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Dakota and tlie East.videstin i raA few weeks since the Fargo Republican ^ sent liou. W. C. Plummer arid Mr. J. E.packlt;Hall on atrip to eastern states to deliver a ,grayIt ilowing is from Mr. Plummer’s lecture in 1 0rfi vnumber of lectures on Dakota. The fedBradford, Pa., as reported in the Bradford ]10^eE ra:We have a six months’ summer and theLakeof $same number of months winter. Some . j ^ people ask, “What about the blizzards?” j ^ I can truthfully say that I have been therea little over a year and have vet failed to Cnsee a blizzard. It is true thev have compstorms, severe ones, too. Men will come Januto Dakota when we have floods andstorms, the same as in the east.My advice is to come to Dakota in thespring. North Dakota has 78,000 squaremiles, millions el acres open for settlers,and government lands enough lying openfor men to come there and develop them.When newspapers tell of the garden, people sneer at them. Norwegians are arriving daily by the hundreds, after three tofive years on ICO acres they return east inpalace cars and visit their homes in Norway with an independent competence.This heritage is there and you can securefor a small sum of money a homesteadfor yourself and family. Men grumbleat the government regarding this land,yet any man or woman over 81 years ofage can go there and get 160 acres ot landand improve it. You are safer there, myfellow citizens, without a dollar in yourpocket than here in Bradford. If you donot possess enterprise or get-up-and-getyou had better stay here, and I wouldsuggest that you or ter a six foot hole dugat once. All railroad lands are inmarket. An offer was made to certainEastern capaliata not long since to buy some of this precious land, but it was rejected, and the 3,000,000 acres w'ere sold toan English syndicate. There is no partof this world that affords better protectionthan investment in Dakota lands. Allproperty is continually rising and capitalists are not afraid to loan, money on thisland. Senator Beck objects to Dakota being admitted to the Union, claiming thatour exemption laws are so irrational andwithout reason. It gives a man who maylose money protection from the cupidityof his creditors in the cast, and I claimfor the honest man who has enterprisethat this is just.Dakota has built up in five years morecaptihordeone 1jonersCoTnmemthe :nity,favorrateThePeorlutiowhatAnlinqi call lt;Reed Int Terri No! of ad In IHrmrNoh as flprayl estat and teigUtA. M termA. IH urn lnklt;whetpearsliouFechurches, public building, Ac, than has : Athe state of Missouri.Goaai try one of Wheeler’s own branThe Pioneer Cicak
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Dakota Daily Leader
Huron, South Dakota, US
Fri, Feb 23, 1883
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