The Democratic press. [volume] (Ravenna, O. [Ohio]) 1868-1901, 1882-12-28
Dakota Letter.
THE NEW NORTHWE EST

JAMESTOWN, STUTZMAN Co., DIT.
December 18th, 1882.
The great Northwest is booming
booming as meyer land doomed before.
It's praises are sounded from continent
to continent, and stories of its great
resources and advantages are told in
every tongue. Murmurings of this
great country's Importance reach the
ears of the hard handed, industrious
Swiss, and from the summit of lofty
Alpine peaks he locks away toward
the land of promise, as if it were pos
sible for him to behold it from his lofty
station bright, enhancing tales of this
Elysium wing their way to the ice
bound shores of n Norway and Sweden,
and fill the hearts of the diligent peas
ants with hope echoes of this countrys
inestimable worth bound and rebound
among all Brittain's sterile crags, en-
trancing the sturdy yeomen with their
wonderful sweetness peans of praise
swelling from the hearts of the favored
dwellers in the land of peace and plen-
ty are waited across the Atlantic's
turbid bosom, and piercing the mist
environed shores of Hibernia, cheer
the sad hearts of the sons of depression.
Everywhere, to the most remote parts
, of the globe. glowing testimonials of
this great garden spot of the world
find their way. The broad, fertile
acres of the Northwest are no longer
withheld from the tiller; no longer the
red man treads the boundless prairies
claiming them as his own, jealously
!. guarding the treasurs lying within
their bosom, keeping them intact from
the touch of the white man. The red
man has yielded up his possession, the
restless tide of humanity is flowing
through the great portals OF the North
west, and the prairies, in obedience tC
= the touch of the husbandman, are
!, yielding up the boundless riches thai
have SO long been locked in theil
. depths, and like lava from VOLCANOES
- angry mouth, their golden riches are
' pouring into the vast graneries of The
universe. Months have hardly length
ened into years since this country anc
!. its resources were so deeply buried il
oblivion and as imperfectly known tt
the world as that region of the darf
Continent that gives birth to the fick
. lie Nile Is to the average geographer o
were, where now from the hearth
. stones of thousands of happy homes
the blue smoke curIs heavehWard, thu
:. untamed child of nature built his wig
!: wan and built his glowing campfire
The broad prairies which We're th'
y hunting grounds of the wild sports
man are now dotted with the houses
of ihe industrious farmer; cities havt
u sprung up of no little Importance
cities large and active, cities who's
y growth has been SO rapid as to surpris
the whole world, cities whose attrac
Il tions, enterprise and push are heralde
. throughout the globe cities that ar
J. AS much an object of wonderment a
u was the capital of the Aztecs in tn
~ fifteenth century. And still the trea
~ of emigration is heard resoundin
u throughout the length and breadth I
D. this vast country land the steady traml
ie tramp of home seekers will awake tt
81 echoes of this land of abundance ant
~ the thousands and thousands eff uncu
ne tivated acres shall, in response to Il
hand oi the farmer, bud and blosso
no into golden beauty.
+re J. G.. w.