The Territory is penetrated by two great lines of railroad. The Northern Pacific traverses North Dakota. South Dakota is penetrated by the Chicago and Northwestern Railroad. and on the lines of these two great highways the tide of immigration has settled. Between these two territories is a barren space of lands extending for a hundred miles which will probably never be brought under cultivation. while an Indian reservation stretches across onethird of the Territory on the proposed line of division. There is but one wagonroad consecting Northern and Southern Dakota today. and that along an old Indian trail running along the Missouri River. over which the United States mail is carried once a week. [Here the hammer fell.]
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