Mineral Point tribune. (Mineral Point, Wis.) 1869-1938, 1883-03-15
February in 1.-THE Land of
Promise"

to the last, it has been very fine
month Fine enough Winter wealth
er for any country.
The month was noted for being
the one in which the only blizzard
Of the year occurred The blizzard
began at midnight and lasted for
about twelve hours. For all that,
we tended our stock, and used no
clothes-line or other rope to find the
way to the barns.
In looking over the record for the
past Winter, | say past Winter be-
cause with us the Winter is past and
gone | find the Winter has been a
very cold one all over the United
States Dakota not excepted. But
having compared the record of the
Winter in Aurora county, with that
of the record in the other states, (as
published in the Inter ocean, | find
that we have had the mildest W, ath-
err. Notwithstanding all reports to
the contrary, we can now put up our
rooster and | think he will crow as
loud over the result Of the Winter
as did the Democratic rooster over
the result of the election in New
York, last Fall. Out of the % days
of February "a were fine and 4 were
stormy, which shows | think finer
month than the record of the month
taken in Wisconsin, Iowa, Illinois,
or any other state in the Union. For
if the other states have not had any
snow they have had an abundance
of rain. While the Chicago, Mil
waukee IL St. Paul road has been
blockaded in Iowa and Wisconsin
for eight or ten days at a time, there
has been no blockade on the same
company's road this side of Marion
Junction. To prove this | would
say that man by the name of
Southic, who has claims in this
county and Who had to get on them
the tier part of February, was un.
fortunate enough to be blockaded in
Iowa on the 24th, and not wishing
to lose MS claim, left the train in
Iowa buo ling snow, and walked on
to Plankington distance 100 miles.
Perhaps some will say, that may
serve to prove that thee was no
blockade in Dakota on the cath. bat
it does iot prove that there was none
previously. In reply | would say,
if the road had been blockaded be,
fore the oath it would have been
more likely to be SO on the cath, but
as it did not on previous occasions
the snow did not stop in Dakota but
went into Iowa where the snowbanks
stopped it. Dakota wants to have
Iowa tunneled, or else have the mail
brought by some other route.
The trouble seems to he the other
side of Sanborne. A NJ. Andrews,
the editor Of the Aurora County
Standard, says, 100000 can be
raised in central Dakota to tunnel
that part, and then we will be all
right
Building has been going on ex
tensively this month.
Emigrants have also been pouring
in from Iowa, Illinois and Wiscon-
sin. Some who came from WiScon
sin were surprised to find SO little
snow in Dakota and said if they
wrote back and said that we only
had an inch or two of snow they
would not he believed would say
to those who do not believe that we
have had finer weather here than
you have in Wisconsin, "Come and
see"
On the goth two men south of
Plankinton, Mr.. Andrews and Mr..
Barton broke two acres of land. So
you see the farmers in Dakota, "like
the farmers in the alminacs" get out
their plows, harrows and seed.
Some from Wisconsin and north
ern Illinois having sent to find out
whether it is brushland or prairie, |
would say, in this county it is all
prairie, with some few plum trees
and willows on the Fire Steel creek.
Iwould say, those coming from
Wisconsin can get lumber, feed and
machinery as cheap as in Iowa Co,
but of course if a person has not
enough to I'LL car it will pay better
to buy feed, etc, and bring with
them than to bring car only partly
full
The following is the weather
record for February taken before
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