Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1886-02-08

IN Tonnage and bearing excellent fruit
Lemons have far more delicate constj
tut1ops.
The settlers talk jnbilantly over tn
general result. Here are samples o
their views: "This freeze is worth
million dollars to Orange county. Th
northern counties have suffered tel
times as badly as We have" "My larg,
bearing grove is worth $4,000 more sine,
the freeze than it was before, for 8,
many young groves are killed and frui
will be higher for q long tine." ether,
never was so good a time to plant
young grove as now; when some are dis
couraged and quitting a business that il
the best time to enter into it," "ThiI
disaster shows what our own section car
stand when other parts are totally ruin.
ed. Orange county will now have a big.
ger boom than ever"
For my " part, / must say that ]
hold my wild land here higher than
before and think it all the more valuable
since the recent terrible test which has
Knocked the value out of SO large an area
of Florida. In fact / am more than
satisfied with the location.
We have had more rains lately, follow.
ed tonight by q cool breeze from the
northwest, indicating that Dakota has
been having another blizzard. III SO
Il -EN
then you will have deep drifts 10 shovel
and no end of mud, slush and water
when it thaws again, while here, the
moment it stops raining, the roads and
walks are in their best possible
condition. No roads to shovel, or side
walks to clean off; only the clean damp
sand and warm spring weather. The
winter beauty of the flower gardens has
been destroyed by that most unusual
freezing weather, but ] see wild flowers
blooming daily. The woods about my
house are full of quail and hunters are
numerous. A fox.hound went by the
other day, sounding his cry, in full chase
after a deer, followed by the hunter on
horseback. At my brothers we dined on
a delicious wild turkey killed by q
cracker or native near by. A few days
later a family named Jacobs, living half
a mile fIom this postoffice, went out
after deer and killed four. They sent
the best of the venison to Orlando, for
sale. To-day 1 have bought a hind
quarter OF venison from a "oracker," and
we find it the most delightful, tender
steak. Price ten cents per pound.
Many will be interested in prices we
pay here in these remote country stores.
Best flour $500 per barrel; dry sailed
pork, 8 cts; bacon, 8 cts; white sugar,
8 cts.; beans, 6 ots.; meal and hominy,
21a cts; rice, 8 cts; fresh pork, 20 eta.
sweet potatoes, 30 cts; Irish potatoes,
|$l75; canned salmon, is cts; condens-
ed milk, 1919 cts.; common lumber,
S12.OO; best had flooring, stip-iap, etc.,
$500 to $4,000. Carpenters wages,
1925 to $500; common laborers, $1.25
without board.
Fuel costs nothing. The woods are
strewn with an abundance of pine knots
and "light-wood' of the best kind, all
ready to burn; white the oak and pine
timber that covers my land must be cut
down, piled in log heaps and burned up
IN the old down east style, to clear any
land on which to plant fruit trees and
vegetables.
Hard water is unknown about here.
The water of the lake by our door is
soft, pure, agreeable to drink and per.
fectly h%ealthful. The outdoor life, mild
weather and constant activity give us
all excellent appetites; the children play
in the sand, grow strong and healthy, and
enjoy their picnic wonderfully; and We
find 1T no trouble at all to dispose OF
twenty oranges per day in this house.
hold, with none but agreeable results.
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