The Dickinson press., 1885-01-31
EXCHANGE EP1TOME.
MANDAN PIONEER.

In conversation with Register Rea,
of the land office, he remarked that
he believed congress will reduce all
the government land along the North
ern Pacific track to the minimum
price of $l.25 per acre. He has met
no one yet who is opposing the move
of reduction, and in fact every body
favors it.
The Northern Pacific has just re-
duced rates Oh emigraut movables,
in car lords from st. Paul and Mime.
apolis to all points OH the main line
in Washington territory and Oregon.
The reduction amounts to thirty.
three and one.third per cent. Now
it is to be hoped that a reduction
will be effected in emigrant nova
bles to Dakota.
JAMEsTOwN CAPITAL.
Charles S. Fee, the most popular
and accommodating general passen-
ger agent the Northern Pacific has
ever had, states that emigrant rates
from st. Paul to Portland will be
placed the coming year at $50. Now
this is very good, but the people of
North Dakota would like to know
something about emigrant rates from
st. Paul to Jamestown, Mandan and
other points. If it is worth only $50
to carry emigrants LOO miles from
st. Paul to Portland, how much ought
they to be carried for three or four
hundred miles out on the line OH
divisions operated at much less ex.
pcnse than the western division! We
think Dakota has the first claim t"
the consideration of the Northern
Pacific in the matter of low rates for
immigrants. The motto of the com.
pany should be Build as you CO."
and the vast acres of our fertile prai.
rie land should be first populated lr-
fore any steps are taken looking to
the settling up of the lands beyond.
We should have a very low rate for
immigrants in 1885.
SIOUX FALLS LEADER.
A balance of over S2lS,00O in the
territorial treasury ought to convince
even Senator Vest that there is sona
bottom to Dakota. The Leader vem-
lures the prediction that not to en-
ceed half-dozen states have larger
balances in the treasury than Dakota.
BISMARCK TRIBUNE.
There is nothing so very terrible
about Il Dakota winter. Our winters
are no colder than those of New
England. AS the country settles up,
the ground is turned over and forests
are planted, the climate will no doubt
undergo great and material moditica-
tions. The winters will be mil,ler
and there will he more rainfall in tho
summer. There is All opinion preva.
lent, even among some of our own
people, that Dakota can never lie
thickly settled. This is an erroneous
impression. The tendency will br
towards small farming. The llnl
will be cut up into small holdings
and the roads will be lined with sn
cnsy homes, us they are in the olde.'
settled portions of the country.
DEVILS LAKE DEMOCRAT
North Dakota must be content to
take whatever legislation the south
is willing to give. 1t is emphatically
South Dakota legislature.
Parties in the east who are intend
ing to locate in the west next spring
should take particular note of the
fact that the many cases of freezing
lately reported have been in Nebras-
ka, Kansas and Indian territory, and
not in Dakota.
BLACK HILLS PIONEER.
Two of the cowboys winged by Jim
Davis at his saloon on Sand creek the
other night, are at Spearfish and are
getting along first rate. The third
one. who had received but flesh
wound is at his house and taking it
easy. These cowboys will in time
learn that they must obtain permis-
sion of the owners of lamps, to shoot
them from their moorings, before
starting in, as there is more than one
jim Davis in the Black Hills.