Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-02-11
ID a I1H
PAST IyTELLIGENCER'
.u. ceowrg OF DAKOTA.

vuE CRowTa OF DAKOTA
W. fsa, a deem interest in Dakota, Tor
obvious reasons. 1t is in the same ia'i-
tpds as our own Territory, and the
Northern Pacific and other roads lead
ING this way pass through it. The con
ditious of life ami population are very
much the sams az in our own ier
ritory, particularly in Eastern =" ASA
inoton. Above all. though, We see IA
the extraordinary Development auo
growth of that great Territory pre-
monition of what We will see here GUY
ing the next five years-
Soms regent statements indicating
What ia doing there have attracted our
s,,sntion. From the General Land
Ofies i. is learned that the whole num-
Der of original homesteads taken in
Dakota from January, 1861, the time OF
the organization Of the Territory, I"
June 30, 1880, inclusive, was D'si2. Inc
population at the date last mentioned
was 49,. 900, iadic,ting a proportion OF
AZ persops to each homestead entry
From july 1, 1880, to December 81, looz
tbe whole number Of original homestead
entries in Dakota was 81 ,355, indicating
Mt the rate of one homestead to ~ per
sons. An increase OF population OF l6i,'
O4s. OF whom 0i,OO0 are in Southern
Dakota, and 57.0as in Northern Dakota
AT the time of the census there wef'
10000 in Southern Dakota and oo'W
in Northern Dakota, so on January
1893 there we're 10000 people IN tn
proposed State of Dakota and 3J'o9' II
the proposed Territory Of North Dako'h
The popul alton OF the whole lerfitofN
was therefore 23l,olo.
Another statement hardly less strik
inc. and certainly more Conclusive
comes from the POstoffice Department
in which il is shown that the receipts II
Dakota alone for the quarter ending
septembsr 80. 1880, were S32,32l, an'
for the quarter ending September 81
1882. they were $685., over twice ~
LARGE as they were Tor the jane qu1fte'
OF 1890. There are now at least hV'
States in the Union which yield
smaller revenue so far IA postoiiioe TIE
ca;,..are concerned than ID dakota. These
are Delaware, Florida, Nevada, Oregon
and West Virginia.
And here is another showing IN tbs
line of our own business. In the mrs
ten years of its Territorial existence
two papers only were established With
the limits. This WAS the period iron
1861 to 1871. In 1871 four more paper
we're established; in 1872, one paper; II
1873, one; in 1874, one: IN 1919, none
in 1876, two; and in 1877, two. The
'boom," as it is po 5ularly called there
began in 1878, when seven new papers
spranp inio existence, followed b,
eleven in 1879 and nine in 1880. In 1881
the greatest advance up to that time
came, and with it twenty seven new
papers, which number, great AZ 1t was
was dwarfed into insigni6cance by the
seventy five new papers of 1882. In the
Territory are now nineteen dailies ano
and l42 weeklies, besides five journal'
devoted to religion, temperance and az
riculturs, not included in the figure
preceding. In the matter OF news
papers Dakota takes the lead OF all thu
Territories and of at least six States.
And yet Dakota is kept Territor,
despite the earnest protests of her PEG
pie, for the reason alleged by some op
ponents that she has neither population
wealth nor business sufficient to justify
her in assuming the responsibilities ant
expenses of State government. Blu
these people are either blinded by pre-
judice or know what they say is untrue