The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1884-01-03

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A. L. CARTER, GE CARTER
The year 1884 has dawned under les
favorable prospects than did 1888; that is
closer times are foreshadowed and in busi
ness circles considerable speculation exist
as to the future outlook. Flush times il
almost every branch of business enterpris
has so exhilarated men that reaction how
ever slight rather astonishes than intimi
dates.
The unprecedented immigration to Da
kota bringing men of enterprise, mean
and ambition has rapidly peopled thes,
immense prairies with a class that will no
falter at temporary check. The capi
talists who have placed investments in tn,
many thriving towns and have built mon
uments to business thrift that rank witt
older ard eastern cities are none tn,
less sanguine of the ultimate success 0
their plans and are not stayed in thei
contemplated additional outlay. The peo
pie at large are better able to stand hare
times than ever before, however disagree
able and unpleasant they always prove.
The papers are full of accounts of bust
ness failures, many long established firm:
having suspended-some necessarily anc
some fraudulently, but it is only the old
old story repeated; after years of prosper
ity, rush, imitation of prices, speculation
and marvellous growth of town and settle
ment Of country invariably comes a halt
check, a rest. 1t seems as if modelled
after the seasons, first the plant, then the
bloom, the growth, the harvest, and ther
winter, chill forbidding and gloomy, but
for rest that new lite and yigol
may be instilled for coming spring and a
new growth.
Notwithstanding the present dullness
the retrospect should console us at the
temporary lull. The past years of fullness
have developed our territory from an OBJ
scure region into one ofnote and national
observation. Our population has increas-
ed more rapidly than has that of any 9th
er state or territory in Uncle Sans do
min!on; hundreds of miles of railroad have
been built spanning the immense stretch
Of country and hundred of miles more are
being surveyed and located to be construct
ed as soon as the season for work opens Il
net work OF iron bands is being wove for
the commercial traffic to be borne upon,
hat is building into a marvellous promi-
hence; capital is being drawn from the
strong vaults of the hoarder and is seek
ng investments here where the result will
not only be remunerative to it's owners but
the growth and adornment of thriving
cities will be insured 8 t---.--- -
Allvalues have been increased improved
farms, wild prairie, town and city proper
" are up to a healthy standard, and boom
values ale the exception and not the rule.
There is no one who has any property but
finds 1t increased many hundred fold be-
yond it's worth seven years ago. 1t is true
;he corn and wheat crop of last season
was far below what has been realized in
this vicinity heretofore, and this now be-
ng almost exclusively an agricultural
county failure or diminished crop is felt
but this is no more nor less than
what OCCURS in any country at different
seasons and therefore no cause for alarm.
Money, although at present close, ac-
cordlng to eastern quotations and reports
will again be sent hore towar IS the spring
months as fast as needed, so that any one
having anything to buy money with or Sc
cure it's loan can be tided over until the
1ext crop. Only economy and not de-
orivation need be practiced to bring you
through the present pressure. As yet
here is no prospect of any abatement of
he improvements progressing so finely at
he close Of the building season of last fall
md the immigration evidently will be
equally as large as last year. There will
'e more land improved, more prairie
broken in Dakota by new co ners who have
,nly just secured their claims than in any
'ear previous to 1884 So with a reason
Ible and consistent view Of prospects we
hould feel no cause for alarm. No panic
an be expected, that crisis has passed;
'nly few months of business slack and
ct up of rush can reasonably be expect
ID bearing in mind that we are better able
0 stand than in the past.
One thing is surely hoped for this new
lew year just born, that is that kind prov
dence will stay the sad round of casualties
hat marked 1889 as the saddest of all
line. Tornadoes, cyclones and madden
ID elements upon land and water has laid
waste homes, property, and crushed the
ife out of thousands of human beings. 1t
seemed at times as it the last great day
YES being foreshadowed, or that woeful
Tod was sending in the storm cloud chas-
isements for the iniquities ofhis people.
Disease in the horrid garb Of cholera and
'ellow fever reaped a ghastly harvest.
swallowed human beings, vol
,anoes buried victims and buildings be-
leath the molten lava. The accident list
.side from war and pestilence has ell
oiled over one hundred thousand lives as
ost. At the earthquake in Syria ten
thousand people were killed, and that in
he Maylay Archipelago caused the death
# seventy-fve thousand victims. These
acts are truly appalling and how sincere
y thankful ought we to be that this por-
ion have been favored both in the alb
ence of pestilence, contagious diseases
md destructive winds. This belt of coun-
ry thus far having been noticeaby free
rom the tornado terror, and, emphatlcal-
V, it is favored valley.
To all, and particularly those to whom
We have talked for the past seven years,
We extend heartfelt wish that the new
ear may to them be happy one, un-
narred by trouble or depression, one of
prosperity and growth in all the attributes
bat are commendab!e to their Creator and
ZACH other.