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Excerpt from Richard County: Its Geographical Boundaries, Township Organizations, Soil, Improved and Unimproved Lands, Early Settlers, Leading Farmers, Bonanza Farms, County Officers, City and Town Officers, Professions, Business Firms, Mechanical Industries, Schools, Churches, Benev
Of course, there are, as we have stated before, some objections to some things here; but as a whole she is the most deserving and attractive queen of all the territories, and offers superior advantages to all who may desire to settle within her borders. To give a con cise statement of what Dakota is and has accomplished we append the following statements, so intelligently arranged in the Argus, taken from the admirable report of Governor, Pierce, transmitted to the Interior Department at Washington. It is a grand and brilliant mirror into which the millions are invited to look, as it re?ects the astonishing facts and figures of the growth and development of our great northwestern territorial empire: By the inexorable logic of events the Great American Desert of Dakota - the aboriginal heaven of creation, as General Clark would ecall it, has been transformed into a garden and made to blossom like the rose; and the atlases that knew it of old now know it no more forever, for it has been completely expurgated from the maps. The history herein presented is such, perhaps, as no other territory in so short a period of time has ever made. The facts and the figures which are given are from the report of Governor Pierce, recently transmitted to the Department of the Interior at Washington. They are therein presented as a whole; but care has been taken in their presentation here to separate those of the north from the south, in view of the great importance that at the present time attaches to those two grand divisions of Dakota, north and south of the forty-sixth parallel - our Mason's and Dixon's line.
It cannot be denied that they tell a wonderful story of the pro gress and advancement of a portion of our country considered by so many but a few years ago as almost uninhabitable, at least for a white man, and that in respect to its agricultural resources it is without an equal.
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