Rensselaer Republican, Volume 15, Number 31, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 April 1883 — About Dakota. [ARTICLE]

About Dakota.

We think it was a cynical Frenchman who gave a whole volume of “Advice to people about to enter the state of matrimony” in the one word “don’t. ” Our advice to people about to join the universal stamped for Dakota, is not to be in a hurry for a few weeks yet, and in justification of that advice we ask them to read the following article from last week’s issue of the “Jimtown Pilot,” a paper published at Altoona, (formerly Hitchcock) in Beadle county. “People coming here with their stock are badly disappointed because they cannot get lumber to build with. There is such a rush for Dakota, and especially the Jim River Valley, that it is impossible for'the raihoads to transport the Emigrant moveables, and yet the management of the roads must hold up and send in fuel and lumber or the people now here will suffer. There is not a pound of coal in Altoona to-day, and hundreds of people are waiting for lumber to build shanties to live Jin, and stables to shelter . their ; stock. We cannot live without fuel to burn and as the railroad officers are fully advised of the critical condition that the people are in, it seems as if they ought to bring coal and lumber before bringing more people and stock into the country. Nearly all the towns in Dakota, along the line of the Northwestern, are short of coal and lumber and great suffering and inconvenience must ensue if the railroad company does not furnish these much needed supplies at once.”