Devils Lake inter-ocean. (Devils Lake, Ramsey Co., Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1905, 1885-10-03
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! maenton of Devils Lake, think refer
zoe y made % the internal regions.
3 Hut Issthinkt their number must be few,
lCr ne fame Of this interesting portion
oe Dakota has gone out through all the
lind, andits reputation . anything butt
internal. In fact I think the devil is
highly complimented by having go
s;halndsome = lake and so promising y
! town named in his honor, and has re-
ceiveds more than his due.
This town-itsi is called = sity here
has about. one thousandpopulation, and
insonlyy shout two years old. Ever since
4 startedit has had steady and healthy
growth, and has It now. Too many
western towns start with a boom. get
ridiculously high ideas of their own i'm
portance, and prove the truth Of the
Scripture assertion that s'pride goeth
before destruction" by fattening out,
but Devils Lake is not one Of them.
Situated. a it is. OF q beautiful body Of
salt water, bearing the same name, in
the; midst of a region of exceptional fer.
tility, it gives promise Of maintaining
the position it now holds Of the most
important city in this part Of Dakota. 1t
offer, and will continue to offer, many
business openings of which men in the
less. active towns Of the east would do
well to avail themselves.
"A stranger having heard of the won
derful fertility Of this section and COM
ing here might be disappointed by the
land close to town, for next the lake it
is q little inferior. But let him take a
horse and get out into the country a
few miles, and I will miss my guess if
his fondest hopes are not realized. Many
Pennsylvanians are settling north Of
here in Towner county. and they could
not have struck a better location. The
land is gently rolling prairie, rich and
green, and stretches away in primitive
loyeliness far beyond the reach Of WIS.,
ion. It is already becoming dotted with
little houses; a very short time will suf-
flee to have the land all taken up, and
few years more will see it developed
into one of the richest portions of our
country. N~inety-eight thousand eight
hundred and eighty acres were entered
in the Devils Lake land district in the
month Of June alone, which shows now
thoroughly awake people are to its
value, and how they are crowding in.
Whoever wishes to come here and take
advantage Of the privileges the govern
ment gives him will do we'll to come soon
and have fret pick. And there are
many in the over-crowded east who
ought TODD this if they only knew it. A
young man in one of the older states,
without inheritance, will find it almost a
hopeless task to earn money enough to
buy a farm and a home, and at best he
will be ready to die by the time he has
succeeded. But he can come here and.
get government land free, and not many
years will pass " his head before it
win be worth more per acre than the
old homestead where he was born, for
it is better land than the rugged hills of
Pennsylvania and New England. And
he, in the meantime, has been raising
smiling crops ofwheat, barley, oats, and,
We hope, children, and if the latter he
has money enough to educate them as
they deserve.
It is we'll that enterprising settlers
from the east are filling up North Dako-
ia 20 rapidly, but it is no wonder to one
acquainted with the advantages of soil
and climate, its healthfulness and it's
business energy. But there comes an
end to all things, and there will be an
end to the free government land in the
not far distant future, and what then?
For years these western lands have re-
lieyed the too great pressure in the east,
and when they are gone a new problem
In social economy will be presented.
But while the sun shines we will make
hay. PENNsYLyAN1AN.