The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1885-03-21
Who Should Come and What They
Can do.

Who Should Come and What They
Can do.
DICKINSON, D. t. March l6, 1885.
As the best time to como to this
favored part Of Dakota is near at
hand, wish to say a few words to
eastern readers about who should
come. First, all consumptives that
are in the first stage can have rea-
sonable certainty of finding complete
relief, and all, not i'm the last stage,
will be likely to DO greatly benefited
and portion perhaps be restored to
sound health. This climate seems to
be a cure for all pulmonary com.
plants, including asthma, also dys-
pepsia, and nearly all invalids soon
become we'll and vigorous if they
clothe properly and live much Of
their time in the open air and use
good digestlble food temperately.
Second, all men of capital who wish
to make profitable investments in
town property or stock and diversi.
fed farming or wish to loan money
on good real estate security, at 10 to
l2 per cent per annum, can find un-
equaled opportunities here for such
investments. Third, all owners of
the small lO0-acre, worn out farms in
the East, that barely enable them to
live, who can sell their farms so as to
come here with their stock and farm
machinery and have $4,000 to $4,000
to start with can take 800 acres of
choice government land and buy
800 acres railroad land adjoining
and have plenty to put up good
house, barn and stable, fence their
land with wire fence and stock it
we'll with cows, hogs and sheep.
Stock proof fence can be made for
80 to As cents per rod, with red cedar
posts. All necessary buildings for
good start can be made very cheap
and quickly. Building lumber costs
$26 to s35 per M., and our builders
will put up good large two-story
house, we'll finished in 20 to 80 days.
Three days is sufficient to build
small house of two rooms. Good
stables can be built Of sod and
thatched with straw that will be
warm and durable, but sod suitable
for good permanent wall can only
be found on our river bottom mead
ows (the upland prairie sod is very
tender) where there is plenty for all
the stables and barns that will be re-
quired. A sod house can be very
cheaply made and tho walls neatly
plastered with clay and SAID, that
will be neat and durable. Fourth,
all renters of poor farms in the East,
that have stock and tools to farm
there successfully, can here start on
800 acres of free land of their own;
sod building for start, and if there
are two or three workers in family
they will be able the first year with
good team or teams to raise more
value Of produce than the same labor
would make on the poor eastern land
and it is all their own, none goes for
rent and costly fertilizers, and il they
lay aside what the two latter cost
them East, they will soon be able to
put up fine buildings and fence their
land if they wish; but no fences are
required, our herd laws requiring
every man to take care of his own
stock. Fifth, all men who have
little capital: 5000 or $500 or more,
especially if all the family are work
ers, can make good start here and
soon be Independent, but l would not
advise = man with family to come
with barely the means to get here,
hoping to find work among our pio-
neers to get started on his own land,
yet many have done 80 who are now
independent after their years of hard
struggle, but they got employment
Of the railroad company for their
start and some help from the workers
in their families. / know men who
started with 5000, and some little
more. that were worth more than
that MANY thousands in three years
from their start. Nearly all Of our
farmers came with vory small means,
but those who have been hero three
years have good start; yet few farm
Oh 20 large a scale as to require hired
help, except in harvest and thrsshing.
consequently the supply Of farm labor
10 fully equal to or gseater than the
demand, and all who come should be
prepared to take land and work for
themselves. We are now we'll sup
piled with mechanics, yet az the land