corner of the State. The
highest lake in Minnesota is Okabena
Lake, whose ''voice of many waters''
lulls the people of Worthington to sleep
on summer nights. The waters of
Okabena Lake flow southwark through
Ocheeda Lake to the Missouri River,
and northeastward through Heron
Lake to the Mississippi River. The
highest point in Minnesota, from
1900 to 1900 feet above the level of the
sea. lies on the ridge about four miles
west of Worthington. Hence we claim
the climate of the mountains. On this
point, the testimony is all one way.
There is no more healthful region on
the Continent. Men in this section
are alive with Il superabundance of oxy.
gen and electricity. Men die here as
we'll as elsewhere, but they live lively
life while they do live. No man cal,
escape the cares of life bv coming to
the National Colony, but he can secure
increased strength to his backbone to
bear them.
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HOW TO CONE TO THE COLONY.

All persons living east and south of
Chicago, should 80 to that city and take
the Chicago, Milwaukee and St. Paul
railroad to St. Paul. The connections
by this route during the greater part of
the year are close, and colonists will
save time and expense by going that
way. Those who have certificates of
membership will save SO rs on each
ticket between Chicago and Worthing-
ton and from 25 to 40 per cent. on
freight. The run from Chicago to this
place is made in from 80 to 80 hours.
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INEBRIATE ASYLUM.

There is strong probability that the
State Inebriate Asylum will be located
in the National Colony. 1t seems to be
conceded throughout the State that
Worthington is the point at which to
locate such an institution if any respect
is to be paid to the fitness of things.
But whether the State institution be
located here or not, we wish to announce
that the National Colony has made the
whole Of Mobiles county an Inebriate
Asylum, the benefits of which are freely
extended to all who come among US.
The inebriate will here find the tempta-
ton withdrawn and Christian sympa-
thy extended to him in his efforts to
reform.
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COST OF CRIME.

A gentleman who visited the Colony
last Summer from q county in Iowa
where there is little liquor sold, said
that crime had cost his county but 500
for the year previous, while in the ad-
joining county where liquor ia freely
sold, crime cost the people So, 200 for
the same year. Mobiles county may
justly claim to be the banner county in
this respect. Thus far crime has cost
us comparatively nothing. Two cases
of assault and battery and three prose-
cutions for selling liquor the first year
constitute the criminal record Of No.
bles county for two years. As popula-
ton increases, there will doubtless be
an increase of crime, but our present al
most absolute exemption from crime:
due chiefly to the exclusion of the liq-
uor traffic, IS fact beyond any question.
We can give the money which would 70
to prosecute criminals and support pau
pers, to the building up of our public
library, our schools, and our churches.
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PROFITS or TREE CULTURE

An annual bounty of four dollars an
acre is allowed by the State for tree
culture on the prairie. Thus the bounty
on forty acres of trees, the amount re-
quired to secure tree claim, is $3.50 a
year. A man may therefore buy farm
near Worthington at $40 an acre, take
tree claim, and pay for his farm neal
town out, Of ten years bounty drawn
from the State, thus making the tree
claim pay for the farm, and having both
farms and the trees besides.'
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GOVERNMENTLAND.

There are several townships in Mobiles
County in which the government lands
remain almost untouched. Tie l,nds
nearest the villages and the railroads
are, of course, taken, but the vacant
lands are near projected railroads, and
post offices and country stores are es-
tablished almost as soon as the lands
are taken.
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REMITTANCEN.

All remittances for Certificates of
Membership, lands or other investments
i'll the Colony, should be made by ex-
press, Post Office Order, or Bankers
Drafts payable to the order of Miller,
HumistOn & Co.
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Il SUMMER RESORT.

Graham Lakes, near the northern
line ofNoblts County, is destined to
become one of the favorite lake resorts
of Minnesota. There are three crystal
lakes, set in a frame Of timber, which
pass under the name of Graham Lakes,
and within radius of six miles there
are some ten or twelve MOI e lakes. For
aquiet resort, with good fishing, boat
ing and bird shooting, we do not know
of their equal. There are at present
very inferior accommodations for visit.
ors at this resort, and but little effort
has been made to advertise the place,
yet last summer from fifty to hundred
persons were turned away for lack of
accommodations, and already letters
are beginning to arrive from parties al
Cincinnati and elsewhere asking if &C.
commodations can be had. Mr.. War.
rem Smith, of the ''Island," we learn,
intends to enlarge his house with a
view to accommodating guests. All
effort is being made to secure the loca.
ton of a hotel and water-cure at these
lakes during the coming summer
There is no finer point on the western
praries for the location of hotel and
water-cure, than the second point on
the Bookstaver place now owned by
Mr.. Ames. This point commands a
view of nearly the whole East lake, and
from the top Of the hotel, on any clear
day, the eye could see twenty lakes, and
the towns of Worthington, Hersey and
Heron Lake. On mornings when there
was looming mirage, the country
would be visible for 80 or 40 miles in
all directions, and it would be worth a
trip from the East to see the wonderful.
ly beautiful and seemingly spectral but
nevertheless real map of lakes, rivers,
groves and towns spread out beneath
the eye.
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QUININE AND WHISKY

One of our druggists informs us that
since he took charge of his drug store
in July last he has sold but one ounce
and one-third ounce of quinine, and
that his sales of whisky for medicinal,
mechanical and chemical purposes have
averaged but one gallon a month. The
fact is, we don't indulge in ague nor
ardent spirits in this community.
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TREE CLATMN

