St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-04-14
A GREAT BOOM RISING
1t Will Not Be Based on Spec
ulatiOn and Unreal
Dreams,
But Solid and Substantial
Facts, and Will Come
to Stay.
Promise Of Big Crops and I'm
usual immigration This
Season.
The Reservation--The Politi-
cal Crop Coming to the
Front.

WAIEhIONN y. apIll Id ty all say
so and l guess it must be true, that Da-
kota is going to have a great boom this
year. They say that there is going to be
lively times in business and politics;
and that probably comes about as near
constituting full-fedged, Simon-pure
boom as anything can. First, business.
What are the indications for it? 1t
looks as though there would be big
crops. The ground has been plentifully
covered with snow and this has pre-
served and mOistened it, so that it will
be in excellent condition to work, and
plant and SOW. The farmers are in bet
ter condition than they ever were be-
fore. Last year, on the whole, was a
bountiful one. and many farmer was
lifted out of his chattel mortgages far
enough to enable him to look his neigh
bOrs square in the face and feel as
though he owned a little portion of the
earth at least. Many of the farmers of
Dakota found out last year for the first
time that they were
REALLY GETTING RICH.
They are becoming well fixed and
getting in good shape to carry on their
farming operations. Each year more of
the prairie land is being broken and
planted to seed. This season will i'm all
probability see the biggest crop that
Dakota ever saw, by one-fourth-One
feels safe in estimating it. AS the
farmer is prosperous, so is the whole
business of the country. Another
thing, the farmer is fast utilizing his
products to better advantage, so that a
crop of the same size as would be raised
few years ago is worth more money to
of oh oil
the grain out of the country, large
share of it is needed at home. A pro-
portion of it is put into stock, which
means more money for the Dakota
farmer. In short, things seem to be
coming the farmers way in Dakota!
There are indications, however, that
there will be a
LARGE IMMIGRATION
to Dakota this year-nOt only an immi-
grafton of people, but also of capital.
They are both needed and both well
come. A great many people will come
to Dakota this year, and most of them
Will bring little "mOney in their
jeans" Dakota would be glad to well
come all these people without their
money, but is much more glad to receive
them leash" and all. Money helps to
develop country much faster than
anything else. There is great deal of
capital coming to Dakota, too. The
East, it seems, almost of sudden, is be-
ginning to have great confidence in Da-
kota and her securities. They are be-
ginning to appreciate that money
planted in Dakota is not only safe, but
splendid investment as well.
Capital is satisfied with being
secure, but at a fair rate
of interest is more than satisfied
and with a chance of profitable invest
ment is tickled. 1t has a chance for the
last in Dakota. l am much struck with
the wisdom of the words of an old Da-
kOtian heard the other day. This man
has been in Dakota since almost the be-
ginning, being resident of nearly fif-
teen years. standing. He said: "All
that is necessary is for the East
TO HAVE CONFIDENCE
in us, and then they will trust us. All
cities and all institutions have started
in small way-that is, If they have
made a success. AS fast as they have
demonstrated that they were worthy of
confidence and knew how to do bust
ness, they have not lacked for capital.
The money of the East is a drug on the
market in comparison with its value to
man i'm this Western country, who
knows how to employ capital at
all prOfitably. Our manufactures
and jobbing houses must start in a
small way, and as fast as they show
that they are successful the capital will
be forthcoming to carry them on and sup
ply the framework upon which their
affairs are conducted. There is 10 use
i'm bewailing the lack of money in Da-
kota; it will come quite as fast as we
are deserving of it. We must not get
impatient. Dakota has been making a
good showing in the last few years, and
the business men of the East are begin
ming to give her trust" Much more
Eastern capital will come to Dakota this
year, giving life to all her enterprises
than ever before; and, it might be add
ed, on much more favorable terms. The
opening of the great Sioux Indian reser-
walton is going to attract much atten-
ton, too. Inside of six months, in all
probability, it will be thrown
OPEN TO SETTLERS
by proclamation, and there VIII be
great rush of people there. What effect
the great Eastern blizzard may have on
Dakota immigration is not easy to COM
pute. One thing is certain it will not
help or hinder immigration to New York
very much. There the restless tide of
humanity will ebb and flow about the
same, whether they had bad blizzard
in March or not. 1t will incline those
people down there to be more charitable
to Dakota at least. An old dOwn-easter
remarked the other day, THAT it took
just two months exactly for God to visit
His wrath on those people down in New
York. Our blizzard was OH the 10th of
January and theirs on the 10th of
March," 1t is needless to say that the
fact that they have billiards. in Dakota
will not deter anybody from coming
to Dakota. These billiards. are far
preferable to the
DEADLY MALARIA
of the South and the death traps that
await man wherever he may turn.
There is one thing about these billiards.,
they are great air purifiers. But Da-
kOta people can afford to be generous.
Here is where our success and prosper
ity lie. Let us be generous to a fault.
We can overlook these little shOrtcOm-
ings OF mankind and rest ourselves in
the assurance that we will not stOOp to
such petty affairs as slandering any
mans country. There is plenty of room
in Dakota; plenty of land to farm;
plenty of openings in all kinds of bust
ness; plenty of prosperity and happi-
plenty of comfort and happiness for
short, Dakota is next thing
TOA PARADISE.
With our open, free-handed sort of a
way, we welcome everybody to Dakota,
nOtwiths landing what might have been
Al -. ~.