St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-03-10
The Second Chapter in the
Story Told by Budd
Reeve.
He Outlines the Points Need
full in Seeking a New
Home.
Dakota and the Red River
Valley Are Being In
troduced.
The Winter One of the At
tractive Features, Budd
Says.
Special Letter to the Globe.

Special Letter to the Globe.
BUXTON, Dak., March S.-The sub
ject of getting home stands pre-emi-
nently above all others. How shall it
be gotten and where shall it be? If
these questions could only be answered,
or were freely suited, how many would
be happy? 10 acquire home and be
master of it requires time and effort.
and in most cases something else must
be sacrificed or given up. To 60 in the
right direction and choose the right
thing is the first important step and start
ing point. There are thousands ready
who would gladly make the effort if
they could only feel sure Of gaining the.
desired end. The place, where shall
that be? This is the first thing to de-
termine, and an important thing it u.s.
too. If you don't get the right place to-
SOW the seed, a lifetime of labor may bel
but poorly rewarded. The result and
reward of all labor is wrapped up in the
harvest. "What shall the harvest be?',
This is the question which concerns
men and angels both. If the harvest is,
lacking you have met with dead fall
ure. In contemplating the subject of a.
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my purpose to present the
CLAIMS OF DAKOTA
and the Red river valley. And in pre-
senting this favored land the reader is
asked to keep in mind the fact that
there is no spot on the globe which is
absolutely perfect. Advantages and
disadvantages are scattered around;
they are never all concentrated in one
place-nOt even in Dakota. But take it
| together. up one side and down the
other, weighing everything fairly and
| Justly, Dakota not only possesses its
full share of merit. but offers superior
advantages to the home seeker. The
richness and prOductiveness OF the soil
! is beyond question. The day has passed
and gone when fertility and richness
and superiority of amount and quality
are questions to be proven. These
features have become well known and
| established facts. The Red river valley
has never yet refused to yield and bring
forth an abundant harvest. Please put
| Every stOrehOuse, even at this late sea-
son of the year, is full of choicest
grain, and the railroads now, as
since harvest are being taxed to their
fullest capacity to meet the demands OF
transportation. These facts and cOndi-
tons are matters of public and official
record, and it is unnecessary to occupy
time and space to add testimony to
something universally known and I'M
disputed. 1t is from different stand
point propose to present view OF Da-
kota and
TIE RED RIVER VALLEY.
l shall endeavor to discuss the
features commonly called drawbacks
and disadvantages, and in presenting
these features, seriousness and truth
| fulnesS are always to be kept in sight.
1t is not my purpose to mislead anyone
looking for home, but to present
| naked facts in reference to the country.
When it comes to representing or mis-
representing any country, there ought
to be law Furnishing advertising
agents and newspaper correspondence
with fine and Imprisonment for mis-
representing or Over-cOlOring a country
for the purpose of trapping hon
est home seekers and getting their
money without value received.
Then there ought to be a law
against lbeling country and trying to
keep settlers out of it, and trying to
make those dissatisfied who are there.
In selecting a place to make home,
the first question to settle is, has the
place IN contemplation good produce
tive soil? If it is barren and unproduc-
tive it makes no difference whether it
is perpetual summer or winter, it is all
the same; there can be no harvest, no
reward for labor, and nothing on
home. The man who is looking
over maps and studying the advantages
and disadvantages of different parts of
the country, will find the first question
of greatest importance settled beyond
doubt or contradiction when he strikes
the Red River valley. He can turn to
reports and statistics furnished by the
government and get full information as
to the character and prOductiveness of
the soil, and in selecting a place.
TO BUILD A HOME,
he can 20 forwOrd with absolute GER
tainty and assurance of success. There
is a big difference between starting out
with certificate in your pocket from
the government, guaranteeing the place
of your choice, to land which has
proved its own value, to land in close
connection with all the markets, COW
cred by railroads. There is a vast diff
ference between a land of this kind
than running risks and trying expert
ments in unknown wilds, doomed by
interested parties and hired agents.
The official reports, the returns of
actual weights on the scale beam and
the deposits in banks is the advertise
ment and guarantee the Red river val
| ley offers to the home seeker. l hope
to be pardoned for being somewhat full
and long on certain points, for the i'm
pOrtance OF starting right and getting
| the main features of advantage and dis
| advantage properly understood cannot
be overestimated. In starting or ac-
complishing anything the undertaken
should first feel that he is on the right
track. ''Be sure you are right, then go
ahead" is the principle to follow.
This is the first thing to settle before
starting. ''Be sure you are right. )"
After settling the point of richness and
times turns up his eye in sly kind of a
way and wants to know, "HOw
ABOUT THE BILLIARDS
and long cold winters? Ho do you keep
| from freezing to death on an open
prairie! If you don't freeze, how do
| you keep from dying with the blues?
How does your wife like it? should
think she would 90 off and
leave you rather than stay
| there. What can you make
out of children raised in that country?
| l should think you would be afraid they
| would blow away in the summer and be
buried under snow drifts in the winter.
| Are there any churches, schools or
amusements out there? These ques-
lions, and many more like them,. are
asked so many times over and over, /
| will endeavor to put few answers IN
print so those DESTROYS of information
| can have it. In presenting Dakota as
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