Quite number Of persons who have taken
homesteads and ind that they cannot live on tao
land themselves, are preparing to change their
homesteads into tree claims Whatever may be
said about the tree law Is evident that It Will
secure the object for which 1t was enacted, viz:
the planting of trees. Ten years from now there
will be two or three hundred per cent. more trees
In Mobiles County than there would have been had
not the tree law been enacted. The man who
grows forty acres Of timber on these pfaires does
the county an inesttmable service and IL doing
kind OF farming which ought to lie universally
encouraged, and which cannot fail to pay.
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Mr.. Anderson. who recently arrived from 10.
". has purchased farm across the Lake, and
is.bai1dina house.
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According to the u. s. Census of
1870, Minnesota is the healthiest state
in the Union.
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THE TEMPERANCE EHArURE

The temperance feature of the Ma
tional Colony is a fact. 1t is rigidly en-
forced. Public sentiment sustains law,
and there is not grog-shop in Mobiles
county. The town charter of Wor-
Ellington contains clause of perpetual
prohibition. There was a severe strug-.
gle the first year, but the liquor element
saw that the Colony managers and the
colonists were determined to enforco
the temperance feature and it withdrew.
Prof. Humiston prosecuted three liquor
sellers who attempted to sell liquors
here the first year he retained the best
legal talent which the State afforded,
and the Colony Company set aside
SIS, 600 to push the cases clear through
the Supreme Court, if necessary. The
people promptly formed Temperance
Alliance which held weekly meetings
and public sentiment was kept screwed
up to the sticking point. The liquor
sellers and their friends soon succumbed
and we claim to have the cleanest COM
munity, morally speaking, in the West.
The difference in latitude between
the Winnipeg country, where some Of
the finest wheat and largest vegetables
on the continent are grown, and South
ern Minnesota, where the National Co..
ony is located, is as great as the differ
ence between Northern Ohio and South
ern Kentucky.
Southwestern Minnesota is admitted
to be the garden of the State and to
contain the cream of the prairies.
Southwestern Minnesota has the cli-
mate of the mountains and the soil of
the river bottoms.
TIE wheat crop Of Minnesota last
year was about q, 000, 900 bushels. Min
nesota raises more surplus wheat than
all the states and territories west Of
the Mississippi, not including the Pacif-
ic side.
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Nj. Hunt, Of Grand Rapids, Mich., va. here:
during the week looking with reference t.. open
Ing mercantile house and large farm.
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DAIRY Products.

We learn that Mr.. John Alley is pre-
pairing to open dairy farm in this vi
entity. That this section will in few
years become one of the finest dairying
regions in the West, no one can doubt
who considers our luxuriant grasses,
our numerous lakes and our dry win.
ters. The New York Bulletin, IN re-
cent article, speaks of the steady growth
of this branch of business and of the
high prices prevailing, and says:
1T needs only to be pointed out to be
recognized as a fact, without demon
stration, that this industry offers unu-
sual induce nents to capital seeking in
vestment for, as we have shown be-
fore, this state of the trade is not the
result of any accident, nor of short
crop anywhere, but is the result of
causes which have been steadily grow
ing for the past two years, and are still
operating to All indefinite extension of
the same result. In our last review we
showed why the consumption of this
food was much more rapidly increasing
than it's production, and that the caus-
es were in their nature permanent.
HER8EY AND RIHELOW.
There are two villages, with railroad stations,
In tho Colony besides Worthington. These are
named Hersey, lying in tho northeastern part Of
the county, and Bigelow, lying southeast Of
Worthington. Both are 70 unding into thriving
villages, with postoffice and stores of various
kinds Hersey has quite large hotel for small
village. The country aronnd each Of these VII
lagos is all that any farmer could ask. About
Bigelow it is more rolling and will always bo
well adapted to fruit and wheat growing. About
Hersey the country Is more level, bnt the land
lies beautifully. To our eye, there Il NO finer
prospect in the county than that about Hersey
Seven miles north OF Hersey lie Graham Lakes,
and abont ten miles eastward lies Heron Lake
the timber on each Of the lakes being In sight.
Both Hersev and Bieelow must become the con-
| tiers Of quite = local trade. There Is strong
probability that colony Of Cumberland Prosby-
tertans from Pennsylvania will locate around
Hersey during the coming summer.
THE TREE Law:
Our Congressman, Mr.. Dunnell, has done the
prairie regions Of the West quite q service by his
amended tree law. The leading provisions of
the law are: !, That three wears, instead of ono
IS heretofore, are allowed In which to do tho
breaking, ten acres being required the 6rst year,
ten the second and twenty the third year from
the date ofentry. 2, Four years, Instead of one
as heretofore, are allowed in which to plant al
the trees, ten acres being required tho second
year, ten the third and twenty the fourth. This
Is where quarter section Is taken. 3, When
less than quarter section is entered, the mum.
Der OF acres to be planted bears the same propor.
ton to the quantity entered that forty acres
bears to one hundred and sixty, that Is, twenty
acres OF timber to eighty acres, ten acres OF tim
Der to forty acres, and 50 on. A patent can be
secured by cultivating tho trees eight years in
stead of ten As heretofore.
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COLONY INFORMATION.

We devote page of this issue to CIV
ing information concerning the Nation
al Colony. We hope that our foreign
subscribers, and others to whom this
issue Is sent, will read the paper and
then hand it to their neighbors.