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Madison, Dakota,

Is the county seat of Lake county, and is
situated on the line of the southern Mime
sofa division of the Chicago, Milwaukee 81 st.
Paul railway. Lake county embraces sixteen
townships, and Madison is located very near
the geographical center of the comfy. Nearly
every branch of business is represented.
There are three banks, six general stores, two
hardware stores, two drug stores, two furni-
ture stores, one clothing store, one book and
stationery store, one exclusive grocery store,
one boot and shoe store, one jeWelry store,
two harness shops, several blocks with shops,
barber shops, millinery stores, restaurants,
meat markets, ETC.; two livery stables, two
hotels, two newspaper offices, two lum Der
yards, two grain warehouses, one coal yard,
five machinery yards.
Among the most prominent institutions in
town is the Lake county steam mill. Madi-
son has four churches, Presbyterian, Catho-
lie, Baptist and Methodist. The public
school building was constructed at cost of
81, 800. The Territorial normal school,
which was located in Madison by the terri
torial Legislature in 1881, is in operation in
the upper rooms o. the public school build
ing. The normal school building when
completed, will probably cost not less than
$50, 600.
The Masonic and Odd Fellows lodges are
represented in Madison, besides Rebekah
lodge and an Eastern Star chapter; also
Good Templar's lodge. The town is blessed
with the very best society, aud anything like
Old frontier times has long since departed
from this community.
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mat Win &ro,c on. Sod.

Dakota sod will produce good corn the
first year it is broken. If the corn is plant
ed with common hand sod planter between
the burrows, and planted in season, it is as
profitable a crop to raise as corn on old
ground, as it saves labor In cultiyating.
Potatoes make an excellent growth on sod
with no cultivation, blowing them in by
dropping them in every third furrow near the
edge. From 100 to l75 bushels per acre
have been raised, planted in this way.
Flax also Is good crop, where the object
is to subdue the sod as much
as possible in one season. II a
puyerizer is used and the ground is
thoroughly prepared, fax viii yield from ten
b fifteen bushels per acre, but great care
should be used in the selection of seed, as
there is apt to be a great variety OF weed seed
among the flax, that 1t Is almost impossible
10 remove. Flax may be sown as late as the
Goth OF June, but earlier viii be better on
account of dry weather.
Al kinds of root crops will do well on sod
If the pulvcrizcr is used.
Turuips aud rutlbagas especially do well,
even without puverlziug. Turnips should be
sowu as late as July, and will produce a
good crop. For stock, the maugel-wurzcl is
very profitable root crop, aud can be raised
R> easily as rutabagas and is an enormous
yicld,r.
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Fr,tit CuLt,t1.e In Dakotn.

Cnder the above caption correspondent
writes the Parker Era as follows:
Allow me through your columns to say to
hose who do not believe Dakota is or will be
G fruit growing country, that they would be
surprised to visit the Alderman nursery,
two miles south Of Hurley, and see quarter
section of land covered h fruit trees, vines
and shrubbery, all grow n, and much of it
laden with fruit. l would not attempt to
tell how many bushels Of fruit of different
kinds will be harvested, but / counted twen-
ty-two apples on one limb, and many others
were apparently as full. 1t would surprise
any person not acquainted with the facts to
visit the place. The proprietors, who have
made fruit culture in this country a special
study, will gladly show you over. the orchard
and nursery, point out and name this shrub
and that tree or vine, telling you their ad-
vautages or faiings, what is most adapted to
this climate and soil, and why it is so, and
why some DO not do so well. The instruc-
tons and sights are well worth any persons
time and expense who cares to raise fruit
l, for one, am so much interested that |
wish every person who has tract of land
would go and see for themselves. | am sat
isfed it would awaken in them an interest
IN fruit culture.
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Ishsos, Dakota,

