and dwclling-houses erected. They to own "that domestic country ealled home, with all the living sympathies and all the future hopes and projccts which people it." From this time "a new era was to be dated in the his tory of the Dakotas: an era full of brilliant promise." tract of territory relinquished by them was "larger than the State of New York, fertile and beautiful beyond description," far the best part of Minnesota. It is "so far diversified in natu ral advantages that its productive powers may be considered almost inexbaustible, were to have now a chance The Probably no tract on the surface of the globe is equally well watered. A large part is rich arable land; portions are of unsurpassed fertility, and eminently adapted to the production in incalenlable quantities of the cercal grains. The boundless plains present inexhaustible fields of pasturage, and the river bottoms are richer than the banks of the Nile. In the bowels of the earth there is every indica- tion of extensive mineral fields."

It would scem that the assertion made only a few lines be fore this glowing paragraph-" to the Indians themselves the broad regions which have been ceded are of inconsiderable valne"could not be true. It would seem that for eight thon sand people, who, according to this same writer, "have outlived in a great degree the means of subsistence of the hunter state," and must very soon "resort to the pursuits of agri culture," nothing could have been more fortunate than to have owned and occupied thirty-five millions of acros of just such land as this.

some evidence of a disposition to turn this land to account. The reports from the different farms and schools show progress in farming industry and also in study. The farming is carried on with diffieulty, because there are only a few carts and ploughs, which must be used in turn by the different farmers, and therefore must come quite too late to be of nse, and there is much quarrcl They appear to be giving already to some