The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1883-09-22
THE NEW NORTH WEST.
EXPLORATIONS ALONG OUR NORTHERN Bol

EXPLORATIONS ALONG OUR NORTHERN BOIL
DER-NoT ALTOGETHER 'HowLING
wILDERNEss'- ABOUT The
COUNTRY, ITS PEoPLE, GROWTH, AND
PROSPECTS.
Special Correspondence.
BI-MAkCK, D. T. Sept. IA, 1888.
The eyes of the world have of late been
fixed upon Dakota as one of the chief
reliances of millions upon millions of
that surplus population who are con-
SANITY chasing after the star of empire.
The extreme fertility of soil; the infini-
tude of lakes, rivers, and streams that
afford an abundance of the clearest and
purest water-water that even exceeds in
all its qualities that for which Mime.
sofa has become renowned; belts of tim
Der, comprising hickory, oak, walnut,
Eastwood, maple, pine and cedar, all
seeming to be exactly adjusted geograph-
ically to the wants and necessities of the
settlers of the boundless prairie, there
would seem to be everything to induce
the immigrant hither to make this his
everlasting abiding place-and he is
coming. He is coming by train and by
prairie schooner, and by any and every
conceivable means of transportation that
pioneer ingenuity can devise. Ee is
coming in such numbers that he adds
$4,000 to her population every twelve
month, and from the handful of people
who were here when your correspondent
first visited the Territory in 1878, she
can now boast of a population greater
by far than either Colorado, Delaware,
Florida, Nevada, Oregon, Rhode Island,
Vermont or New Hampshire. That is
the way Western State grows. This
population is composed of the ambitious
portion of those who have met discour-
agement in agricultural pursuits where
there was no agriculture to pursue, as
in sterile New England, whose horny.
banded yeomanry make up portion of
the best stock of this new country. Aud
New York and Pennyslvania have for.
warded their thousands who have been
accustomed for generation to the yiois
situdes of farming upon less fertile
soil. Wheat-growing Canada pours her
tens of thousands upon us, armed with
the experiences and armored with the
aeclimation that welcomes the coolest OF
the northern billiards.
What the population of Dakota will be
at the time of the next census, no human
being can surmise, because there is no
basis for calculation. The towns that
spring up as if by me- gic on every hand,
become populous cities ere one can make
up his mind whether it were prudent to
invest in the chances for its futsre.
Everywhere the newspaper and the bank
and the church, and the schoolhouse, and
the railroad, and the telegraph, and all
the indications of American civilization
are being instituted, and the vast region
comprising what is known as Southern
Dakota presents every indication Of an
old settled State. Ths exhibits of the
grain, vegetable, aud other products of
Dakota made by the Northern Pacific
Railroad from year to year at the Chicago
Exposition, form one of the most extra.
ordinary attractions for the public eye,
for there are stalks of corn thirty feet in
height; wheat whose kern, Is are a mar
vel of plumpness and productiveness;
squashes that kick the beam at $50 lbf =.
each; potatoes, such as no one ever saw
either as to size or quality, which are
yielding thousand bushels TO the acre,
and so on without end as to the miracul.
Gus power of this new AID virgin soil.
The Territory may be said to be pIacti-
eally exempt from every species of ma
larious influence, and the percentage Of