Is situated due west of St. Paul about 500
miles, being thirty-ive miles south of Aber-
deem and almost in the geographical centre
of the now famous countysof Sphinx.
The site upon which the city of Ashton
stands, was plated by c. II. Prior, general
superintendent of the Chicago, Milwaukee x
st. Paul Railway company, early in the year
1851.
Through immigrant trains from Atlanta.
H., and other eastern towns, came in the
spring of 1852, each train that arrived repre-
sentiug from twenty to sixty families who
were to find homes at OF near Ashton. These
people were gathered, in the main, from the
foremost families in their respective loc1f-
ties, thus giving Ashton and vicinity class
OF citizens, mostly Americans, Is refined
and intelligent as can be found in any east
ern community.
The wear 1888 was 8 prosperous one for
Ashton. During the year over 500, 600 was
paid to The Chicago, Milwaukee Il 81. Paul
Railway company Cor freight alone. Fifteen
hundred tons of soft coal and 500 tons of
hard cOal were sold and some $50 cars of en-
igraut muvables unloaded. In 1883 Pratt Il
Co. : steam elevator handled 90, 600, and the
mill Of c. F. Spencer x Co. consumed s
large additional amount. July 4, 1883, the
artesisn well began its fiow at the rate Of 100
barrels an hour.
Ashton's reputation as being substantial
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SPHINX Co,sntu. Dakota.

When we have said that Sphinx county lies
in the midst of the James river valley; that
it is divided by that river in a generally
north and south direction into two not very
unequal portions; that four important and
several small branches Oh creeks connect the
main river within its boundaries, watering
in their winding courses, a very large extent
of country; that the more important Of these
ere known as Turtle, Snake and Timber
creeks and Dry run; that the county con-
tains forty-two townships, seven from north
to south and six from east to west; that its
area is, therefore, 1,512 square miles; that
this is equivalent to 67, 780 acres-n round
numbers, million acres Of land, almost the
whole of it highly fertile and susceptible of
easy cultivation; when we have said that the
surface OF the country is partly level prairie
and partly of a gently undulatng character;
that bluffs Of moderate height and narrow
strips of bottom land are characteristic Of the
streams, as well as frequent fringes and oc-
casional groves of forest trees; that the wa
tiers abound in several varieties OF fish, in
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What is the linton Fore

The building of q metropolis such as is
St. Paul with its broad avenues. its splendid
buildings, its refined society, its educational,
rural and art institutions, and its thousand
other attractions, is due chiefly to the liber-
atty and culture of the business men from
whom is obtained the money to carry to
completion all material improvements. 1t
is true that many professional
men give literally % aid great
works, but it viii be found, if traced back
sufficiently, that this uioney was earned By
them, directly or indirectly, from the business
men. If we think Of tie wares Of the ner-
chants, and also Of the productive and com
mercial agencies employed to place them at
the disposal of the people, we certainly viii
grant that the shops Of . grea; city are among
the most suggestive subjects for rejection
This compendium is nos intended as GEN
eral directory, but 81 available space is oc-
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The "Ji,m River Vauey" of Dakota,

The "Jism River Valtey" of Dakota,
Nine-tenths of which is fertile prairie, is, be-
yond all doubt, the best wheat growing coun-
try on the globe. The soil is rich, dark,
vegetable loan, containing lime, potash,
soda, magnesia, sulphur, and phosphorus,
with from ten to fifteen per cent. of finely
pulverized organic matter. The soil is I'M
derlaid by marty clay, and is from two to
three feet deep. The subsoil contains from
twenty to forty per cent of phosphate of
lime, and is great reserve fund from which
crops can draw substance whenever the soil
has been exhausted. The whole valley is
well watered by nature; there being large
number of small streams tributary to the
jim, or more properly, the Dakota river,
which not only drain the land we'll, but sup
ply an abundance of water, and they are
all, to some extent, skirted with fine growth
of timber. Water, clear and pure to the
taste, is found in abundance by digging
from twenty to fifty feet down. The climate
is not severe The winters are probably
three weeks longer than in Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois or Michigan. The air is clear and
bracing, and maiarial diseases are almost
unknown. The inhabitants are thrifty and
generally well-to-do, and have come from all
parts of the globe-not to live in idleness,
but at case.
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MifcIelt, Dakota.

