The White Pine news. [volume] (Treasure City, Nev.) 1868-1906, 1881-12-03
a HAPPY LAND.
The Red River valley in Dakota

The Fargo, Dakota, Argus thus ex-
patiates upon the Red River Valley
in Dakota, which, il this is true, must
be good place to emigrate to:
"Here no storms or tempests ever
blow. All the breezes are trained To
sing psalm tunes in pianissimo style.
Our widest billiards. are used by
gentle mothers to lull their babies to
sleep. The sun shines ever with a
mellow splendor that calls to mind
the farfamed Happy Valley of Ras-
selas, and there is just frost enough
to turn the elm leaves golden. No
Summer droughts or Winter floods
spread devastation over the fields
and hopes OF the husbandman. No
army worms or grasshoppers sweep
these fertile plains and valleys with
nibbling desolation. No hail storms
rattle their destroying musketry up
on the grains and fruits and plate
glass window panes of this elysium,
except now and then just enough to
furnish business to the Fargo Hail
Insusurance Company. Bananas
bloom in November, and young or
anges are dug the day before Chlis-
mas. Raislns and striped stick candy
ripen always just in time for Santa
Claus peddler wagon, with his REIN
deer team and '.his little round
stomach that shakes when he laughs
like a bowlfull OF jelly" Pineapples
and figs grow spontaneously on thist-
les everywhere from Fargo 10 Grand
Forks, while "huckleberries" flour
ish all the year round at Pembina,
and Lounsberries bear abundantly
and of large size and flavor about
Bismark and Mandan. Spring roses
blossom on the plain, Gentle Annie,
for New Years posies and potatoes
grow as big as beer kegs on all the
cottonwood trees. Cabbage heads of
senatorial size give forth the fra
GRANGE of the iessamine and honey
suckle TO hun ming birds AS large as
large canvas back ducks and clad in
all the prism attic glories of the aurora
borealis. We hatch our own wild
geese, Of such dimensions that they
are taken for winged hippopotami,
on lakes Of never freezing rosewater
and cologne. Billiards, teulpests,
tornadoe<, hurricanes and rascally
political breezes come to this modern
Eden only as dimly understood wall
ings Of distant regions and peoples,
who do not know enough to find
their way to the sole remaining
quarter section OF Paradise in all the
western world. Here no wave OF
trouble ever rolls across the peaceful
breast, and the prosperous people
who raise infallibly twenty-five BUSH
els OF Me-. ! Hard to the acre OF land
that COSTS them nothing, and get Sl.35
"A bushel for it, can calmly smile at
Satan's rage and face frowning,
because less fortunate, world"
..Dakotans, Red River Valleyans,
Fargoans sympathize deeply and ten
derlv with the storm-swept, bleeding
aud desolate ones of Iowa, Kansas,
Nebraska and Missouri, and with the
drought beggared ones of Illinois and
Indiana; and had they the power,
would never permit hurricanes or tire
Summer furnace heats to smite the
hopeless sufferers more. But as
storms and droughts will come 10
those unlucky regions and all the
sympathy OF Dakota and her people
cannot help 1t, she holds out her
arms to the stricken opes, and bids
them come and be welcome, come
and be safe, come and be prosperous
and happy, where there are no
storms, no clouds, no SORROWS and no
fears, where the garden spots OF the
world is to be had at bit an acre,
and where one long, perpetual bliss
fnl springtime and harvestime lasts
all the year.
A Nice Young Man.