St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-05-08
1880 | 1885
Number of inhabitants. -.
Number of farms.
81 T7,4S6
81 1888
Il 1,10S,231
'I26,s06,393

II seems almost Incredible in view of the
| foregoing facts that there should be any
one who could be found to justify division
of Dakota on the 46th parallel, and it is a
| fact almost as indisputabie that theere is
| scarcely any one to be found DESTROYS Of
division except the lean and hungry politi-
clan and the horde Of aspirants
and would-be statesmen with which
| Dakota is abundantly blessed.
| Objection is also made against its shape.
| if divided on the Missouri, ''the length
| being $50 miles, maximum width 200 miles.
| and width at the Nebraska boundary line
| of about 100 miles" That this is frivolous
and untenable may be argued from the his
| tory and geography of many other states of
the Union. for it makes very little differ
| ence how wide state may be at top or
bottom, or how long it u.s. so long as it has
railroads to connect its extremities.
In this respect Dakota has already
ample means of communication on an east
and west line, and what it needs for it's
| speedier development and the compile full
tillment OF its destiny are longitudinal
lines of road. A division OH the 46th par
allel would have tendency to put off that
day which Dakota so much desires to see
when the North and the South shall be
united in one common brotherhood by
hooks of steel and
BANDS OF IRON.
In the consideration of the agricultural. in
dustrlal and commercial character of the
proposed territory, which might very prop
| erly be euphoniZed into Lincolnia. it is use
full to know that there was in it, in June
| last, as developed by the census taken in
that month, population of nearly SO, 600.
now estimated to be over 40, 900; the five
counties, composing the Black Hills. con-
tanning 1926, and owing to the ex-
| tension of the Chicago & Northwestern
rapidly increasing the four counties
| through which the Northern Pacific
railroad runs west from Bismarck, con-
| tanning 9,317, the rest of the territory oc-
| cupied by whites, lying chiefly along the
| upper Missouri slope, having over 5000
| people in it. The two large Indian reser-
vations within its borders, divided int
twenty-five counties, containing, accord
ing to Gen. Sheridan's report for 1885. over
25.0O0,O 600 acres according to Surveyor
General Taylor's estimate, 26,S47. 1875
acres), large portions of which are only
adapted for pastoral purposes, but of which
by far the larger portion Is as suitable for
agricultural purposes as any in Dakota
These $4,000, 600 acres at present are
occupied by $4,000 Indians, which would
give over $40 acres to every man, woman
and child among them. That such a con-
dtion OF things will exist much longer is
not to be believed, and accordingly it is
fair to assume that this large tract will be
opened for settlement in the near future.
Abolish the tribal relations and open I'M
these reservations for settlement that have
SO long been cursed with the last relic of a
PREHISTORIC BARBARIsM.
and let in the early pioneers of civilization
with their compass and chain, and those
other pioneers with the iron horse and the
Pullman palace car and it will not be long
before the 'uninhabitable' and so called
arid belt Of Central Lincolnia will flourish
like the green bay tree and if the history of
Dakota's growth be any criterion, $50. 600
people will ''nake things hum" there in
the next five years.
But it might also be useful to know. as
illustrating the present capabilities of the
proposed territory and as forecastng its
possibilities. what its industries were ac
cording to the story which the census tells.
for we do not deal in guesswork. but are
able to produce the facts and the figures.
The territory Of Lincoln, as described in
the bill for its creation, contains about
TO- 900 square miles or A, 800, coo acres r.
is divided into 30 counties, 25 of which are
in the Indian reservations, as stated. and
of the other SO there are 16 already
organized
In June, 1885, those thirty-three counties
with their $4,000 population contained
4, 1877 farms, aggregating 762, 1873 acres. of
which 251, S44 were improved, Welding
products for 1884 Of the value of 5000. O24.
h whole valued at $5,51S,0 91. There