One year ago, Mitchell, although the then
wonder of the west, was but an incorporated
town of 2 1000 inhabitants. To-day she is a
full-fedged charter city of double the size,
and with all the paraphernalia of city gov
eminent. The year has been remarkably
busy one. Every day has been the accom-
piishment OF some purpose previously formed,
and the foundation of new hopes to be real
lied. One notables feature of the improve
ments OF the past year is the substantial
character OF the buildings, Gladstone, sand
stone and Milwaukee brick blocks, with
French plate fronts, have crowded along both
sides Of Main street for a distance of half a
mile, and have branched out into the side
streets. Paatial residences have
doomed up in every portion of
the city, and coy cottages line
all the public thoroughfares. Among the
public buildings the court house is hand
some structure, and the court ROOM Offices
and furniture are generally pronounced the
best west of the Mississippi. The Catholic,
Methodist and Baptist churches are buildings
metropolitan III arrangement and design.
The public schools have been graded through
out, an admirable course of study adopted
and introduced, aud the whole school system
put in systematic and harmonious motion
A great university has been located, aud
commodious buildings will be erected during
the coming year. In the near future Mitch
ell will be as noted for her manufacturing
industries SIS she is now for the intelligence
and enterprise Of her citizens. During the
present season, business blocks, residences
and railroad houses and machine shops
foundry and machine shops Touring mills
and feed mills, the university building, the
great National Homestead Monument, a sys-
TEN of water-works and fire protection,
grand opera house, and Mitchell promises rs
rich future as any town the sun shines on.
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Litcher, Woontocket, Forestburg and Ros-
well are important towns in this county which
was once the western half of Miner county,
and is as fine a county of land as is often seen.
The far-famed Jim or Dakota river meaEders
through the county from north to south
nearly in the centre of the county, and hence
it lies in the very heart of the Jim River Val
ley. part Of the county east of the river
has been settled for some time. and has
many improved farms with from fifty to one
hundred acres each already under cultiva-
ton, and the quantity and quality OF the
crops that have been produced are not sur
passed by any section of the Territory.
The country west of the river can almost
be said to be the stock mans paradise. The
grass starts earlier in the spring and keeps
green later in the autumn than in any other
section Of the territory and the hay produced
from it will keep stock grow and in good
condition through the winter withou. grain
One Of the most successful stock men, who
has been here eight years, and is everywhere
known for the fine quality of his stock, says
that he can make more flesh in the winter
than he can in the summer, and that he
never feeds any grain.
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L1SDEKEs. WARNER & scHuRME1ER.
wholesale Dry Goods, Notions, Etc.


CORNER FOURTH AND SHELLEY STREETS.
Few buildings In this metropolis attract
more attention from visitors than that which
occupies the southwest corner of Fourth and
Sibley streets. 1t is attractive both on ac-
kcount of its splendid architectural finish and
its stately. palatial proportions. 1t scars to a
con siderable height, having four high stories
above the sidewalk, but really only one-half
of the building is visible, the basement and
sub basement being mostly hidden from
view The ground occupied is 101x130 feet
thus giving about two acres Of floor room in
side. It is truly dry-goods palace such as
has but few equals on the American contin-
ent, aud it was especially designed and built
for the well-known and enterprising firm
that occupies it, Messrs. Indexes, Warner
& Schumacher, the members being William
and a H. Lindeke, Reuben Warner and
Theodore L. Schumacher, all gentlemen Of
long experience and fully cognizant with the
which they serve, territory including
all the northwestern states and ter
ritories; from the great lakes to the
great ocean, and from the western middle
belt of this union to the northern
limits of the western Canadian
provinces. Since the year of its establish
ment, 1878, the business Of the house has
constantly grown, until now its annual sales
reach to millions Of dollars
A visit to the great depot OF dry goods and
notions is extremely interesting, and win
well repay any one who would gain an idea
of the vast extent to which the mercantile
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-08

