Turner County herald. (Hurley, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1883-10-11

Sioux Falls Leader: No proposition
is more certain than that the settle
ment of country increases the hui
mitlity of the climate. The causes there
for may be safely left to the considera-
tion Of specialists, but as to the fact,
particularly with reference to Dakota,
there can not be the slightest donbt.
The obsolete maxim, sit never rains in
to be laughed at, but the early settlers
of the territory know how true it was
that there was cause for complaint on
account of the infrequency of rain. The
early settlers who have remained
throughout the vicissitudes of the ter
ritory have had ample opportunity to
observe the continued increase in the
annual rainfall, until now no one COM
plains of drought throughout the vast
confines of the new state. a trip
through the older counties of south
eastern Dakota at this season of the
year is particularly well adapted to the
true appreciation of the wonderful eli
matic changes that are making of this
section of country the paridise of
America Crops of every character in
dieate the claims of the soil to pre-emi-
nenee In the northwest Beautiful
groves dot the landscape, and waving
fields OF hammered corn everywhere
greet the eye. 1t is being recognized on
all hands that south Dakota has no
superior as a c0rn-gr0wing country.
Exhibits at the various agricultural
fairs this season conclusiveIy demon
strate this point. A farmer from the
great corn-belt OF Illinois, who is now
living in Yankton county, states that
for the past three years his corn crops
have been vastly superior to those he
had previously raised in Illinois. Tes-
timony of this kind is overwhelming.
And so with frnits-apples, grapes.
plums, etc.,-the excellence of this
country is being made with every year
more and more manifest. Clear-headed
and unbiased judges are pronounced in
their opinion that no section of the en-
tire country is the agricultural superior
of south Dakota. 1t must be borne in
mind that heretofore the wonderful
growth in population of this section of
country has been practically unaided by
the arts of advertising, and yet as asin-
gle illustration it may be cited that
from March Goth to April Both of the
present year the Chicago and North
western railroad alone brought into
south Dakota eighty thousand people!
Hitherto the great railroad companies
have made no effort worthy of special
mention to direct the attention of the
east to this portion of the northwest.
This year the Milwaukee and North
western roads are spending twenty dol
lars to where they spent one before, for
the purpose of giving to south Dakota
something like the measure of adver-
tising which she deserves. The effect
Of this enterprise on the part of the
railroads can not be JVereStimated. and
next year is certain to witness an influx
of settlement unparalleled by the seem
ingly marvellous immigration which
has characterized this and former years.
South Dakota is emphatically home
country, a country for the establish
ment of the farm and the fireside. Peo-
pie who have been astonished hereto
fore at the growth of the country and
who have predicted that SO startling
an increase Of population could not long
continue, will have still greater reason
to feel big with amazement over that
which, whether termed an anomaly or
not, will continue to he the most re-
markable fact in the worlds history of
popular migration.