The Lambertville record. [volume] (Lambertville, N.J.) 1872-1968, 1883-05-30

heat of our eastern summer days is felt
here, for the reason that there is ever a
deliciously cool and welcome breeze the
nights are uniformly cool and pleasant.
l arrived at Hope on the ed day Of
August 1882, and have not experience a
/ warm or uncomfortable night from my
arrival to the present time. Indeed, it
is much more delightful here during the
! summer and fall months than at our sea
side resorts, where, frequently, storms
and land breezes prevail, and if those of
your readers who spend a portion of the
summer at the sea shore and in the noun
tains to escape the heat of an eastern sum-
mer, could experience the delights of
Dakota summer, they would one and all
exclaim II have found it Y
The atmosphere is clear, dry and pure,
and malarial and contagious diseases are
unknown. 1t has tonic property which
braces and develops the energies and
fits man for moral and physical exer-
ton.
Our winters are indeed cold, the Their
mometcr often indicating 400 below zero.
This statement, however, il unqualified,
would give you wrong impression, for
the atmosphere being so dry, it does not
seem any colder here when such low
degree Of temperature prevails, than it
does in New Jersey when the thermometer
indicates 100 below zero; and the fact
that many of our ladies rode thirty miles
in a sleigh over the prairies last winter
when it was 40o below zero, without any
discomfort, will evidence that our winters
are not as coil as at first sight would APP
pear.
You can hardly conceive the amazing
rapidity with which the territory is being
peopled. This year will undoubtedly
add 800, 900 souls to our population, and
this vast influx is not as many suppose,
constituted wholly or indeed to large
| extent, of foreign emigrants, but the
greater portion comes from our sister
states and territories. One of the first
! things that claims the attention of new
conner is the class of people he meets in
the territory and their surroundings.
Naturally he looks for foreign emigrants
and the rougher element of society but
he finds on all sides people possessed of
! the culture and refinement to which he is
accustomed in the East. Most of our
settlers come here with adequate means
to build necessary buildings and properly
farm these fertile lands. Towns and
cities arc springing up ON all sides and
nowhere can be seen more evidence of
thrift, energy and prosperity than appear
here. Our larger towns have hotels and
business palaces, equal generally to those
OF our eastern cities and are almost gener-
ally lighted by electricity and supplied
with telephone communication. 1t is
true that our prairies are yet destitute of
timber, except along the river bottoms,
owing to the ravages of prairie fires dur
ing the time that these rich and fertile
lands knew no dominion except that of
the red man. But this is all changing and
few years hence groves of timber will
spring up OH all sides.
In the vicinity of Hope the prairies are
uudulating aud rolling in character and
are naturally drained of surplus water.
Many beautiful lakes abound, which dur
ing the summer and fall months are
covered by wild fowl of all kinds, proving
source of delight to the sportsman.
Our immediate country is devoid of
stone except in the bottoms of what are
known here, as Coolies" being really
water courses, where the only stone we
have is to be found but in such bottoms
stone abounds plentifully, furnishing all
that is necessary for foundations of build
ings. For building purposes bricks are
always to be had, being manufactured in
several parts of the territory. Nature
seems to have specially provided our
praries for man s sway, as the stone
which abounds is not in the settlers way,
rendering his toll in cultivating the soil
more arduous, but is placed in the
Coole bottoms which, although poor land
for cultivating, furnishes plcntifully rich,
sweet hay. The streams which meander
through these Coolies are pure and limpid
in character. In some parts of the terri
tory the drinking water is impregnated
with alkali as stated in your clipping en-
closed but in such localities artesian
wells are sunk until pure water is OBJ
tanned. At Hope and vicinity we have
delicious pure, clear and cold water and
have only to dig into the earth a few feet
for 1t.
AS to the statement that most of the
settlers of Dakota are those who are too
poor to get away, it is simply untrue.
The fact is that a really poor man is al
most unknown here-eyen those who may
come with little money soon SO better
their circumstances that they could hard
ly be induced to return East We have
here nearly every comfort and convenience
obtainable in the East. AS to the state
Hhohb oohooih ihE tHo PioN"'ohSo VI hioo-
quitos, have only to say that since my
arrival in Dakota to the present time |
have not seen mosquito. 1t istrue that
there are some mosquitoes here during
July, but they leave us by August and
when our soil gets fully under cultivation
| think they will DO unknown.
fear this letter will appear rambling
and disconnected, but if at any time you
} desire specific information concerning
, Dakota it will afford me pleasure to serve
you to the extent of my ability.
, Very truly yours,
w. p. MILLER.
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t flrmed by clergymen, lawyers, public