The Warner weekly sun. (Warner, Brown Co., Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1885, 1885-05-01


Reader, do you ever stop to contemplate the
latent wealth of this magnificent territory in
which you live? Do you ever think OF what
rich, powerful and populous state it is as sure to
become in the future as that future is sure to be?
If not, then you are very poor interpreter of
the signs of the times; a very poor observer an6
discoyerer of the latent forces of nature, aud
your ability to make an intelligent comparison
between the state from whence you came and
this sturdy young infant, is far from the aver
age,
Compare it with the states of Minnesota and
Iowa, the banner states of the northwest, and in
what single feature does it fall below them in
excellenceS With its 100000 miles of tillable
land it is capable of sustaining and supporting
by its products alone, the entire population of
the United States.
The rich lande OF Minnesota and Iowa are
greatly Offset by large tracts of inferior and
waste land. This is true of nearly all the states
and territories. Not SO with Dakota. Nearly
all the entire area embraced within her bounda
ries can be proftably utelized by the husband
man. For the depth and richness of their soil,
for the beauty of contour and the economy of
their topography, the vast prairies of Dakota,
challenge the world. THIS added to and sup
ported by the pleasantest, healthest and most
exhilarating climate under the sun, and time
alone stands between Dakota and Dakota splen-
dor and greatness.
| But this is not all. Monstrous coal beds lie
beneath her alluvial covering, ready to pour
their bituminous wealth upon her people, and
fill their homes with warmth and cheer. Her
mineral wealth, already immense, promises in
the course of development to rank with the
richest mineral regs;ens ef the world.
/ The growth of the west that is sealing the
doom of eastern rings and monopolies and toll
ing the knell of departing organizations of the
east, has a double significance for Dakota.
Situated as she is at the head of that mighty
water way, the Missouri river, which courses its
way through what is destined to be, at no very
distant day, the heart and center of this gigan-
tic commonwealth She has but to load t. Q
limitless products OF her soil upon its buoyant
waters and float them to market. Not only does
this stream furnish US cheap transportation for
our salable products, but the forces idly play
ing in its swift current represent the greatest
available powar in the civilized world, and will
eventually be utilized in immense manufactur-
ing industries.
! The man who sees Dakota as il is, and has
faint idea Of what it is bound to be, win loose
no time in securing portion of her valuable
domain. The guara.tee of 500 per cent. on the
investment by W. H. Vanderbilt, could not en-
chance its safety.
We can say without boasting that our per-
sonal knowledge of Dakota Is not a superficial
one. Seven years of our brief career have been
passed on her prairies and in her towns of al
most magic growth; three Of these years being
employed on the government survey, and al
ways keeping to the front, our opportunities for
observing the speedy transformation of her
beautiful uninhabited prairies into fields of
waving grain. and the unparalleled growth of
her paper townsites into Hourishing villages,
and her villages into thriving cities. have been
excellent.
Never, under the broad canopy of heaven,
has the development of any country been more
rapid and substantial. And while our growth
in the past has exceeded all expectations; we
have every reason to believe that Of the future
will be equally phenomenal. We have enumer-
ated but few Of the advantages of Dakota. The
possibilities of Dakota's future are infinite, the
probabilities are grand and the certainties are
unequaled.