Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1889-09-27
a Lards Dakota Farm that Pays.

farm in No th Dakota. 1t is named after
John Dwight heavy owner of the stock
of the company. A correspondent, treat
ing OF its tork for the present year, says:
The Dwig4, farm is big concern. The
area of thii farm is nearly sixty thousand
acres, but is not all contiguous, or all
i'll one equity. The farm proper is eight
miles mort invest from Wahpeton on the
Manitoba. 1t lies between the Manitoba
and ilno{branches Of the Northern Pa
elf. Thef are, however, two more farms
south and last. They are called ranches.
This Is thdhome place and here the prin-
cipal plant is found, and the features that
surprise he clodhopper from New York
and New England. The pay roll Of the
hands of Ehls farm for the month of Au-
gust amounted to $4,000. The largest
number Pf hands in harvest was us.
There hive been cut and threshed 1000
acres of wheat, and the yield in round
numbers is 10000 bushels. Besides this
there wefe over LOCO acres of oats and
barley. although this is not stock farm,
there are (seyeral hundred head of horned
stock, o3er two hundred head of horses,
several htndred head of sheep, and pigs by
the acre. Personal property and buildings
are probably worth $l50,0OO. There is
one itemIof 49,, 900 in horses. It requires
so plows to do the fall blowing. This
year the plowlng will be done two weeks
! earlier than usual. The crop is large, the
season is and has been favorable for the
entire work, and the result in single
phrase is: Farming does pay on a large
scale" The best days threshing was
1926 bushels of wheat. There are seven
steam threshers OF, the farm. The whole
country around this farm is one vast wheat
IL hot al oG oh Nd
county and south to the state line the
wheat crop is the pest in North Dakota.
There are frequent yields of thirty and
forty bushels to Tie acre, and whole Sec
lions that turn out twenty-five. This por-
ton of North Dakota is a surprise to the
visitor. It comes nearer his preconceived
notions of what wheat land should look
like than any other part of the state. 1t
meets his "greau expectations. ]. B..
Power, of northwestern Richland, however,
reports the largest yield on two acres :
ffty-four and sixty bushels. It is reliably
stated that thu Dwight farm has never lost
money. john Miller, manager, is one of
of the owners and consequently one of
the heaviest taxpayers in Richland county.
By an act of congress approved March
d, 1900. lut1c NS4C AtiAAC WV AuASA NAoeiASCo
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 proelaims the coded
lands open for settlement, but such is the
case. There will then be two lana 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 point where the Missouri
river crosses the second standard parallel,
thence up and along the river to the most
westerly point where the river crosses the same
parallel; thence west on the parallel to the
south fork of the Cheyenne river; thence south.
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
| the Missouri thence up the river to the place
| of beginning.
The north district is thus described:
Commencing al APPOINT most westerly where
! the Mis- ouri river intersects the second stand
| ard parallel, northerly along the river to the
fifth standard parallel; west on the parallel to
the 26th deg. of longitude; thence south to the
| UOTtu 10TH VI Uuo SuSS cAAA1o AlS0A soNos SNs'
| and south along the river to its mouth (; thence
up and along the south fork of the cheyenne
river to point whore the second standard par
allel produced would intersect the river
thence east to the 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 strip twelve miles wide be-
tween the fifth and seventh parallels that
Is not included in the new district. Prob
ably congress will remedy this defect when
it passes upon the new treaty this winter.
1t has been generally supposed that the
division of the districts provided for q
land Office both at Chamberlain and at
Pierre, and Dakotans in Washingtoniwere
of the opinion that the Offices would be To-
Gated there. but the act distinctly says me
land Offices must be located in the districts
at some point designated by the president.
The act further states that the land offices
can not be located or officers appointed
until treaty with the Indians has been
ratified by congress. The clause apparent
ly is another argument on the side OF con-
eressional action before the reservation
can be thrown open for settlement. An
other reason why Che lands WILL not pe
opened until next spring is statement
from the surveying office that surveys
could not be made this fall aid could not,
in fact, he made uutil next summer, ana