New Ulm weekly review. [volume] (New Ulm, Minn.) 1878-1892, 1880-03-31


nesr a dry On ss,tursl nal king
mud more plentiful than money IN ii
|thissecton 81 count but since even.
ing . beautiful fall Of snow has chang.
ed the whole face Of creation. II 4
decidedly unple asant getting around
but i j very encouraging to the far
mers to have the earth thoroughly
saturated with moisture before they
put in their seed grain. Some people
have already begun: to seed
Local news are decidedly scarce
this week We are pleased to note
that there are no new cases Of sickness
to report, nor any deaths occurred but
what has already been reported IN the
REVIEW We were sorry to learn
that Mr.. Sam Sherman's family bur.
RED their little daughter last Sunday.
She was generally conceded to be one
Of the most interesting and intelligent
girls of her age there was in the town.
The afflicted family have the sympa.
thies Of the community. There is not
case Of dphtheria III or near Iberia
nor has there been at any time for the
past year.
promised to say something about
Dakota in this letter. A great MANY
persons have made enquiries Of me
about the Territory since I came
back. / can assure the readers Of
the Review that was agreeably sur
prised with all ] saw on my trip. /
supposed when I got west Of Lake
Benton l would pass the limits Of ci.
vilization, but was sadly mistaken.
The first station in Dakota is Aurora.
It is q snug little village with stores,
hotels, lumber yard, machine agents
in abundance, P. O., &c The next
town west is Brookings, which is the
county seat Of Bookings Co. It con.
tains fourteen stores Of all descrip-
lions, as dry goods, hardware, drug
stores and splendid school house,
two stories high, which cost about
81, 600, also live newspaper and all
appliances belonging to civilized
community excepting saloon. Coun-
ty license is set at $4,000.
The next town is Volga, the pres.
ent terminus Of the Tracy branch Of
the railroad. It is q thoroughly wide.
awake town. There are four hotels
and all overrun and crowded with
people. Every train brings in a
crowd of land hunters from every
western State. / was amongst. the
land hunters myself and I went As
miles west Of Volga to find vacant
land near where there will be sta.
ton, and / secured land two miles
from plated station. At present
there is not q house nor living inhabi-
tant within thirty miles Of where / 10.
Gated except the headquarters store,
but before two months the cars will
be laundering past my place and
twenty miles farther west to the
James river. As far as the road bed
is graded there are contracts already
let to build business houses at every
station from Volga to the Jim river.
The stations are 5 in number and will
be named as follows Norland,
De Smith, Eriywoise, Cavour and
Huron which will be the name of the
town at the crossing of the Jim river
At this last town all the land has been
taken up within the last month for q
distance of several miles in redius Al
it is intended to be the next division
Of the road. In regard to the surface
it is as level as the ocean in calm
weather, and there is but little vari;
ETY. or change. There is samenes.
as far as the eye can see and mar
might pillow an unbroken furrow 70,
twenty miles. A tremendous tide O
emigration will fellow up the building
of this railroad this summer, anc
many ambitious hardy pioneers vii
keep ahead and be at the Missouri
long before the whistle Of the locomo
tive reverberates along the hills ant
valleys Of this famous river.
Mike Dinneen.
! liberia. March ~. 1880.