DAKOTA'S HANGING FARMS.

Thames Star, Volume XIV, Issue 4552, 7 August 1883, Page 2

DAKOTA'S HANGING FARMS.

"Yes, gentlemen," continued the Dakota man, "we have got the biggest country, the biggest people, and the biggest farms there are anywhere Ott earth. What d'ye think' of farms three or four hundred hmH#jsquare?" and the Dakota man leaned; fcsek and enjoyed the astonishment of the. nob? 'LWnat d'ye. raise, chiefly? 1' asked a quiet man, who had taken it all .in. " JfinbeiS'V rtpKad, the man from Dakota. '" We <doaV<to' any business butwheat." „ "X don't think I want any of it," remarked; the qallt) man. It loons to me as though, there; couldn't be any liouses to live in up that way." "That's so,"] munaarea^the" crowd. V Houses !''e*jpliaisaed;thejentle. man. from Dakota. 'I Mouses! homes! Why when I say that territory contains more and better: buildings than-all the rest of the United States pat together, I am ashamed of myself for the mildness in which,l draw.it! Houses! rGentleman, ,it is a positive fact'"that there' isn't a square .foot id* that territory; that isn'tbailtf over, andln. some cases they have to run poles off the A roofs of the buildings already erected, and on those poles they : have built houses right over the streets and roads.. That's what keeps us so warm in the winter and coohn summer., The mid and sunlight nerer get through." /'Do I understand you that every foot of that country ia roofed in ?" demanded the quiet man. " Is that a fact; or are you gassing ?" "Justas sure as you are born," replied the Dakota i man, promptly., ••• if a man goea into that district with the ideaof buildiiur he'seoine to be hard." •• In that ease,*/irejoibed thl ! quiet man, slowly—" in that case, will jobe kind enough to explain to me just whew those big farma you have been speakint of vftranwr," said the Dakota man, "stranger, you tuink you hare put i everything that leads to wealth. Q en Se! men, them farms is on the tops ofS houses, and we put them up there tot to lei em get the sun and at the same time keen them outof the wet! You see, wW-^ iiut they interrupted him with thriA *