Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-12-30
Western Minnesota asd Eastern
Dakota
Towns that are Srringiog Up Like Magic
and Coed Lands Ina, Can be
Bought for Six Dollars
an Acre.
Speeial 10 he Register.


inhabitants, principally Germans and
Scandipavians, intermixsd with a spriuk-
ling of good solid Norwegians, and q very
few Americans. Here We lind solid North
western town, with three banks, fifteen
general stores, three hardware stores, two
Touring mills, one planning mill and two
elevators, and all doing a good business
and making money. They have a fae
brick Court House, much larger than the
Ohio county Court House, and modern
isil but wha: use they haze for Jail |
cannot see, for, il
The Reports are True
there has been but one prisoner IN it since
il wss butt. They have two brick school
houses, primary and academic, aud seven
churches, the Roman Catholic and Luth
er5n having the largest congo atiOnS
Tue county Of Mcisoi - one NJ tie best
farming counties in the State, and is
being fast settled by Getmtls
about one halt al tn" COurtv
settled and being iarmed, the yIiln;r
be tx timber iahs ana sac i.Ti.. TIE
crops here are prinC,ps.ly WHEAT and
harley with some Nttie rye and 'ra- Tne
whsst ayersg= t4i- year Is aboTt - busa-
- " llAC - EG " bafb - - ..at.A RAJ y,
water splendid end Wild grasses rich.
Some very tine cattle is raised mere and finds
q ready market n A!pCeg, ,o.IS, - miles
away. Good land car b. hDlcI. JIDrDEen
for shout 80 an acrr. ami G'n>'.' ring
close marEe, for produce thrn> inns very
cheap There are some ten ots ~ towns 10
The county, the principal one being II Ich-
eson, situated about ten miles moth in
beautiful basin
Sear q Na%ui.iceui Lake.
The town was settled by the famous
Hutcheson family, who u.sd % give con
CeT;S in eastern cities, and although COW
very IiCh they are Oxen booked along the
II * u aiu llaI tOba railroads. But the
Grartetle are now advanced in years and
are consequently not so popular a in days
OF yCTe
And row let US pull ont for Granite
Falls rsssir . on the way Erowntun, Hector,
Epnyille and Birds Island, all small but
aOur.shiHg towns Arriving at G-dn,te
balls We found town 81 about Leo 10
habitaa'~ ard IS n my upiHi"n the coming
city Of ~ DIVISION. /. has one of the
most powerful waterfalls west OF M.nae-
cpOlis, and has brighter prospects than any
town on the l:ue. The river he.e has
fall 81 - f,et and = power 10 run several
mills n large as Pollock in your city.
At present me stream IS utilized 10 run
mills. There is good schools, churches
and stores here and a community OF good
citizens, and after the country Ellis up will
be a booming town. The country around
is q good wheat and stock country. and the
land, which is more rolling than Renville
county, is very much cheaper and not 50
thiCkiy settled IS Mcleod, but
There IL Steady Growth
20 the county that augUrs well for The
future. and this county is smother county
that any person contemplating emlgratIug
should see before going further. Lands here
can be bought for 81 per acre, but are not
so we'll tim bered as Mcleod. Excellent water
is found here at about 20 feet depth and an
abundance OF lakes where water fowls Of
all kinds can &c gotten in season, u3h also
abounds in the streams and lakes, and deer
still haunlS the woods OF the county. And
now we are al Monteyidio, the county seat
OF Chippewa, county OF Minnesota. This
town is one of the prettest towns
along the line of the road, con ANS a rut
l2CO inhabitants, has elevators, > Hour
ing mills, ~ general stores ali doing GOOD
business, schools and churches abound and
the town strikes one as being sO0d p aCr
10 stop. The country around the town Is h
rolling prairie, we'll timbjrel and good
wheat lands. Water il obtained good srH
pure at Il 10 ~ feet, and is just such ter
as you find in many places IN OHIO COgn.y.
ssme price as Oh ppews lands. and 4r", il
anything, little better for stock rlj,,n-.
Now, IN coming up this "a. We have
passed several
Pince- OF Minor Importance.
Appleton, Swift county, beng the largest,
but not OF sufficient importance to need
shy description, but wEeu Te STRIVE AZ
Benson, the county seat OF S."'it We will
give YOUr rssders description 81 the rapid
county. The re~t Sts'l)- - rE'Ouv'lls.
TIE county seat u Big Stone comfy. Min
rCscia. ~ tais town tie less said the bet
lsr, fer your ~ iers will have 10 back up
two miles OF q switch and ride two miles
further on a >lsCe coach before reaching Il,
sud then ulG string q poorly erected
houses stretching way up u the IaSg
House, the 1ply rsdeC ming feature Ot the
town apd the O-iy attractive place, with.
out which the town would certainly die a
natural death. The county Of Big Stone i
rolling prairie ard very ih'niy psOpIci.
The land is good, 5u' the people apHear 10
have bad q desire 20 y over the lake to
Dakota. Far up. near G,SCJville. an Irish
settlement on the MsuitO' there is fair
spyinklirS of people, but taking il - 4
whole Big Stone COUNTY don't appear 10
strike the settler, but why, | cannot see.
The lands are cheap, the water good, and
wheat can be produced averaging full up to
the famous county OF Lsc-s. Parle, which
sppesrs to have taken the cake this season.
And low
All Aboard for Dakota.
Passing over the border We strike Bg
Stone City, growing town Of 100 iuhal-
itanls situated at the foot of Big Stone
Lake. beautiful sheet of water about ST.
miles long and averaging about two miles
vide. Miilbank, the county seat of Grant
county, is The next place of tmportan e.
al. -. a..
the II. < d. Railroad. This plaCsiS bUSy,
sctiye town Of 1905 inhabitants SIR.
rounded by an immense scoops OF prdris
lsnd, all good wheat land and can ~ sought
for from ~ so 10 $40 an acre and there are
plenty of good farms of quarter sscLioas OF
government land yet unsettled near the
town, and when the government opens up
the Sitseltou, agency lands there will be an
immense rush to Grant county and Mill.
bank will then vie with Browns Valley for
the trade of the new corners, with the odds
in favor of Browns Valley. ras Levt
place is Webster, Day county, DLSotS, q
new and thriving town of 500 Inhabitants
situsted near Fort Sisselson and amidst the
best lands, where il your readers desire to
locate on government land
They Might Find &c Profitable
to stop OIL and look it over while the bal.
ance OF the parties go 10 Aberdeen, the nd
Vi Toe NuSAc TUG AtiAS Will SSS ODE1eF
life in all its besuty. Here il was that
Jim Msudel and Lou Frauzheim got
mashed on the country, and eat the bald
headed butter and slept in hay NOV, and
done several other wonderful acts; but
what most broke Lon up was - cents for
spoonful Of beer, when he had bsea used to
abucketfR! for cents. But then Jim
Msudei got it back on the bsrkeeper when
he asked him to throw in little salt
But now for the town. When the boys
we're bers The town had Just been planted,
and wss Quoted at par or. excuse me, 100
5. juhsh:tss.s. Nov. she ms $3.50 ssi still