Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1877-11-05

except where 6thefwi& provided BY conf
tract, and any owner of silver bullion mayd
deposit the A,we 4 any United States mint
oraaa31oAeS6fe coined into such doll
lars for his benefit upon the same terms andd
conditions as gold bullion is deposited for
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THE NEW TERRITORY SCHEME.
d The new territory schsme. proposed for
the Black Hills sppears to be. sspess Of the
'Nebraska politicians Weselsewhsrel pub
lish a synopsis Of the bill which Saunders
q NAhsaRl nsTSl1sassdy islrS6daced in the
senate, to provide fol-. the new, government.
The reader, ifstsallSJ ffsmiiiiasf with Dakota
mattsss viz see, that the reasons urged in
favor Of the movement are without any foun-
.dation in truth The meaeu representation
of the Black Hills section in the Dakota
&s1Ada5ssI one ppointgF laid congress
should understand in this connection that
whenohe Observation-Disclosures of the !
F t's J EsSRs 4: Il e .S s..s|s y tt ssss , siia '1 s
the eoyeas 1p s.t had nosbsssnsesncluded and
under the law every miner in the Black
Hills was a,trespasser. The Dakota legis-I
Elats1feixn assw d The probability that the
treaty would be contaminated, with prudent
f%orethought enacted mining laws, created
counties and provided for organizing them
and gave to that section q representation in
both branches Of the Observation-Disclosures
Hadthe Black Hills been a part Of the
territory in a political sense at the time Of
the sitting, Q fthe legislature,,ait would have
been granted representation on the basis
Of population ust IS every other section wa.
At the next, session of the legislature that
Iportion ofouftterritory will receive its full
allotment of legislators. !
Secondly it 10 claimed that the Black
Hils+ pave four-6fhs the This is
impudence-it is ingratitude and it is wholly
false. So, fay the Black -Hills section has
no. contributed a copper TO the territory
kbu lhe territorial government has paid a
number Of thousands of dollars in transport
ting convicted Black Hills criminals to the
penitentiary and in surveying routes to con-
meet that section with the Missouri river.
y Nebraska and the U. P. Railroad are
probably interested in detaching the Black
Hills from Dakota and erecting an indepen-
dent territorial government there that will
BE friendly 10 their interests; but this should
lhaye no weight With the federal congress.
The Black Hills have just as good mining
laws as. Colorado has and just as good courts
70 administer them. FgIL41 &
The development of the mineral re-
sources of, the Black Hills are just what
Dakota' has been waiting for for the last
sixteen yearsin<ordeF ~to~secure sufficient
population to enable her TO ask admission
as a state. This has now been accomplish
ed, and congress can see that the vast agri-
! cultural section sof~ southeastern Dakota,
with the rapidly growing mineral resources
of the; Black Hillsggiye storD akotaginduce
mems that will soon attract to her borders
q million of people.
he new state; re admitted To- embrace
the Black Hills, will conform in area and
in appearance to The state of Nebraska.
which Immediately adjoins tbns the south.
1t N4esffordshomes to the tens q thous-s
ands Of our eastern countrymen, who are
even now looking westward for relief from
1.-The. oppression which IL! feltinIthe densely
populated sections and over stocked labor
markets Of the east, Id 80.
The people Of all sections Of Dakota are
interested In having { more permanent form
of government The pQlittcians-the Of
fee hunters-msy cry new territory, for
the spoils which such q government at first
affords, but congress-wili~do we'll not to
heed them. gjsG 1Cg
For sixteen years Dakota has waited the
coming Of this dsyr when With the requf@
Mte-ib66nn&6flstf6n dn6 resources second I'd
those Of nossoton Of The ueion, ai,e could
demand her rights, and she now asks to be
clothed In the h%abilaments of statehood and
given q place among her sisters in the