The Press., 1883-04-05
LETTER FROM MINNESOTA.

| ClearWater, M1nn., March 2S, 1853. To give your readers some idea of the emigration into Dakota this season I will quote few items from the latest issues of the Sleepy Eye Herald. Here is an item in the issue for March 10th:
 'At least eight hundred passengers pass ed this station going west on Thursday l Two trains were filled to their utmost ca pacity, many ladies being obliged to stand in the aisle"
 From the issue for March 17th: ''The night passenger train going west has been from two to five hours late nearly every night, owing to heavy loads. Every train has six or seven coaches and baggage and express cars.
 From the issue of March 24th, which I have just received, are these items: ''Winona Republican, March 18th One 1 thousand cars loaded with emigrants, stock and emigrants' moyables, were moving west toward Central Dakota on the Winona and St. Peter railroad this morning." "One hundred and twenty-fv car loads of stock and emigrants' movables passed this station every day during the past week, all bound for Dakota and western Minnesota. This number is all the road can handle with the present facilities. Flight new engines have been placed on the Winona and St. Peter road recently, l for use during the present busy season The engines belong to the Omaha line, and are only loaned to this line. They are strong and powerfully built, and are able to haul larger train than any of the other engines" ..y
 From accounts given it appears that it is an intelligent and enterprising class, most 1 ly Americans, from the older states who are in this stream of human life which is flow ing into Dakota. Dakota is sure to be a great state, or rather it is sure to become two great states, and it will not be long before it either. The northern as well as the southern part of the territory is rapidly filling up.
 Commenting on the items quoted above, 1 the editor of the Herald says
 ''Now when the emigrant arrives in Da- kotah the question is, where is he to get shell ter and supplies, seed, grain, lumber, and feed for his stock There are orders with dealers at Winona for at least thousand car loads of lumber which cannot be sent until the emigrant rush is over. It is pretty safe to believe that freights will be very slow this spring, for the emigrants have only com menced to move vest"
 ''The natural result of this condition of af fairs will be that the settler on arriving at his destination will be dumped on his tree claim with not tree within two hundred miles of him, without lumber for his shanty and without feed for his horses It would not be so bad if the time was May or June; but with such days as they experienced in the earlier part of this week the introduction to Dakota life must have made them little homesick."
 The local papers contain many sad incl dents of serious accidents to emigrants in this rush, but we have no room for them here. Women and children should not be taken, as g general rule, into a new, fron- tier country too early in the spring, or too late in the fall.
 Our spring comes on slowly, There is still much snow on the ground, We have had no rains yet, and every indication is l that it will be snow again before rain, For the present seeding is out of the calcula- tion,
 The cattle market has not been brisk. and but very few head have been sold. So long as beef can be sent in from the far west, frozen, the cattle here will not be in great demand. But the market is good. high prices are expected to rule. :. l o. P. CHAap1IN.