The Manchester journal. [volume] (Manchester, Vt.) 1861-current, 1889-03-07

4, Tue action OF the conferrees on tue oml
. ni North Dakota, Sonth Dakota, Montnn
], sui Washingto during the present year I
the Union ot States. under the provision
Of tAa bill. as agreed 10, the people 1
sauta Dako,a viii vote May IA upon th
s.iaplion oi the Sioux Falls Constitution
AMI tir the location oi their Capital, Will
!, the same day the people OF Mouth Dakota
Moutana and Washington will vote for tia
/. election oi State officers and delegates 10
I constitutional convention, the Consiitu
!, tions u be adopted by the people the tirs
Tuesday ia October next When susl
Constitutions are adopted and after Tia
Presidential proclamation they will be ud
mittei 10 time TO have their Senators nnt
congressman take their seats IN the fits
regular session OF the Fifty first Coogres,
in December next The approval Of th,
, bill will b. one Of the last acts of President
Cleveland. ani President Harrison vii
baye the pleasant duty of issuing the pro
! clsmation as the grateful supplement to
his own efforts, while the Chairmap of the
Senate committee on Territories, in behalf
, OF Dakotas admission.
The area OF the four new states is enor
nous. 1t embraces total OF 344, 1866 square
miles An area rs great as that OF the thir
teen original states with Vermont aud West
Virginia added. But in this connection il
must not be forgotten that large proper
tion Of this is bad land, and the question
what irrigation can do for it remains to be
solved. According to the annual report OF
Gov. Church the present population of
Dakota is GAO 1923. an increase of 635, 900
since 1860 BY the time the national cen
sus OF 1890 is completed the two Dakota
probably will have between 650,000 and
675, 600 people OF whom South Dakota will
have over 5000 and North Dakota 250-
900. Montana will have about 2l5, 900 aud
Washington about the same, so that the
four new states will start off with round
million and quarter Of people. This will
give South Dakota two Representatives
and fraction over, North Dakota one, and
the other two states one each, on the ap
portionment of 200, 600 as the basis of rep.
resentation, and there is little doubt that
they will send solid Republican delega
tion to Congress. The Republican plural
ity 10 Dakota at the last election was 81,
056. in Montana 4,97S, and in Washington n
1871; The Territorial Legislature OF Da
kota on joint ballot stands 81 Republicans
8 Democrats and Prohibitionists, of Mon.
tans, 27 Republicans and Democrats; aud
OF Washington, 80 Republicans and Dem
ocrats
In all the elements Of progress and pros
perity the Dakotas easily lead the new
states In length Dakota equals the dis
tance from New York City to Cleveland,
aud in width the distance from Philadel-
phia to Raleigh. She has two mighty
navigable rivers. the Missouri and Red
river of the north, with many smaller
streams and lakes. and when surface water
is lacking its place is supplied by artesian
wells, OF which over 100 are now in operl
tion. She has q fertile soil and ha.
achieved worldwide reputation for her
great wheat fields, Her mean annual TEN
perature is 459, or about that OF Northern
Illinois aud southern Michigan, which goes
to Offset the evil reputation she has secur.
ed as the home Of the blizzard She has {
immense mineral deposits which, uoder the
new methods OF treating refractory ores.
promise rich rewards, and experts believe
her stores OF tin are inexhabsiible, There I
is an ample abundance Of coal, but, as |
recent writer in Harper's Magazine has
shown, tho ereei u railroads in iiSing - 6
,essve transportation charges las prev, l
led any general use OF the native fu, {
hough ia the vicinity Of the mines il SELF, .
IS low as from 80 ceais to 81 per ton. Mi q
"a. gypsum, fires aud potters' clay, and c
granite also abound and are utilized for i
,om mercIsl purposes In 81 Dakota rails 4
"a 62 800. 499 bushels Of wheat, 43, 2G7 ATS G
bushels Of oats, 1910, ,944 bushels Of fax, n
J. 400, SIS bushels OF barley, 3l6 $50 bush y
,ls OF rye, 81 ,230 bushels Of bnckwheat. p
md i,5ll, T:,O bushels Of corn although G
t has been supposed that corn could not q
be grown there successfully In SO the b
'alue Of her live stock was nearly Si5 600, b
700 She has fifty cresmeries and Fix p
heessTfactores. Her large cities BIS 2
narck, Sioux Falls, Fargo. Rapid Ci} y
irand Forks, Huron, aud Aberdeen ~, Il
ncreasipg rapidly 10 all the elements OF al
ounicipal prosperity. We might go "a 81
I'd multiply statistics, bat tbese are snf b
cient 10 show the magnificent resources e
( the Territory which Democratic malcs y,
as kept ont Of the Union Of staiss 20 II
eng.
The trll sl- te rsa- 70 ain b, Wto
~ The uest e~aeas aili shos th.f u
as nearly l20. coo peoris. sud tbe popnln A.
on i. Increasing Al tbe ia.r Of abuut I5 .
JO ayesr. Probably she sill be ready 1 ii
ONE 10 rs soon as Congress il ready b. ID
are her Noae II The Other Tsrl.aric. ~
ill bs reaif isr long iiae Arz,ns sd
iahn are drsri VI ~ ,he buAb,f n p w
T. ssI \ JrKr s.a ut. lavsa4s
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