Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1885-08-07
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ranch cattle business OF the United
States. The Importance OF this branch
of American industry is emphasized by
figures so large that they almost make
ones head swim.
The first statement in the report is
that the cattle ranch area embraces
about l,365,o00 square miles, and there
fore constitutes nearly d per cent. of
the total area Of the United States.
Our readers can better understand its
extent when we say it is equal to Great
Britain and Ireland, France, Germany,
Denmark, Holland, Belgium, Austria,
Hungary. Italy, Spain and Portugal and
one-ifth of Russia in Europe,
All this territory is devoted to beef.
We feed the world. The roast beet OF
old England ever comes from the great
west. More than 100000 head Of cat
tie Craze on the green plains east Of the
Rocky mountains, and their value
reaches the snug little sum Of about
S2D,0OO,OW. There is hardly a country
on the globe to which these cattle are
not sent, either on the hoof or nicely
packed in cans Or laid ON ice. The
steaks, the beef soup, the hash of all
creation are provided by thepicturesque
and irrepressible cowboys who roam
the prairies.
DR.. j. II. Day, q brother Of Postmas-
ter Day, has recently visited the Col
Vile country in Washington Territory,
which has been attracting a good deal
of attention Of late on account OF the
silver discoveries there, fort purpose
Of examining the recently opened
claims in that region: The gentleman
is an experienced assayist, and is con-
slderably interested in matters pertain
ing to mining. He writes to Postmas-
ter Day as follows, concerning the Col
vile discoveries:
The big find is six miles north of Col
vile. 1t is located on a mountain four
thousand or five thousand feet high,
and crops out twenty orthirty feet big.
The men are knocking the mineral off
Of The lodges, sackirg it, and sending it
to San Francisco, where they get over
5000 per ton, silver. They have four
or five 1,500-foot clearings onthis ledge.
1t is the biggest silver mine that has
ever been found in America-a noun
tain of silver ore that it will take fifty
years to work out. The owners of
it are Canadians, and afraid the Yanks
will get it from them, and they will not
make and promise to let any one have
an interest in any shape.
Delegate Clifford authorizes the state
ment that every clerk in the various
departments at Washington has abso.
Lutte orders not to disclose to any one
the nature OF charges filed against re.
publican officials. The penalty for vic.
lation of this rule is immediate dlsmis.
sal. Thus, it appears, the administra.
tion invites charges and protects the
parties producing them from any act
Of perjury they may choose to commit.
The Spanish inquisition in it's palmy
days, was little worse than this in its
secret methods and the despotism of
Russia to-day would hardly go SO far as
to deny to its official servants a hearing.
Under the guise Of civil service reform
the democratic party is Systematically
at work upon a fully matured plan to
smirch every republican who was I'M
fortunate enough to holdan office when
Mr.. Cleveland became president. In
the end all this will be used for cam
paign material. The democratic party
will say to the country: "We have re-
moved seyenty-five thousand (more or
less) republican officials for cause.'
The argument, based upon this asser-
ton, will be that it was time for a
change and thatthe democratic party
had rescued the country from republi-
can corruption. The assertion will be
a lie, of course, but the party which
strikes with the cowardly hand of a
sneaklng assassin may be expected to
utter falsehoods, official and unofficial
Delegate Clifford bases his statement
upon his own experience and the expe.
rience of other republican congressman
at Washington, and upon information
gained through their efforts to protect
their constituents from, tho opnro+iopc
Of this powerful star chamber. Every
official removed through the testimony
Of unknown witnesses should file
through his congressman, a demand fol
a certified copy of the evidence upon
which he was removed. The demand
will not be complied with, but it must
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