The Portland daily press., 1891-09-17

Rock" There has been from the birth OF time
among these Indians legend that, so long as
this rock remained above the water so long would
the Indians retain the land, but that when it
should sink beneath the waves the white man
would possess it and hold sway" Strange as 1t
may seem, this rock has been gradually sinking
for the past ten years, and now as this reServa-
ton Is beng opened up by settlers and the In
dians, title Is being extlnguished this rock has
sunk beneath the water.
"Sing, o, Song of Hiawatha,
Oh the happy days that followed
In The land of the Dakotas,
IN tne pleasant land anG peaceful,
Sing the mysteries of Mondamin,
Sing the blessings of the cornfeld.
Buried Is the bloody hatred,
Buried Is the dreaded war club,
And the war cry Is forgotten.
There is peace among the nations"
These are the waters of which Longfelow
wrote, Mrs. Sigourney poeized and Nilsson sung
her sweetest song:
Fascinating Lake of the heavens,
Waves of the setting sun,
Springs from an internal ocean
Whittier goyou and from whence did yon come"
Lake and country of poet and poetess, singer
and soDgstress soon to be valley fit for gods.
On the shores OF Kampeska
City is Arising ns BY Magic.
Twelve years ago not white man within 125
miles of Kampeska; to-day, In rich and prosper
GUS agricultural valley Of the richest land in the
West, and on the shores Of this lake is Water
town, city of 6000 inhabitants, and better
built city than have ever seen in the East OF
three miles its size.
As manufacturing city WATERFOWL is destined
years. 1t Is in the centre of the richest farming
country OF the West, country which has made
thousands OF farmers wealthy In one year.
A Professor OF the State University, writing to
Detroit paper short time ago, said: 81 am
standing on the porch of the house of an old
friend who left Michigan five years ago for Water
town, 5. ID. He arrived in this country with
team of horses, six children, and less than SOD
In money. To-day he owns 1900 acres Of the
richest and most beautiful land mans eyes ever
rested upon. He doesn't owe dollar his land
is worth $50 to $40 per acre. he has in his
granary 5000 bushels of last years wheat will
harvest this year IL, OOO bushels more and his
fields are covered with the finest stock. rom
where L am sitting can see half dozen other
farmers as prosperous as he. In this country the
farmer Is monarch, the t0iler of the SOIL is king"
Recently syndicate was formed composed
mostly OF eastern men Though several prominent
western men are interested in it, called 1.-THE
Watertown Land and Improvement Company"
Its offices are in this ctv. and in the Equitable
building, Boston, Mass. This Company purchased
In June last nearly half of the city Of Watertown
and several thousand acres adjoining land, and
control the shores of Lake Kampeska and Lake
Pelican.
Tnis company offers every inducement to man
ufacturers TO come to what promises to be a
second Chicago. Five railroads are said to be in
the deal Several of the car shops are coming
here and nearly dozen factories have been
Books, maps and charts of WATERFOWL and the
Sioux valley are furnished upon application at
the Company's office 10 Boston. They have al
in this richest of all lands Their plan is to make
WATERFOWL, at the earliest possible day, city
second to none in the Northwest
But 1t must not be forgotten that WATERFOWL
Is already city OF the finest buildings in the
State city OF great wealth and prosperity, city
motor lines, lighted by gas and electric lights a
city OF beautiful residences churches, streets
parks. avenues and drives. magnificent school
buildings, hotels and mercantile houses.
banquet was given on the 18th of last June
to delegation OF New England gentlemen by
Jne cTzsns o. Masers9y IN and the address Of
Governor OF South Dakota. The Governors
speech was replied TO by one of the party, who
Present and future" The following extracts
from his speech will give the reader an idea Of
the
Wealth of this New World.
