Show GO TO DAKOTA The disappointed and unhappy men and women who failed to be numbered among the 10000 who secured claims in Oklahoma should turn their eyes northward andmov towards the broad plains of Dakota III that territory the lands yet belonging to governmentand which are open to settlement settle-ment by citizens aggro ate about nineteen million acres In a little while to this vast tract will be added nearly eleven million acres now embodied in i the Sioux reservation and for the purchase of which government commissioners commis-sioners have recently been appointed In this empire of territory nearly two hundred hun-dred thousand farms of 100 acres each can be located and fully half of the land lies within the rich wheat belt The soil is more fertile Than that of Oklahoma and I fully twenty live per cent more can be obtained ob-tained for its product acre for acre The climate may be more rigorous and the unwelcome blizzard may come oftener tam in the Indian country but the advantages outweigh the disadvantage and make Dakota as a place of residence equally desirable with Oklahoma With the rich and productive northwest open to settlement on the same terms as those enjoyed en-joyed in the new territory one cannot understand un-derstand why 30000 people rushed iuto Oklahoma for 10000 homesteads nor whj I 20000 of them are retiring discouraged and disheartened The only explanation must be in the fact that it is human nature to try to got what is most difficult to obtain or what cannot be had Perhaps if the Dakota lands were withdrawn from the market and the people were told that they must keep off there would be as wild a clamor for them as there was to get into Oklahoma |