Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1884-04-25
The Wonderful Northwest.

we live in. The survey last year of the
River Yukon, in Alaska. shows it to be
a stream of the second magnitude. 1t
rivals the Danube and the La Plata.
1t is navigable for lightdraught vessels
for fully 1860 miles. The expedition
was undertaken last year by Lieut..
Schwatka. The exploration was made
on Il very frail raft, but it n~avigated
over IL thousand miles of a dangerous
river. Some day Alaska will he Il State.
and a very rich one at that.-Demorest's
Monthly.
The Deadwood Times says: The
Hack Hills contain extensive deposits
of other minerals, which, like mica, can
never be mined and exported proftably
until railways equallize labor and trans
portation with prices paid throughout
the United States. Among these min
erals are asbestos, plumbago, ochre, and
fire clay. These magazines Of wealth,
like our coal, iron, and timber, must lie
idle and Improbable until railways
connect us with the world.
Philadelphia Call: Canadian Hotel
Keeper don't see how we are going
to get along. The house is about emp
ty, yet it is impossible to reduce expen-
ses. Look owe the American papers
and see what the news iS
Hotel Clerk have looked over
them. There has not been a big defal-
cation in the United States for two
weeks.
Canadian Hotel Keeppr-My stars,
we will be ruined. l never knew the
times to be so dull.
The preparations for the coming re-
publican convention in Chicago are be-
ing completed by the subcommittee.
The plans for convention hall made by
the musical festival committee were
adopted with modification. increasing
the seating capacity of the galary so
that the hail will accommodate between
S,OOOand 1900 exclusive of the platform
for delegates, which has a seating ca
pacity of LOCO. Provision has been
for the press of the country upon as lib
eral basis as possible, and a reportorial
force OF about 600 can be accommodate
ed.
The New York Agricultural Expert
ment Station has made careful eXper-
iment the past season as sc the portion
of the potato best for seed. The result
goes to show that "the vitality Of eyes
used as seed increases according to the
position they occupy upon the potato
toward the terminal point or seed end
One experiment, however carefully
made, cabnot be regarded as conclusive
ly settling a point upon which there is
much diversity of opinion. Yet one Sc
thoroughly and scientifically made Il:
that above named, will throw the bur
den of the evidence IN taNoro of the eye
farthest from the stem rs best TO
planting.
The American Cultiyator gives tn
annual cheese and butter product of TIN
United States at 35o,N0o,Oo0 pounds ant
|, 5Oo.0O0.0D pounds respectively. an(
concludes that their united value ex
ceeas that of the wheat cropty>&50,0G0
600, and so on by comparison with 9th
er crops. We think this conclusion ;
little exaggerated. The quantity OF in
ferior cheese and butter produced being
so much greater than Of the higher
grades, probably 9 cents q pound fol
cheese and Is cents q pound for butter
is a fair estimate of the average price
both. AT these figures their aggregate
value, assuming the quantity to be cor.
rectly given. would hardly exceed $500:
100000. IF, instead of the stuff sold by
the ton in our large cities as grease
etc, which never was called buttersave
on the farm where it was made, real
dairy butter should be produced, there
is little doubt that the cheese and but.
ter product would soon attainthe value
awarded TO it by our contemporary.
The agricultural returns of Great
Britain fer 1882 gave t%hecountry $500,
600 cows and heifers in calf.
Gov. Nrlway told u reporter of The
New York Tribune that the governor
Of Dakota either had to ''ride Or bt
ridden" Just at the present time il
looks as though the territory was doing
the riding, and that the>6M man has I
bigger load than he Il carry.