Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-11-20
sRuLE's BOOM.
Engineers Of the G. NJ. 4 St. Paul
Setting Stakes through the
Stress OF tho Embryo
Capital.


Transportation NJ Fort ttale.-
Steamboat, aud Other Items.
Correspondence Press and Dakotaian.
Brule City. D. T., Nov. IA, '75.-Yester-
day was a gala day in this region, the occa-
Zion of which being the arrival Of the en-
gineer and surveying corps of the Chicago,
Milwaukee 4 St. Paul railway. EARLY in
June last, this same party, under the direc-
ton of Chief Engineer Kimball, made a
preliminary survey here. the object being
to obtain information as 10 the possibilities
of and the advantages of making the Mis-.
souri, river terminus Of their contemplated
extension to the Black Hills. Since then
the surveyors and locating engineers have
been constantly on the field, experimenting
on the feasibility 81 reaching the Missouri
river ut American creek, Crow creek, Fort
Thompson, Pierre, etc. After a careful ex-
animation of all the routes, the company
has decided to run their road in here, and.
in furtherance o! this programme, the
engineers get their grade and
center stakes. the latter running about
one hundred feet south Of the preliminary
survey made last spring. The pent up
hopes of Bruleitcs ,s, now realized aud as a
sequence everything aud everybody Is on
the "boom." A reception was rendered Mr.
Dunbar who has charge Of the surveying
department of Milwaukee Co., hy our PEG.
pie last evening.
With the G. NJ. & St. P. assured at this
place a big rush Of homo seekers and bust
ness men may be looked for at once. Char
ley Collins still continues to give to each
person desiring to put up a residence o,
business house a lot gyatui,lously on which
to build he yesterday afternoon disposed of
eight lots in this way. Our greatest want
at present is a hotel of some kind and a liv-
cry stable. Strangers are arriving daily who,
for want Of other accommodations have to
be billeted on the older residents, and teams
10 accommodate land hunters and do the
every day work here are unat.slnable. The
town is in great need Of q good blacksmith,
and q lawyer could at once drop into a large
and lucrative practice. TIE county having
just been organized and having heretofore
been outside the pale of legal redress, old
grudges are being raked up, and as q sc.
quence Justice L. w. Lewis had no less
than seven ca.es docketed with him for
trial yesterday AID there is not a lawyer in
Bru!e county. Can't you ship up a few of
your surplus legalshirs?
Charley Collins expects to get out The
first number Of the Brule City Times about
the first of December,
There is to be an extensive thinning out
of surplus and unused qu~artermaster's stock
at Fort Hale tomorrow, among the lot be-
ing a large number Of horses, mules, DO.
MES. harness. etc.
The steamer Helena passed up this morn.
ing making good time. If Yankton don't
look out Firesteel will get away with her
commercial %laurels.. Heretofore our peo.
pie have relied entirely upon Yankton for
our supplies, but now Firesteel steps into
the arena aud says she can save US half the
distance in travel and will duplicate Yank.
ton prices. SO far no Yankton firm has
delgned or condescended to visit Brule Civ
in furtherance Of his business. A numbe,
of St. Paul capitalists and business men
headed by the irreprcssible Major T. NJ.
Newson, editor Of 81. Pauls first daily
newspaper. as also l bel eve. its first post
master, are to arrive here tomorrow
There is q great want felt here for a hnsi
ness house carrying a general stock. AL
though the city and contiguous county il
rapidly being filled up and the land fol
} miles about here all taken, there is not 9
business house or general store of any KIND
in Brule City. This will seem like a strange
f assertion, but 1t is nevertheless true. Blu,
like Moses on his pilgrimage to Canaan VI
have been and still continue to "wa,ch and
wait and pray" G.
TO CASH BUYERS,