Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-10-29

for permaneut occupation has poured int,
Dakota. notmerely in ono locality, but from
the extreme northern line to the Nebsasks
Inns u
Tie tsssnat tetrltosial xtSaandsr,s Of r..
ofIliaois, YadianK; "a Okls, dm6ee thau
,ltvfts Il Greh q that of Minnesota. That
portion ofthe territory west of the Missouri
river is mainly set apart for Indian res
e~ryations, but al that part east Of the Mis-
souri, river Is rapidly filing up with asri..
cultural settlers, pouring ln daily from Al
points sQfake | compass. The peculiar ad-
vantage of Dakota. fol-. setkers il that all.ths
land Is the property Of the gov ernmsnt NO
part oft have been granted to r~aiisueas. put
all is opepsto RSechsse or for entry. under
the homestead Law. The land itselfi s *.
tremely fertile, and the eastern half OF Dc.
ko,a is capable Of producinelmtr s bread:tutfs
and other articles offood and of merchepIs
disc; than any one ofthe sexi'tins lstsesaA
not excepting Minnesota. q Anothsf
tskes his land unincumbered
BY any mortgages or heavy taxation result.
ing from county debt contracted in aid Of,
railroads. burden which. unfortunately
weighs heavily upon Other, western ssates.
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60 into the territory with their horses, cows
breakine-plovs, and money enough to sns.
bic them to begin work as soon a. they
reach their land. They are not a floating
population they have gone there to stay,
and the settlers Of 1878 and of 1879 will
have their crops selling in Chicago in 1880.
So large has been this population, and SO
much Of the land has been put uuder cult.
vation. that there are no les than six rail
ways now constructing in the state, and,
reaching westward from Minnesota, have
penetrated far on towards the Mis-
souri, river. The james or Dakota river runs
from north to south through the whole ex-
tent of the new state, and enters the Nilsson
ri river al the southern boundary. The six
railroads cross the state and this river from
east to west. The Milwaukee 4 St. Paul
railroad and the Chicago and Northwestern
will be completed TO the Dakota
river BY January next. The Hastings and
Dakota, the St. Paul s. Sioux Civ, the
ci6c are all rapidly pashing. westward
Dakota. These six parallel railways
cross the atate at convenient distances, Civ.
Dakota q systemo Of transportation and
: facility7of reaching market not surpassed
Oy tu6t Oh my OtuSE bt0ic III TUE uuiOu.
The population of Dakota at this time
can hardly be estimated. The inflow Of
during. the last eighteen months
has been very large. On each Of these six
lines of railroad the settlements have bsen
rapid and continuous, as we'll as. along the
Missouri and Dakota rivers. II is not in
any way extravagant to assume that by the
date of the census next June the popula-
ton of the state will not be less than $780,
600, and before the expiration Of 1880 it
may be 100000. There is no reason to Z
pecs that this rate of increase will not con-.
tinue for several years to come and until
the population Of Dakota shall reach 500,
600 to 100000.
1t is more than probable, therefore, that
the territorial assembly of Dakota will, at
the coming session, memorialize congress
to pass an act enabling the people Of Rako-
to to adopt a state constitution. that Dakota
may be admitted as a state into the union.
1t is possible that the formal admission
may be postponed until after the presiden-
tial election, but there is no reason why
congress should delay taking such legisla.
tive steps az will reault in the admission Of
the state of Dakota in January, 1881.