St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-07-14
VALLEY OF THE BIG MUDDY
Has the Brightest Outlook in Its History
for ALI Its Productions.
AFFECTED BY WALL STREET
It Has Cheap Fuel and Good Markets
For ALI It's Varied
Crops.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
MANDAN, OAK, July 13.-Never in
the history of Dakota has the outlook
for the Missouri slope in North Dakota
and the west Missouri country been so
good as it is this year. The inhabitants
of the region tributary to Mandan and
Bismarck have the advantage of cheap
fuel. which they have not been slow to
announce to the world at large, but I'M
fortunately they have had succession
of crops that were not the heaviest, and
there has been corresponding decline
in spirits. But the spirits of our farm
erS and business men are in the as
tendency, and many of the good things
that have been predicted in the imme-
date past are coming to pass. Since
the unfortunate Wednesday on which
Grant q Ward failed-May IA, 1854
there has been lack of the great mate
rial progress in the territory, which
was common before that date. Special
reasons in certain localities have pre-
vented retrOgreSSiOn to any great eX-
tent, but it is admitted by business men
generally that there has never since
that date been anything like the mate
rial prOgreSS-the easy business feeling
that existed prior to that date. Not that
the failure of
THE WALL. STREET FIRM
was the cause of the trouble in Dakota.
but that failure was closely related to
causes and effects which were seriously
felt here. A lull in the enormous
wheat yields which drove people Da-
kOta-craZy in 1SS1-2-3 has had a good
deal to do with turning the attention of
Immigrants to the far West and to the
unoccupied lands of Texas and other
Southwestern localities. But predic-
ton is safe that there is better future
ahead. There is no known method of
putting governors onto trade and MAX
ing it go with the same regularity one
year that it does another nothwith-
standing what the pressure may be, as
can be done with a steam engine.
There are sure to be leaps and bounds
to business. But the outlook points
Enthusiastically to the conclusion that the
leaps and bounds are coming this way.
The upward tendency is being accel-
Grated in this part of Dakota by PROM
ises, undimmed by the slightest hint of a
setback, of enormous crops. The
country is in such condition now that a
crop can be taken care of in way that
could not be five years ago in this vicin-
ity. FIGURING mills have been started
that are envious of each other to secure
the wheat that the farmer has to offer.
There will be an excellent market for
all that farmer can raise. Such crop
as we are about to secure will be fol-
lowed necessarily, by
LARGE INFLUX OF SETTLERS.
The West Missouri country, the only
section of the territory that possesses
an unlimited amount of coal for the farm
ers' use, will get its full share of the
new settlers. The farm of every farmer
will be enhanced in value by the addi-
ton to the counties of newcomers. The
more farmers come the more Touring
mills will be started; the more cream
cries, ano the establishment of a starch
factory to utilize the enormous crops of
potatoes that can he grown, will be pos
sible because it will be paying bust
ness venture. With the new railroads
that are at work on preliminary sur
veys; with the coming great crop; with
the new settlers that are confidently
looked for. there is the best reason to
believe that Dakota will come to the
front rank with greater strides during
the next five years than she has during
the past ten.