The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1889-09-27
A Good ana ls..rly suggestion.

thing to advertise themselves. The most
effective advertising ever done for North
Dakota was done by j. B. Power when he
was land commissioner of the Northern
Pacific railroad. 1t was the fair Oh wheels
that he took all over the east and into
CANADA. The tour of that car was simply
triumphant. Everybody went to see the
Northern Pacific exhibit and the favorable
results were manifest for years afterward.
states of North and South Dakota, and
next fall several cars fitted up and sent
east during the fair season. Il will not be
very expensive, and tho whole country
would see and read about the tram from
the Dakotas. The first state legislatures
might mako o hit in taking up this sug-
gestion.
Two Land Districts for the Reservation.
By an act of congress approved March
3. 1881, there were made two land districts
of the Sioux reservation recently coded by
the Indians. 1t may not be- generally
known that this act will go into effect as
soon as the president proclaims the coded
lands open for settlement, but such is the
case. There will then be two LAND Offices
established and officers appointed. The
act which provides for the districts in the
Sioux reservation created the Devils lake
land district in North Dakota. The divid.
ing line between the two reservation dis.
tricts Is the second standard parallel,
which is the moth line of Buffalo, Jerauld,
Sanborn, Miner, Lake and Moody coun.
ties in South Dakota. The south district
is described as follows:
Commencing at Q point where the Missouri
thenoe up and along the river to the most
westerly point where the river crosses the lame
parallel; thence vest on the parallel to the
west along the south fork to the 26th deg. OF
longitude west; thence to the south boundary
Of Dakota; thence east along the boundary to
Of beginning.
The north district is thus described:
.Commsnsing ct apoint most westerly whore
b Missouri river intersects the second stand
ard parallel. northerly elong che river 20 the
s assn as sssa ass' Of RlorsIils.i G; sh. sn sh sopp: sss. " sb t.
north fork Of the Cheyenne river; thsnce east
and south along ths river 70 It. mouth; thence
river toa point where b second standard psr.
allel produced would interseot tho river
thence east to thu Missouri river to the place Of
beginning.
This last-named district does not in.
clude all the coded lands in South Dakota,
There is yet Q strip twelve miles WIDE be-
tween the fifth and seventh parallels that
10 not included in the new district. Prob.
ably congress will remedy this defect when
it passes upon the new treaty this winter.
Il has been generally supposed that the
division Of the districts provided for a
land Office both at Chamberlain and at
Pierre, and Dakotans in WashinRtoniwere
Of the opinion that the Offices would be 10.
Gated there. bat the act distinctly says the
land Offices must be located In the districts
Ct soma point d~esignated By the president.
can not be locased or officers appointed
until . treaty With the Indians 6ss Boon
fatt6sdby conersss. The clause apparent.
y 10 another argument on the side of con.
GreseionA action before the reservation
can b thrown open for settlement. An.
other reason Why the lands will mot b
epsasd until nsxt spring y . stassmsnt