The first thing sought after here in the way
Of land claims are tree claims, of which the
government allows one out of every section
of land As result, in short space Of
time We shall have ten acres Of timber grow
ing on every section Of land in Dakota. Add
g. these the shade aud lawn trees. and fruit
orchards that will bt set about the farm
houses and this now hmitleSs prairie Will
then present tae haudSomest landscape views
TINT mortal eve ever rested upon. The soil
of Dakota pr8iries grows nearly all varieties
of forest trees with astonishing raIidity. Soft
maple. cottonwood, ash Lombardy poplar,
English or stake willow, and the like, all do
splcudid,y on this prairie soil, and five years
from setting are large enough for fuel and
many useful purposes This has been thor
oushly proven through Minnesota and the
southern part of Dakota, rs every observing
traveller can testify.
St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1884-07-08

south, extending from the western boundary
of Lake county to and beyond the jim river.
Last autumn, the eastern portion of the coun-
" having become the more rapidly settled by
reason of its railway facilities, its residents
were numerous enough to bring the county
seat by vote, to the east side. This resulted
in a division of the territory into two coun-
ties by act of the legislature, the eastern por-
ton retaining the original name, Miner, and
constituting a section of the choicest farm
land in Dakota, twenty-four miles from east to
west and the same from north to south. 1t has
become a common and accepted proposition
that, mo matter what is planted in Miner
county soil, it grows.' One instance in
point will serve to illustrate: On the 24th of
August farmer of that county brought to
the Lake County mills the first new wheat of
the season, which yielded thirty bushels and
one peck per acre, testing 81 pounds to the
measured bushel-and his crop is no excep-
ton TO those of ueighbors surrounding. Corn,
oats, barley, fax aud buckwheat are not one
whit behind in point of proportionate yield.
The county is not without its waterforces
and supply, and is one of the best watered
counties in the northwest. It is noticeable
that the stock farms of Miner county, already
opened and in successful operation, are only
rivaled by those of the neighboring county
OF Lake throughout the territory, and as be-
tween the two neither can, in point of fact,
claim an advantage not also possessed in
common by the other.
On Rock creek Mr. J. l. Longly is making
sheep raising profitable industry, having
now flock of between three and four humid
red. Others are doing equally as well ON
both valleys, not in sheep only, but also, and
more extensively still, perhaps, in horses and
cattle.
Howard is the principal town in Miner
county.
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Rro,rn county. Dakota.

Brown county, of which Aberdeen is the
railroad and commercial centre, occupies a
place in the heart of the James River valley,
thiTty-six miles east and west, BY forty-eight
miles north and south, and contains 1,lO5,-
go acres of land, with soil of black loan of
eighteen inches to FIVE feet in depth.
This county was organized in the year
1850. and il has been scarcely two years
since yartion of it was occupied by band
OF Sioux Indians under Drifting Goose In
deed. TO-DAY tue trails Of the Indian vie with
that of the Buffalo. Brown county is new,
and not one-half of the surveyed lands have
vet been taken. Yet everywhere can be
seen evidences OF incipient fa-ming-little
humble cseius or the prosy sod houses con-
tSiniug occupants, each of whom possesses
the faith larrer than that Of the
mustard seed, who hopes aud wiz see
the full fruition of the hope, that in less than
five years these sod dwellings viii give place
10 bright airy residences, the homes OF cul-
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.FIamdreau, Dakota.

THE COUNTY SEAT OF MOODY COUNTY.
The first settlement of what is now Flan-
dreau, was made by Mr.. T. w. Pettigrew
about ten years ago. The village is situated
on the banks of the Big Sioux river, which
affords one of the very finest water-power in
southeastern Dakota, and presents a magni-
ficent opening for the establishment OF pro-
ductive manufacturing enterprises.
There are five churches; Methodist, Pres
by terrain, Catholic, and two Indian. An ex-
cellent graded school is established here.
The streets are well laid out. Sidewalks are
built all over the village. 1t has excellent
hotels, street lamps, and presents the APP
pearance of an eastern village. Society is as
good as can be found in any place in the
east. The citizens are Of an enterprising
and generous class.
The following figures give some idea OF
the business transacted during the year 1888:
One hundred and thirty thousand bushels
of wheat were marketed at this point.
There were also marketed II, 900 bushels of
oats, 1900 bushels OF barley, and $4,000
bushels of flax.
The banks have sold eastern drafts to the
business men during the last year, to the
amount of $40, 900
There are three stage routes; one daily,
one tri-weekly and one semi-weekly, besides
the regular daily mail by railway. There are
200 call boxes and fifty-two lock boZes.s
There were 500 ear loads of grain forwar-
ded last yeal, and 200 cars Of lumber and
100 cars of emigrants' goods received.
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The Han CrOp.

