Show I 1 poa li a ins anted NOTON nov 7 governor mellette of dakota territory in bis annual report bays the growth of the population has been rapid and stable and has now reached as against in 1885 the total area of land filed upon during the pr was acrea against I 1 the preceding year the bulk of lie present vacant land area is about acres the area of land sold by the northern pacific railway arm its erana and by private ow ners is estimated to equal about 23 per cent of the lands entered during the year the report bays there has been during the past year a practical ces sanon of railway building as compared with the remarkable activity of 1887 upon the subject of agriculture the report in part that almost the entire area of dakota is susceptible to cultivation and those portions not so adapted are available for crazing sock cawing tor dakota possesses peculiar adaptation is a rapidly growing industry the increase in the value of live stock during the lait nine ciara is stated to have been ca dairying is be an important industry and during two years a large number of creameries crea meries leaie been established during the last few mo its the governor bays the subject 0 irrigation ha aU raced a pi eat amount ol 01 attention at the last session of the legislature an act was author iz ng the sinking of artesian ait esian upon the petition of a certain number of residents of townships aad the work of byoung wella is in progress in a number of counties the tin mines in the black hills are attract ing a great deal of interest within the last year a company of foreign capitalists has been organized with heavy capital to develop what are known as iwarney peak in and cheu r counties it is alie opinion of experts the governor eay that these mines contain alie largest aud most valuable aggregation of tin veins ever to the attention of the world the governor epars of the treatment of these ores and says they require no no roasting as is the case with foreign ores one of the problems which confronts alie people of dakota the governor says in cheap fuel the supply 0 timber m the black hills is well nigh exhausted for this reason A good deal of for c at has been done during alie year outcrop out crop pings indicating of coal were discovered in alie southern hills near ked canyon lat summer and a shaft sink in the of liapin city panned through coal uri nations acal fields are known to exist in the vicinity of hog creek in county and some valuable cices have been opened near the wyoming line during the year but as yet the lack of railroad facilities has operated against the of the coal industry |