The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1888-12-07
n TERRITORY.
Value of Dakota Lands.

THE TERRITORY.
Value Of Dakota Lands.
Farming lands OF the best quality are
cheaper in Dakota to-day than elsewhere
in the northwest. Unimproved lands of
the best quality. with perfect title, nicely
located in good neighborhoods near
school md church privileges, with plenty
OF neighbors and within ten miles of u
thriving railroad town, with market aud
commercial advantages, can be had for SO
or 50 per acre. The terms Of payment are
made easy. A portion only of the pur-
chase money need be paid down; the bal-
ance can be paid in the purchasers own
good time. A few hundred dollars will
erect buildings and purchase a team and
other necessary articles. Some hard work.
q; little self-denial aud n few years of
waiting for ground to become thoroughly
pulvcrized, and for trees and shrubbery to
grow and the Industrious farmer has a
home to which he eau point with pride,
and which by the rise in land generally
has become truly valuable. If one dis
likes to begin by opening up a farm from
tue start, he can purchase u partially inn
proved farm for about 50 or $40 per acre,
Such IL farm would have a small house, u
we'll, n few trees and from forty to one
hundred acres of ground under c~ultiva-
ton. One purchasing such n tract would
have a place to begin living at once and
land enough under cultivation to make his
living and something more with which
to improve his farm each wear. A
farm with this amount of improves
inents nables the purchaser to begin
profitable farming ut once, and his family
never experience any of the hardships Of
pioneer life. In u year or two the pur-
chaser has u comfortable home, with all
the comforts of an eastern farm home.
which was sold at four or five times the
amount paid for his pleasant Dakota home.
Improved farms, with house, barns, gram
aries and outbuildings as good as the or
binary farms of older states, with five or
ten acres of forest trees twenty feet high,
fenced pastures, 100 acres or more under
cultivation. some fruit and shrubberv,
making a complete farm home, can be
bought for for $50 to $25 per acre, and
occasionally for even less than that.
An eastern farm, which is not increasing
in value. can he sold for enough TO buy
four times as many acres in Dakota Of
equally us good land and nearly as we'll
located, and which will more thar double
Ill value within the next three years. The
reasons for this are apparent to all. For
years Dakota has been denied admission.
The rapid strides made in settlement and
material progress has been made in spite
of the oppression OF the general govern
ment. But now the tables are turned.
The next administration will be very
friendly to Dakota, and will afford her
every facility for advancement. Dakota
will be divided and both sections admitted
to the union, aud then she will have such
u boom us has never been before witnessed
in the northwest. immigration will in
crease rapidly, capital will seek investment
there, business will revive, rates o fintercst
and taxes will be much lower, and a time
of general prosperity will he inaugurated
that can not fail to make the rich farming
lands double i'll Mlue ut once.
Tho Asylum Collapse.
L. b. Jenny of Chicago and Sidney
Smith of Omaha, architects belonging to
the Architects association. engaged to cx-
anime the work of the asylum which fell
through recently and killed two men, have
rendered the following report. In regard
to the causes of the fall of a portion of the
east wing, which occurred October %.
after IL careful consideration of all the cir
cumstances rs related by the workmen and
others. and which statements substantially
agree i'll all important particulars. and also
from what we are able to learn from the
designs and from the building, the under-
signed you'd state that from the best of
their knowledge and belief the accident
was caused by the falling of IL floor arch of
the third flor, adjacent to the outside wall,
causing the floor arches of the several
other cells to follow, and pushing out IL
portion of the outer wall. The said floor
arch, the fall of which was, as we believe.
the sole cause Of the accident, was of very
recent construction and the mortar still
green. The outer wall adjacent wal
scarcely higher than the spring of the arch;
not high enough to receive the end
of the tie rods and not * ct as.
sisted by the weight of the stories
above. 1t had no power to resist the
thrust of said floor arch. This arch was
held in place solely by the center below
and it is alleged that the removal of 81. d
center was followed Immediately by the
fall of said arch and the attendant conse-
quences. Af,er IL careful examination it
is the conviction of the undersigned that
the accident was solely due to the removal
Va '"A IVA ~ Aohk us h,llu center
remained i'll place the arch could not fail
and no such accident could have occurred.
The undersigned cannot learn that there
was any cause, or that my person in au-
thority ordered the removal of this center,
or that the superintendent of construction
was aware that it was being removed until
too late to prevent tho accident. We be-
lieve it was done by unauthorized work.
men, ignorant of the inevitable conse-
quences. The undersigned would further
state that in their opinion this accident
was n that could not be guarded against,
it being always possible. during the con
struction of large buildings. for an ignor-
ant or thoughtless workman to knock away
n temporary support and be the immediate
cause of n serious accident.
Sick savages at Fort ~lserthoid.
Indian Agent Jones, of the Berthold
agency, has made application TO the de-
partment for a physician who shall remain
constantly at the agency. This request is
the result of hurried examination of the
health of the Indians. Mr.. Jones was re-
Gently appointed. He finds that disease
runs rampant among the entire Indian
community. The Indians ut this agency
IRE in a most deplorable condition. In the
past their health has been neglected. they
have been permitted to roam about the
country, and as n result some members of
the tribe have returned to their camps Ia