Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-03-07
"oNE MORE WARNING.

The Minneapolis Tribune, under the
above caption, gives utterance to the
following array of incontrovertible facts /:
The admission of the two Dakotas
into the Union ought if nothing else to
check the senseless immigration from the
east to the Pacific coast. OF course it is
human nature, once started upon jour
ney, to go as far as possible, and it has
been quite natural and fashionable to
pass by magnificent Dakota and push
onward in the vain hope of finding
something better. In the hope of prof
iting by the longer haul the railroads
have inordinately doomed the Pacific
coast, and unscrupulous spectators have
lied about the glorious land of miners
gamblers and cinnamon. Hundreds of
thousands of people have spent half or
all of their fortune in pushing through
to the coast only to find that it takes
something beside the so-called glorious
climate and sage brush land that will
not raise beans without expensive and
oftentimes impossible irrigation, to make
them happy. There is not an acre Of
$40 land in Dakota that will not, if
carefully titled, produce better returns
for the investment than any $75 land in
California. IT the thousands upon
thousands of feeced and discouraged
oilers that now swarm on the coast will
return and take up homes in either of
the two Dakotas and go resolutely to
work they will have reason to thank the
Tribune for this advice before the expir-
alton Of five years. A picture of the
true state of the Pacific coast can be
CLEANED from Los Angeles special to
the Chicago Tribune. 1t states that in
that city over 5000 willing workers
were at present idle with no possible
show of getting work. A labor bureau
has been formed with the double object
of getting employment for the unem-
ployed and advertise their condition SO
no more fasteners will turn their steps
thitherwards. California is overcrowded
with laborers with no work in sight for at
least two or three months yet. = = y:
Thousands Of well-to-do people must and
will leave the east every year in order TO
better their condition and rear new homes
in the west. 1t is not going to take
very long for them to find out that
Minnesota, the Dakotas and Montana
can each offer them better homes, better
schools, and better incomes from the
capital and labor invested than all the
Pacific coast states combined. A resist
less tide of immigration will soon pour
in upon the new states.
More sensible words than the above
are seldom seen. II has been patent
fact for years that the climate, conditions
and surrounding Of the Pacific coast
were largely oyerdrawn and overestimat-
ed. The majority of humankind are like
sheep. If one goes over q wall the bal
ance follow. In the matter of inmigra-
ton men are like cattle on the range.
If one starts off on rampage the whole
herd will stampede. A few years ago
the cry was aCalifornia," and immediate
~ the trails and railroads were packed
with travellers. As usual the thing was
overdone, and now this immense number
of idlers is the result,
Twelve or thirteen years ago thousands
of people thronged into Deadwood gulch
in their insane search for gold, Nothing
but gold was thought of. Yet these
same men walked over ground enor-
mously rich in tin-stone and never saw
it. In very short time this tin viii be
the more valuable commodity of the two.
The same comparison holds good be-
tween Dakota and California. The
richest, grandest sland ever spread out
beneath the sky by the Almighty was
raced over by those most foolish people
SO eager to reach California. Those old
time placer miners Of the Black Hills
got the gold they came after. But what
did It amount to? Those 5000 idlers
are in Los angeles. What good does it
do them?
The Tribune well says that these new