Sacramento daily record-union. [volume] (Sacramento [Calif.]) 1875-1891, 1889-02-09
DAKOTA B. LIZARDS.
WHAT AN ARMOUR PAPER HAS To
SAY REGARDING THEN.
1t Denies that the Soil is Poor, the
Climate Unpleasant, or that
Winds Ever Blow There.

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Climate Unpleasant, or that
Winds Ever Blow There.
The South Dakota Tribune is the name of
a small weekly paper published in the
town of Armour, in South Dakota. In a
recent issue it contained the following arti-
Gle under the suggestive heading, Dakota
Won't Miss Him.
Every country and cline under the sun
has a certain class of floating population
who are famous-not for good deeds, credit
| 10 society, or for any accomplishment to in
crease happiness on this earthly sphere-as
kickers.' Sour-visaged and sepulchral.
their lie Is living disappointment TO
| themselves and all who may come in con-
| tact with them. They seldom linger in one
locality but few years, bat roam from
| place 10 place, with piteous tales of the dis
advantages OF their former location. As a
sample OF the imbecility of this deplorable
class OF cllizens, we reprint the following,
from the Sacramento. Cal, DAILY RECORD
| UNION, of the 9th inst:
"Some three weeks ago there alighted from
the train in this city man by the name of H
A. Brown. He hailed from Armour. in the
southern portion OF Dakota. He had heard
wonderful stories Of Calitornia's climate bound
less resources and incompatible productions
! but he had taken no stock in what he had SUD-
| posed to be the Yerlest fiction. Some six wears
| ago he LEFT the Genesee valley, in the central
| part OF New York, and following Horace Gree
! ley's advice he brought up in soul ern Dakota
/ He has tried farming in that section to his
| hearts content. He says that the wheat raised
| there is about what we term chicken feed here ::
! that five bushels to the acre is an average crop
and ten bushels is big crop. The mercury in
| the thermometer tries to climb out at the top in
warm weather and goes down almost out of
! sight in the winter time. He has seen it stand
at 1869 in the shade il the summer time and SOC
below zero was considered only little chilly
IN the winter time The wells ON his place
have frequently frozen and one tune for three
Gays all the water he could get was by melting
snow. and his stock came near perishing His
description OF hail storm that drove the crops
IN the fields into the earth, so that nothing re-
mained upon the surface after the storm passed
would make one shudder, and his description
OF blizzard would almost make the hair of
Californian stand on end. Hundreds of lives
were lost. barns and residences wrecked ana
whole bands of live stock destroyed,
The Tribune defies anyone 10 point to an
item OF truth in the above description.
South Dakota has an occasional misfor-
tune What country has not? Railroad
accidents, panics, earthquakes, cyclones
and pestilential disease scatter destruction
to life aud property everywhere. The eli
mate OF South Dakota compares favorably
with any State in America. The entire
article is too absurd and ridiculous for any
sane person 10 regard as the truth, but we
wish to submit few facts in defense of as
fair country as lies under the canopy of
heaven Since the first Of last September
the maj kets of Armour have paid out over
S350,00O Tor grain and live stock to the
farmers in this vicinity. Two hundred
and eighty-six cars OF grain, representing
over $40, coo, have been shipped from this
market, not mentioning the large amount
yet in the warehouses. One hundred and
sixty-oue cars of vheat-chicken -feed-
! representing $4,000 has gone from Armour
to help supply the world with the staff of
life. Farmers tell us that nearly -one-half
OF last years crop is vet TO be marketed.
Let 1t be remembered that Armour controls
only small portion of the grain raised in
South Dakota. For a country that has
been settled only five or six years this is
not bad showing. Armour is in the same
latitude as q large portion of the United
States. The winters are no more severe
than in the city Of Chicago Either Mr..
Brown has fallen into the clutches of a
very interruptions newspaper man, or
handles facts in very careless manner
South DAKOTA has no use for pessimist."
Mr.. Brown came to this city the second
week in December, bought ranch near
W
He arrived in this city with his wife and
little ones on Monday of this week, and is
now happily located on farm where all
the rigors of Dakota climate are total
| strangers, where the wheat produces twenty
bushels TO the acre-large, plump kernels
where fruit of all kinds, from the golden
orange to the winter apple, grow in abuud-
ance, where the vine creeps through the
branches OF the fig tree and the olive at
tains more luxuriant growth than it does
in Spain. where the sun shines every day
in the year and winter and autumn are lost
in perpetual spring and summer.
Mr.. Brown called at this Office on his arrival
and left the copy Of the paper from which
the above quotation was taken. He was set
upon Immediately on his return to Armour
By the real estate men, land sharks and boom
editors Of irresponsible sheets. "The inter-
view with me which you published on the
9th Of January is true in every particular.
When its denial vas published in the ar
mour paper, called in the Inost prominent
citizens of the town to bear witness to the
truthfulness of my statement ! had been
very careful no. 10 tell you the worst, and
if had, you could not have described it,
for no one who has not passed through
blizzard-who has not witbstood the rigors
Of the climate of South pakota-can have
any conception of its severity, of its de-
| struction of property, of the deaths it &C.
casions, and of the misery Il entails You
who reside in California have no idea what
suffering the poor of Dakota endure Now,
the following gentlemen have signed this
document, which wish you would pub
| lish :"
To The Editors Of lie Sacramento RECORD. UNI.N:
We have read carefully Mr. BIown's statement
| as published il your paper, regarding the quail
| ity and quantity of wheat grown here, to the
| severity OF the weather TO the extremes in heat
| and cold, billiards and hailstorms, and can
attest to IFS entire truthfnlness
Signed by Samuel Rhode, Chris Bowen, lie
| Meede, George II. Post James McFeetery, a. q.
/ CLANCY. J. q. Spaur, William Crago, Wesley
Crago. C. Flolote, Paul Hilker, <. C. jenkins, g
Durham. L. B. Greene, p. D. Burton, W. F.
Richardson, A. H. Hitchcock S. S. Lisk W. D.
| Clement, Z. J. Ellison.
Mr.. Brown brought a sample OF Dakota
| wheat to verify his statement, and it
is now on exhibition at this Office along
side OF a sample of California wheat
| The Dakota article is very dark, hard
and shr;yeled. The California is light
colored, plump, and one kernel is as
large as three of that grown at Armour.
The package is done up and Endorsed as
| follows: = This is about the average OF the
! wheat sold in this market W. G. Grant,
| buyer The South Dakota Tribune in its
last issue contained the following note:
We regret TO learn that numb-r of
| Douglas county citizens have signed an arti-
Gle to he taken to California by H. A.
Brown for publication, testifying that his
remarks lately published in this paper were
correct"
Mistress" What ON earth are you 60
inc to d. With thar scuftie fnI ne dirt