Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., Dak. [N.D.]) 1883-1884, 1884-01-25
there being hundreds of people who
come and are coming to this country too
late to get choice lands in choice local.

come and are coming to this country too
late to get choice lands in choice local.
tiles.
Stock can be raised here cheaper than
in Nova Scotia. New Brunswick, or
Maine, our winters being six to eight
weeks shorter. and hay costs less.
Some people always try to jump a
stream before reaching it, and very
often tumble in. Such will be the case
with those who are already figuring as
to what will become of Dakota when her
wheat crops fail. after the land gives
out. No one has ever reached the bot
they dig deep for water, and during this
and the next, and the next generation
Dakota will provide bread for the thous-
andS who live in a less favored land.
What about drouth? some one says. and
the past season answers, a dry season.
that in any other country would have
Wllted every green thing up-;l dry seas
OH that may not again he repeated for
years-and North Dakota stood the test
and came out ahead with from Is to 25
bushels of No. Hard to the acre.
Now MIR. Editor if did not fear this
article was already too long for
your columns and patience would like
1 to write you about this particular locality
about CooperstoWn scarce a year old,
about her founders, Cooper BROS, the
Bonanza farmers who the past season
ran 2G selt-binders three weeks, to cut
their immense cropS--abOut her $1,000
school house. her $4,000 Palace Hotel,
the Union and restaurants, about her
bank and its capital, her 50,OOO-bnshsl
elevator and -gN nd railroad depot.
about her four general stores and her
business transacted i'll one season, about
her land agents, lawyers and doctors
her post office, drug store and printing
office, about her livery stables. butcher
shops, and last but not least her church
society and its worknOt torgetink her
Glee Club and social institutions. Yes.
If time permitted [ should like tO tell
you something of tiriggs county, witllthe
Sheyenne river meantlerlngs south through
its eastern llalf-well wooded and settled
with III enterprising Norwegian popula-
tion--about the beautiful lakes of clear
water, too numerous or small to name.
except as some settler may name from
fancy, OF l might tell you of Lake Jes-
sic and its scenery, of the pleasant time
spent there with picnic party -boat-
ing, playing croquet etc, but it might
all seem as some fairy tale after what
you have heard, and doubtless believe
OF the other side of the picture.
When you consider that ten years ago
no white man lived between Fargo on
the Red River of the North and Bismarck
our present capital OH the Missouri.
where then naught but herds of wild
buffalo or wilder Indians roamed across
those plains-and now the iron horse
wends his way toward the setting sun.
and on every side thousands of acres
have been broken in, and give tn the
world the result of labor and enterprise.
When you consider this, is it to be
wondered at that some inconveniences
have to be met, some hardships to be
encountered, and it may be somebody
suffer.
Hoping Mr.. Editor that if any of your
readers have anticipated coming to this
part of Dakota, they may be permitted
to do so, and afterward bless the day
they directed their steps to this far off
land
lam sincerely yours,
WITTER II. WHIDDEN.