Vermont watchman and State journal. [volume] (Montpelier, Vt.) 1836-1883, 1881-01-12

is higher, and therefore its soil is more
liable to be badly affected by drouth than
Iowa. The treelessness makes the country
almost put on desert air. One may travel
one hundred miles in many directions and
fail to see one tree of native timber.
So far as the territory is concerned agri-
culturally, the same which has been said OF
Iowa can as well apply here Wheat and
corn are the staples. Wheat leads; it is
grown in about the same proportions, at
about the same cost, and in the same means
harvested. It's markets are not so good,
however, for here the Chicago, Milwaukee
& st. Paul railroad plays the tyrant. 1t has
six different branches in the territory, and
six terminal points. On these roads are
located various little villages at which the
neighboring farmer markets his wheat.
These markets are either established by the
corporation or controlled by it. They fix
the price Of wheat and if at an extremely
low figure so that some competing buyer at
tempts to purchase, they simply raise tariffs
OH MIN W SuCu I'LL tAtcuu thuo hO hhNo ~ WI
Improbable undertaking. As there is no
other avenue TO the consumer, the farmer,
ground down in this manner, has to bear it,
and groan and labor on, only to have these
moneyed sharks rob him of future harvests
as they have just done Of the present one
The Dakota farmer is not whit better of
financially thar his Iowa neighbor. mean
the farmer who is American born. OF these
who are not | have next to speak. Proba.
bly, no state or territory is so thoroughly
and essentially cursed by an absorbing class
of foreigners as Dakota, if we make the
possible exception Of California. More thar
half the rural population is Russian, Swed
ish or Norwegian. OF these the Russians
are the most obnoxious as well as the mos
prevalent. They are there in simple hordes
They have already settled in on the bes
lands, and living there wholly refuse an.
social or business intercourse with the out
side world, associating exclusively will
their own"
This plain business man thus concludes
$50 much did observe that ! have dc
sire to relate to your readers that have a
ready stretched this letter to undue propol
tions. But it is with the hope that the
will peruse the article carefully; and if an
among them has the western fever ths
they may look carefully before they leal
They should learn to heed not painted glo
les Of real estate agents circulars the gla
ing and glowing Inconsistencies and falls
hoods of railroad advertisements nor th
FURNISHED editorial portrayals of a subsidize
newspaper press. They should learn th'
the real estate agents are set of ungodl
sharpers and shysters, living on the poe
mans necessities; that the railroads, whethe
land grant roads or not, have an equal inte
est to have parties settle on their roads,
well as to get their transportation fees th'
the railroads own and support and direct Il
tone of the newspapers, else so many cou
not drag out the weary existence whic
they do in that sparsely settled countr
They should, in fact, learn that nine-tent
of all they read of this land of profusene
and promise is an unqualified fabricati'
and absolute humbug, and the remainin
tonth 10 ovordrawn."