The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1883-11-16
Roman on Dakota.

Col. Pat. Donan wh;'u IN Pli'a.
aeipllia WAS caught BY :. reporter Of
the Press and La1 .Ae following to
say about DAB "On every CON
sideration hight, expediency and
need. e have by far the largest
and rsost important territory in all
Union. Laid down upon a map
of the Unit,d States. Dakota would
cover cye,y foot of land ana water
from the 1t. Lawrence and st. Johns
to the Srsauehanna and the Schuyl-
kill. With her 10000 square miles
Of are, she is as large as all New
York, New Jersey aud half of Penn
sylvania, with Deiawarc's three little
peach orchards and two toy senators
thrown IN. She is 10000 square
mics greater than all Great Britain,
with the Isle OF. Man and Mrs. Lang
try's Jersey to boot. She is nearly
as large rs Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indi-
anna and Illinois all put together,
and sprced out i'll proper shape,
would almost the whole vast
region bounded by the great lakes
sonth, the Mississippi on the west and
the Alleghanies OH the east. And
all this mighty domain is rich in ag-
ricu!tural, pastoral aud mineral re-
som.;es. The bonanza wheat fields
of : ,aketa arc the wonder and adini-
ia ION of the world. The greatest
e i'd mine on the globe is in her bor-
ters, and she has 5000 square miles,
whose every crag and rugged peak is
ribbed with gold and silver, copper,
IRON, lead, tin, zinc and coal. Her
horixon-feieed plains which fed mill
ions OH m; lions Of buffalo, will pas
tnre a natl. l's flocks and herds. Her
population j 3 grown from i4,lso in
1870 to 1885, % III 1880, and 100000
in 1888, and il - daily and hourly IN.
creasing at sucL , rate as was never
known before in, y region Of earth.
All the tales OF en- ,antment become
commonplace best the everyday
realities Of Dakota's nrogress. Last
May = town was laid . t in the wild
prairie grass on Devil Lake. One
log-cabin and 4 sod sta lc all
the buiidingsit contained tx month.
ago. To-day il is a busy tile city
with Fifty or sixty busine. houses
tive or six .hotcln, two fit Wishing
newspa, ors, car shops, srca boats
and all the ;,rce>suslcs of met. poll
tan life. A tally newspaper ! .tti
has just been 8. ,ped in, aud Gle. I'll
lights for the street and publ" bu, !
ings is projected. This is not All e.
ceptional ease. Fargo. tie principa
city in the territory, has ',een almos
wholly built within the >ast tou
years, and hosts of yonr peot.' VIII
have visltedsus- this: summer VIII. ad
{ nit that, IN many resi- Gets, it is =
. most as metropolitan and c,,smopoli
! tan a. Philadelphia. Nc have il
: Dakota 3,onO niles of railroad in o.
Q Grafton, and hundreds Of miles in pro
] cess of construction. We have a
. leastIo9 thriving cities AMI towns
! scattered broadcast over the pasturin:
places o. Yesterdays buffalo and ante
. lopc. We have over $50 daily ant
weekly newspapers which compar,
e favoraiily with ANY in the .Iicr re-
d gions. We have as handsome church
, en- and schools AS can be found in an,
. st yonr smaller cities, and We have
" panal ton unsurpassed on earth i,
e intelligence, energy, enterprise. publ,
G spirits aud hospitality. it is but seve,
q Years and three no.. " since Cus,e
. and his battalion WERE .,assacrcd b.
the Sioux just over our . storm bor
! der, and only three years AZ savage
war parties rai.led over ,nuc.. tcrr,
tory and killed settlers and pros. oct
!. ors between Missouri river and til,
Black lille. Yet, to-day, We numbt,
= over a third Of n million souls, and i
!. the present grand rush forward * M
|. checked it is but Il few moons uH;i
4 we shall have our fall million. W.
7 have the vastest territory in all thu,
: ncw-world republic, the richest ant
9 most varied III its resources, the mos
populous, productive and prosperous
nov, and fullest III glorious promise
! for the future. If this doesn't cntiti,
US to be put. poll isally and religiously
\ on All equality 18th Carolina an,
Florida negroes and trnck-patches, !
] can't imagine wh:.. would"