The Carbon advocate. [volume] (Lehighton, Pa.) 1872-1924, 1883-10-06
THE NEW NORTH WEST.
B1sMARoK, D. T. Sept. %, 1888.

.ige yesterday becomes a metropolis to-
lay by means of the boom. or course
here is vast amount of prodigious ly-
ing in this booming business, but what
other mission has the real estate specula-
tor? As one travels westward he encoun-
Lers more and more OF these intelligent,
liars, whose lahore in behalf
of this. that aud the other rising town
induce its speedy settlement and at once
secure its prosperity. 1t matters little
as to the particular advantages place
may possess, either in the ma ter of To-
cation, OF quality ofsoil, or mill facilities,
or anything else, SO long as It has good
boomer-a man with horn and ca
pacity for blowing it. He is the first
stage of the growth of the town, and the
second and the last. He lies elegantly
about the attractions of the place, which
after all consist chiefly in the induce
ments held out for speculation.
This is the sort of thing that has been
done for many of these widely advertised
new towns in this New West, Of which
perhaps, Bismarck is an example. But
here, and elsewhere. il has been more or
less successful, and has attracted people
and capital and caused rapid growth and
development Real estate speculation is
the chief industry. Town plots are
marked off on some barren spot and in
few weeks lots are sold at fabulous prices
by means of the booming process. As
IN auxiliary, a few hundred dollars are
Invested in type and presses and news
paper is started for circulation chiefly
through the Eastern States. 1t is one Of
the wonders of the frontier how so many
small towns support a newspnper--some
daily; all weekly. The Eastern town
or city with population of $4,000 finds
hard work to support daily, but the
Western town of 1,5O0 inhabitants that
doesn't have its daily is poor indeed.
Generally the editor relies to great ex-
tent upon some outside source-an Office
or fat take of some kind-for his share
of ierked buffalo; but at any rate the
newspaper is sustained at all hazards.
| The absolute success that ever follows
the skilful booming of II town is shown
by the fabulous prices that town lots
bring in some of these growing villages.
With agricultural land only ten or twen-
" miles distant easily obtainable for So
per acre, here we find it readily sold at
from $4,000 to S25, 900 per acre, and
with no great promise of metropolitan
future at that Corner lots in Winnepeg
or jamestown, or Fargo or Bismarck, re
simply fortune in themselves, because
AS business marts these towns have re-
ceived the full benefit of years of the best
of booming, and have attracted that class
of settlers whose energy and enterprise
and pluck constitute perpetual boom.
Here is Territory that covers l5l ,00(
square miles, or more than two.fiitbs
greater in area than Great Britain, FIVE
sixths of which is capable of profitable
occupation and at least four-tilths sus
cep;ible of the highest state of arrblt
cultivation, The mountains are few in
Decd and there are neither absolute
wastes, impenetrable swamps or bottom
less slougbs. such as are found in nd
Joining States and Territories. 1t is {
Territory, too, whose people are harmon
ious in the single aim Of developing th'
resources Of the country and advancing
it as RAPIDLY as possible to that condition
OF civilized life which has made its siste
States blossom as the rose. With
lresher and newer history than that o
any Territory that has eyer asked admis
= sion to the Union, it has already possess
ed itself of railroads that penetrated
wherever the behests of commerce insur
ed them, while in the number and quail
ty of its schools, in the beauty and cos,
public buildings, it stands inferior onl
to the old.settled and pretentious State
e of the East. The politicians of this ne'
t country are loudly knocking at the door
I. OF Congress for admission to Statehood
e and find the majority of the peopl
i agree with them, if they care anythin
Q about the matter at all, which many &
D not. Those who realize that the cLane
i would entail additional expense will OF
Z corresponding advantages do not join
the application. The others have
view some imaginary advantage to ari'
y from admission as State except IL
: ambitious politicians. These latt'
q know what they are after, viz, the loav'
II and fishes.
II The recent decision of the distri
e court pronouncing invalid the act crea
y ing a commission for the establisbmt
IT of tha capital ard the erection of Publ
ls buildings therein, has stirred BismarC
lie to i,s foundation, for it is victory II
As the Yankton folks that was hardly look'
iOIs DlSiuhICh hhu hBiSOu W tASSN Nv
I, own expense the public buildings nece
III sary to transact the Territorial bushes
CT provided that by II vote Of the people Il
is capital should De peTmanantly locat
here. The result of tho vote was ov,
N. whelmingly in favor of Bismarck. al
lie she has already entered upon the wo
Es of carrying out her part of the contra
be All at once, However the Yankton peop
OF who have all along been tasting I
be sweets of capital life, have discover
r. that the enactment of the law creati
OF the capital C, mmission was ucccmpRni
ed by vast deal OF Legislative crookedne
tv and upon which The court has pronouI
AN ed its decision adversely to the claims
Az Bismarck. OF course the end. Of Il
ly controversy is not YET Meantime. 10
do eyer, the Bismarck folks, having let
OH contracts for the different classes Of wo
ey and material for the new buildings, I
M pushing ahead as if nothing had happ'
st. ed, and in accordance with their ongiI