We hear a great deal about the big corn
and grain and vegetables of Dakota, but the
grass crop is not receiving the notice which it
merits. The prairie all over is covered with
Il luxuriant growth of grass, superior for
grazing and hay to any of the tame grasses
which are grown east. A heavy cut OF hay
may be taken from any place in the whole
country, and it has fattening properties
equal to the common grasses of other sec
tons with grain added. If the grass of Da-
kota could be turned into beef it would sup
ply the markets of the world for the next
twelve months. This crop is as good as gold,
and the day is not far distant when not a
single speer win be allowed to go to waste
Mitchell RlLnl5Acan
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1t has been found from carefully conduct
ed experiments by different persons, that
one bushel Of corn will make little over
10A pounds of pork, gross. Taking the re-
suit as basis the following deductions are
made. When corn is worth 121l cents per
bushel, pork viii cost the producer / Il cents
per pound. When corn is worth II cents
per bushel, pork will cost the producer 2
cents per pound. Wen corn is worth 25
cents per bushel, pork costs the producer Il
cents per pound. When corn is worth "a
cents per bushel, pork viii cost the producer
cents per pound. When corn is worth so
cents per bushel, pork will cost the producer
cents per pound. The above statements
show what the farmer realizes on his own
corn when in the form of pork, and thew
also demonstrate the fact that there is money
in corn at % cents per bushel when fed to
hogs at cents per pound.
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s32, 900 for his labor on an eighty-acre farm.
The expense Of living must come out of that,
and this can be made as large as any one
desires, even so large as to leave the poor
man without house or home. But there is no
need OF this. \ man must practice economy
in any business to succeed. A large garden
and fruit can be raised, poultry, pigs, ETC.,
which will in no way interfere weth the gem
eral returns of the farm. In fact, the more
stock raised and the more varied the crops,
the more likely are the returns to be regular
year after year.
We know there is profit in good farming.
We have seen farmers go on, year after year,
adding to their buildings, stock, acres, and
getting money out at interest, when mer-
chants and other business men went by the
board. The main wealth of the land to-day
Is its farms. a farm is certain, constant
gold mine, and requires only surface mining
to find pay streaks.
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cupied with mention of establishments O

cupied with mention of establishments Of
prominent character.
The Jobbers' Union has been formed to
protect the interests of the trade of the north
west in every way; it is intended to be of
mutual advantage to the iobbers of the me-
| tropolis and the country distributors Of goods.
st. Paul Is the natural point for the
| merchants of the northwest to procure their
goods, and the jobbers at this metropolis are
fG much interested in protecting their neigh
bors and friends of the tributary country as
they are in protecting themselves. They are
the stewards of the smaller dealers, and if
they are not capable of fully attending to the
wants of the northwest they want to know
why. They make every customer throughout
this rich domain honorary members of their
Union, land share with them the benefits that
may accrue. The motto, 'In Union is
strength y applies forcibly to this organiza-
ton.
The object Of these excursions is to allow
the jobbers to become personally acquainted
with the character and resources of the coun-
try they supply, and to meet at their own
homes the men with whom they have deal
ings. 1t is hoped that the visits may prove
| mutually pleasant and profitable, and that
they may cement the close relations already
existing between the city and the country
| merchants.
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BiH StOne Like

long, skirted with timber. From it flows the
Minnesota river, and the Minnesota line
forms its eastern boundary. A steamer line
makes regular trips up the lake, which is fast
becoming a summer resort The country
surrounding is gentle rolling prairie. with
a soil adapted to raising every kind of vege-
tables and many kinds of fruit. OrtonviIle
is situated at the southern extremity of Big
Stone lake, and is the county seat of Big
Stone county, one of the richest agricultural
sections of Minnesota.