quoted from, they gave the exact and practical information the reader would desire--break-up of the prairie would cost $25 or $30 for five acres on which to grow wheat and potatoes, cash to be had by working on the nearby railroad at $2.50 per day, salt to be had at five cents per pound, butter could be sold for ten cents per pound, fish and game were abundant,--also mosquitoes![305] [302] This valuable little book bore the title _Skandinaverne i de Forenede Stater og Canada, med Indberetninger og Oplysninger fra 200 Skandinaviske Settlementer. En Ledetraad for Emigranten fra det gamle Land og for Nybyggeren in Amerika._ [303] Translated from _Fæderelandet og Emigranten_, July 21, 1870. [304] Schröder, _Skandinaverne i de Forenede Stater og Canada_ (1867), 53. [305] _Ibid._, 53; also a two-and-a-half-column article "Vink til Nysettlere i Minnesota," in _Fædrelandet og Emigranten_, June 29, 1871. The first of a long line of Swedish, Norwegian, and Danish periodicals in the west, was a little paper called _Nordlyset_ (Northern Light), which began publication in the Norwegian colony in Racine county, Wisconsin, in 1847, with James D. Reymert as editor. It was a small four-page sheet which at the start espoused the cause of the Free Soil party. In 1850 it changed hands, and was re-christened _Demokraten_; tho its subscription list increased to three hundred, the venture proved a failure.[306] [306] Langeland, _Nordmændene i Amerika_, 94-107. Langeland succeeded Reymert as editor of _Nordlyset_. A few copies of _Nordlyset_, _Demokraten_, _Emigranten_, and some fifteen other early Norwegian papers were found some years ago in the hands of an old Norwegian, Christopher Hanson of St. Ansgar, Iowa. By him they were turned over to Rasmus B. Anderson, then editor of _Amerika_. _Amerika_, Jan. 4, 1899. Anderson sold the collection for $100 to the United Church in whose Seminary Library it now rests. "Raport fra Komiteen til Indsamling af historiske Documenter," _Beretning om det syttende Aarsmöde for den Forenede norsk lutherske Kirke i Amerika_ (1906), 126-128.