Wants People To Come

To the Editor of The Recistkb : 8ir:- I have received many lettere from Waeh.enaw connty, inquiringabout Dakota. My father, J. P. Allen, and myself, came here from Ann Albor in the spring of 1883. Our business was Macksmithing while there. We eame here to get 'And, andtry farm ing, and are well satisfied so far. We have 480 acres of good land with 220 acres ander cultlvation. Crops have been good every season so far. We Kttled in Sargent county. Our nearest railroad town was Columbia, 40 miles from here. That was a long way to go to market with oxen. This was a very wild country at that time. There were but few Bettlers and much tcattered. The deer ind antelope had full sway, but there has been a iniraculous change. considering the short time. Now the couniry about nere is quite wen seiueo. We can now market our grain on four different railroads, and not go over ten miles. Our nearest market Is two miles. There is some government 'and here yet, and an immense quantlty of land ttaat can be bought for four or five dollars per acre, and the iinproveinents included. When tuis country first settled up, there were a grcat aiany young single men took up land, made the neceasary improvcments, lived on it six months, borrowed money from eostern loan companics to proye np wlth, and Uien got home sick, went back east, and let the loan companies have their land. The loan companies don't want the land. All üiey want is their Interest, and are oBering all this land for Bale. AU they ask is for a man to ake the land and assume what thcre is against it. They sell lt on three to five yeare' time at ten per cent. interest. You can eet the very best of land on those terms within three miles of market Any one coming here ought to come early. Tha lattcr part ot Man-h wuulil be the best time, and then they would bo in shapc to put in a erop this spring. This part of Dakotais well&upplied with water. We flnd an abundance of water of an exrellent quality at a depth of 16 fect. We have good schools. There are eleven Bchool'houses oow within a radiusof sti rolles of our place. We have Beven mouths' school in a year. This is a rood country to raisestock in. I have neighbors ho came from lowa and brought a few car loada of cattle with them. They hve gone into the stock business extensively. They claim their stock does inui'h better here than in lowa. Any one comino here now has a better chance then we had, for we have tnarkete here now, and you can go to f arming and inake money, whlle we had to rough it two or three years walting for market. To close w i tli I would say that this is the best country under the sim for a man of small jmans io secure a home. Yuurstruly. Sargent, Dakota, Jan. 12, 188S