Soy. Mellette, Ladies and Gentlemen. Il
myself when say that we are glad to meet in
hannv splendid DsK0tas so many prosperous and
Think for moment what you have: South
Dakota, geographically speaking, is an empire
herself her head in the Rockies, jeweled and be-
valley OF the sioux, adorned with summer
haryeSts and fragrant with prairie roses. South
Dakota IS country capable of producing from
her soil everything necessary for the comfort and
blessing Of human life. Twelve years ago pop
ulation of 30, 900 inhabitants, and most of these
tenting on the plains, to-day population of 450-
homes, surrounded by plenty, happy, contented
and growing rich. Thirteen years ago not a white
man within l25 miles Of where stand; to-day
beautiful city, rising, as by magic, from the lap
OF your lakes, and from your virgin and Verdant
soil. Think Of 1t, the infant state of America
yielding $4,000, 900 bushels in wheat, 10, OOO, 900
bushels OF oats. 1000, 900 bushels of barley, g.
00o, 900 bushels of faxseed, 20, 00O, 600 bushels
OF corn, 100000 bushels of potatoes, lesser
vegetables IN proportion. 100000 pounds OF
wool, 5000, 600 heads Of horses, cattle, sheep
and hogs. The indications now are that your
harvests this year will be double what they have
ever been. The picture is nothing less than a
transformation scene, yesterday a wild prairie
roamed over by the Indian and the coyote, to-
day rich and prosperous field, inhabited by the
best civilization of the western world.
"You have great system of railways, and to
reproduce them would cost upward of $2iO,000,-
600: You are connected directly by your rail-
roads, with Duluth on the north, Minneapolis and
st. Paul on the east, Chicago southeast, Omaha
south, the sheep prairies of Wyoming southwest,
Bismarck, the Northern Pacific, with its tribu-
taries northwest, and the Black Hills, the centre
OF American tin and the. centre Of many of the
largest gold and silver mines in the country, in
the west so peculiar is your railroad COM
eastern states and Europe as CHEAP as they can
be shipped from Minneapolis though YOU are
226 miles west OF Minneapolis When such great
railroad corporations as the Chicago and North
western, the Rock Island, the MINNEAPOLIS,
Manitoba & Northern, kings Of travel and trade,
pounce down upon your town, 1t means that you
have something worth having; 1t means that you
are to have city which will
Direct the trade of the Northwest,
city of mills and factories sufficient to take care
OF your grain and fibre-woolen mills for your
wool, linen mills for your FAX, strawboard mills
for the million tons OF straw you annually waste
shoe factories for your hides, starch factories for
your potatoes, sugar mills for your beets; it
means mills to manufacture the product you grow
as you grow them, instead of freiehting them
1000 miles east to be manufactured and then
shipping the manufactured goods back to YOU
"Wny should not WATERFOWL become a great
alt aNAN Chn
sands to visit your city every summer and
autumn your lakes. your fields and landscapes
thousands more. Statistics show that where the
death rate throughout the United States Is 100
the death rate in South Dakota is but &c. No.
pestilence or scourge has ever visited your fair
shores, nor has malaria, the curse OF so many
western and southern states ever by its poison
Gus breath, affected one of your homes a country
OF In its brain, health In its bosom, and
energy at Its feet. In word, South Dakota is
t tae most healthy northern climate on TINS con-
The boom has struck the city; people are ar
irving on every train from all sections OF the
world; work Is progressing OF every nature, and
mere and there streets and parks are being made.
Understand
An Excursion
VIII leave Boston, Sept. 20. for this city. under
VIII be great Opportunity for New EDglanders
~ WISH THIS land Of wealth and beauty, 0, goi1en
S sun ana Indian summers-tne most Deautiul
svuniy ~ tne great Northwest. o,ooooo
$50 South Dakota will send upwards OF 100000
QUO OF produce this wear.
MY MhIe writing from the observatory on Capltal
HUI, see five trains departing and four arriving;
see thousands of stacks of grain In all directions
ana long lines OF wagons over nine roa1S, naullng
the products of the season; hear the sports
mans gun as he pursues the trail OF the wild
chlcken; the motor cars are filled with excur-
Sionlsts, picnicking on the shores Of the lake; l
can see for 40 miles in every direction ana as iar
as the eye can reach is great harvest OF wealth.
r, Inc nnest hotel in the State Is the Arcade
Mlolel the finest business block tne GranIe DiocK:
WATERFOWL.
a, There are more pretty women In Watertown
onan nave ever seen in any town OF us size,
except ekp PaIis, Ky. 1t is a city OF scnooiS ana
churches, and educational attainments rank nigh.
-Boston Herald
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