Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-10-13
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New Governor.
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NeW 0OV0tuOr.
Chicago News.
The wisdom Of the appointment OF
Col. Gilbert A. Pierce to the governor.
ship of Dakota is fast being demon.
strated. From all parts of that peaceful
and prosperous territory come reports
OF such nature as to leave no doubt
that Pierce is to-day the most benignant
potentate on the surface of the earth.
The crops of Dakota have never been
what they are this year; corn stands
eleven feet high, wheat shows an average
OF sixty-tive bushels, tomatoes have
grown to the size of pumpkins, apples
are 80 large that they have to be split in
two before one man can carry them from
the orchards, pears have attained to such
size that they have to be lowered from
the tree by derricks, and the ordinary
small fruits have thrived 30 luxuriantly
that huckleberry or blackberry or :
raspberry affords good, square meal to
the heartiest man. From the mining
districts come advlces of an encouraR.
ing nature. Claims which were
worthless last spring are
now of vast value: mines which were
supposed to have been exhausted have re.
vived and are yielding fabulous wealth !;
gold is now found in localities which
were abandoned years ago, and silver
literally protrudes from the earth in
those localities which the prospector de-
serted last winter as barren fields.
The huntsman, too, sends word that
game abounds in unusual quantities in
Dakota this fall; buffalo range over the
sowery prairles in vast droves, and, by q
remarkable coincidence, each buffalo
appears to have given birth to twin
calves this season. Deer, antelope. bear,
ducke, geese, grouse, partridges, and ali
kinds of feathered game are 90 plentiful
that it is believed that the game laws of
the territory will have to be Temporarily
suspended in order to rid the prairies Of
the superabundance Of game. The
rivers. lakes and creeks are literally
alive with fish; nothing like it was ever
heard of before. A brook trout four
feet long and weighing thirty pounds
the small streams near Bismarck. An
other indication of the great success of
Gov. Pierce's administration is to be
found in the fact that during the three
months of its existence 30 far, immigra-
WILL uoS 4uCIcdscu cjkuty per cent.
per week. The Influx OF females
is particularly noticeable. Heretofore
there has been a scarcity of
women in the territory, but
as soon as Gov. Pierce was inaugurated
it seemed as il every unmarried woman
on the continent made break for Dako.
ia. The result is that the farmer, the
miner, the COW boy, the mechanic and
the male citizen of Dakota generally,
has no difficulty now in finding q wife
among the large caravans of beautiful
ladies that arrive daily at the prominent
distributing points in search of homes,
husbands and happiness. So, in every
base and in every condition of Dakota
life We find at present degree of pros
perity and promise unequaled in the an.
nails of time. We congratulate Gov
Pierce upon the great and glorious work
he Is accomplishing. and we congratu-
late Dakota upon having called to the
guidance Of her destiny man so com
petent to the task Of converting her vas,
prairies into blooming eden, and bel
history into one gland and beautiful
poem.