St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1888-02-18
DAKOTA'S GREATNESS
A Sketch of Some of the Out
lying Features Seen by
an Observer.
characteristics Of Each of the
Leading Divisions Of the
Territory.
Climate SalubriOuS and En-
jOyable in Spite of a Rather
Wintry Winter.
Or eat Men One of the Chief
Crops, With Several Not
able Specimens.
Special Correspondence of the Globe.

CHAMBERLAIN. OAK EeD. l6.-Ne w
York is the Empire state. Pennsyl-
vania the Keystone state, Texas the
Lone Star state. These names are all
significant of the great states to which
they are applied, and everyone is as IA
miliar with these titles as with their
real names. What name will best de-
fine the greatness of Dakota, when, as
one grand state, she will occupy the
throne of the Northwest?
DAKOTA'S GREATNESS
is not measured by her width and length
alone. Not by the rapidity with which,
as territory, she has been settled and
developed, until she now stands head
and shoulders above all the other terri
tories. A few short years ago, the
name of Dakota was suggestive of hard
times and graSShOpperS, and almost
every day, the sail of prairie schooner
could be seen along the distant horizon,
as it passed through Iowa or Minnesota
bound for some Eastern state. But all
this has passed away, and instead of the
people leaving the territory by the slow
process of creeping oxen, they are run
| ming by train loads, with farming i'm
plementS, household goods and deter
minatiOn to make home for the future
No state in the Union can boast of a
greater diversity of soil and products
than Dakota.
THE NORTHERN PART
of the territOry-let US drop the terms
joyed the fame of the splendid wheat she
raises, of the magnificent farms that dot
her broad prairieS and the vigOr and push
of her citizens. That fame is justly
hers and she has honestly earned it.
Nothing can take it from her, and
throughout the future the same causes
that have brought her present great
ness will continue to increase them.
THE CENTRAL AND SOUTHERN
parts are similar in many respects to
the northern part. While the wheat
may not be of so fine a quality, there is
generally a sufficient quantity for all
purposes, while corn, oats, rye and bar
ley yield abundant crops. The farmers
turning their attention to another i'm
portant feature, and that is the
raising of hogs and cattle. Sioux
City is now the market for those
products, and the access to that
market being easy, both by rail and
river, the future will witness an i'm
menSe traffic in that line. The June
market Will afford farmers a chance to
turn off the summer supply of hogs and
cattle, and many dollar Will be trans
ferred to the pockets of Dakota farmers
and from them into other channels of
trade. There is certainly as bright
prospect for the Dakota farmer as one
would wish to see.
THEN THE BLACK HILLS.
There is the most wonderful portion
of Dakota. Her silver and gold, her tin,
coal and timber are her source of wealth
and it is in that direction that Dakota
must look for her fuel supply.
The fuel supply is the most i'm
portant feature of this country,
and one which tells with greater effect
on the pocketbook than any other. Coal
is ruinOusly high, and when the day az
rives when the Hills shall send its
bOuntiful supplies broadcast, 1t will be
hailed with joy. The Black Hills has
formerly existed as world of its own.
An empire, as it were, cut off from the
balance of the world, and only access
sible by long stage route across that
most formidable of all obstacles to Da-
kota'S prOgreSS-the Sioux reservation.
One road has passed around it, and the
shrek of the iron horse is now heard
reverberatlng among her SnOwclad hills
and along fertile valleys. Others are
pointing in that direction, and ere many
years have elapsed the Hills will fairly
ring with the arrival and departure of
many trains. Look at
THE MANY ABLE MEN
whose homes and interests are there.
Gideon G. Moody, the eminent judge,
the profound lawyer, the able states
imprint of his genius for future gener-
ations to admire. Steele and McLaugh-
lin, able attorneys, ornament and give
brilliancy to an otherwise distinguished
bar. Others, whose names are not so
familiar, but whose abilities are ac-
knOwledged, are helping to build up the
Hills and place her in that position
which she will naturally and inevitably
assume in the no distant future.
While the winters of Dakota are cold,
they are no more than those of Iowa,
Minnesota, and other Northern and
Western states. But the balance of the
Sprlngtime i'll Dakota presents picture
that would
DRIVE AN ARTIST MAD
with envy, Even the Gumbo hills,
which appear occasionally along the
river, are bedecked in springtime with
lilies, that for beauty and fragrance cam
not be eXcelled. When summer comes.
the golden grain, Swaying beneath the
gentle breezeS and rolling in gentle I'M
dulating pillows, presents sight worth
crossing the continent to behold. And
then the autumn! The golden days of
September, dreamy, delicious, intOXi-
eating, while October and November
linger
LONG AND LOVINGLY
in the lap of summer, and reluctantly
give way to the coming winter. This is
not Overdrawn, but is fair and candid
statement of the seasons as witnessed
In Dakota for over six years past. That
billiards. do occur must be admitted,
and that they will occur all must be-
lieve-still, with the proper precautions
in the summer and fall, sheds and sta
bles can be erected that would afford
ample shelter for stock, so that the loss
would be reduced to minimum. Stock
must be protected in Dakota, and the
days when they could exist OH the open
prairies as ''ruStlerS" are past and gone.
There is a
GREAT REVOLUTION
in public opinion in regard to the divis-
ion and admission of Dakota. Since
the Aberdeen convention was held, and
the fact-which has before been latent
that great many Republicans were
opposed to division, the friends of adj
mission as whole are getting more
numerous every day. Democrats speak
out more boldly, and are united in the
belief that Dakota should come in as
one state, and also, that it is not neces-
cary that che chOuld no admitted lafora