Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1879-06-02
Successful Progress Of the. Big Da-
.cotah on Her way to the
Upper Waters.
Fort Pierre improvements, Business and Per
sonal Mention.
change In Climatic Condition OF tho
Country-.Development OF " New
Agricultural Region for tho
Coming Immigrant.
Editorial Correspondence

Fort PIERRE, Dr., May ~, 1S'9.-1he
Dacotah is making time and reputation.
w reached Pierre at A o'clock this after
noon and expect to reach Bismarck BY the
end Of the week. Thus far w have pro-
gressed without interruption, except such
as is caused by discharging freight, taking
on wood and the darkness of the nights.
The river is not in good condition for navi-
CATION and We are having more than our
share of strong winds. In spite of these
delays the Dacotah is making the best trip
of the season and will tie up at Bismarck
in less han ten days from the time of her
departure from Yankton.
AT Pierre l find a bristling little burg.
The leyee is crowded with Black Hills
freight, and the warehouses are piled to
overfowing. Bull trains are coming and
going constantly, those arriving scarcely
taking time to bait their stock before they
are loaded and away again, laden with sup
plies for the d%enizens Of the golden slope.
Bramble, Miner e. Co, Of Yankton, have
been adding to their storage and train
capacity, until they are fully competent to
meet the largely increased business which
falls to their share. They are the leading
freighters of the leading freight route to
the Hills, and the immense business which
passes through their hands is a matter Of
profound surprise to your correspondent,
who was one Of the pilgrims who landed at
this spot in the early days of Black Hills
excitement and saw the first rude shacks
erected at this landing, which now is the
scene of extensive freight transfers.
Pierre has improved as a place Of habi-
tation. The dense cottonwood grove which
fringed the banks of the Bad and Missouri
rivers has been cut away, and in their place
has risen comfortable domiciles aud roomy
business places. Rather rude, they are,
some of them in their structure, but all
bear the impress of the spirit Of improve
ment. Log cabins and frame houses have
taken the place Of the rough shacks and
tents and brush piles which formerly ac-
~commodated the people Of this embryo city.
A street has been laid out running
parallel with Bad river and an
other intersecting it at right angles,
Along these streets one sees in the
outward adornment numerous evidences O.
a civilization which has come to stay, and
finally, it has come to pass that a school fol
children has been established here and j
doing a tlourishing business. All this hap
pens in a community which exists withou
any legal organization and holds its plac
among the communities of men and womel
by the mutual torbearance of its people an
a disposition to do unto others as they woul,
others should do unto them, withou. the in
%centive of an appeal to the power Of law, 70
there is no such appeal. But a few year
ago an Indian village occupied this site an
a few of the cabins of its red occupants ye
remain. But the golden developments G
the Hills beyond bade the Indian owner
pick up their traps and emigrate and the
; obeyed the mandate. OF the former resit
ents of Yankton ! find here a few. Fran
Ketchum is doing a mercantile business ar
. his family occupies a little log cabin on II
bank Of Bad river. Judge and Mrs. Leep'
have lived here for several years, but ha
their wagons loaded and will leave +
u Deadwood in the morning, leaving Il
Grand Central hotel in charge of II.
= Bross (who has been the senior member
~ the firm since the establishment of the hott
and Mr.. Chusbro, who assumes Judge Ii
:, per's interest. Henry Pfotenhauer is still
= Pierreite and supplies the people with fire.
a. meat, as was his custom in Yankton, a
James Mcknight has charge of Bramb
- Miner & Co.'S warehouse. There may
others of Yankton here, but these are all
have seen. Everybody is so busy that
body has time to enter into any details
NV garding residents. The traffic of local m
i'm chants is with travellers and freighters, a
hat when it is known that over half the Biz
raj Hills freight goes by way of Pierre it '
~. be realized that this trade is not insieu
an cant.
At the Indian and military posts bel
there is nothing new or startling. Thi
t Of move along in the same old way. The
dams are quietly ~listless and lazily inact
The paternal government supplies all Il
lion wants and they have nothing more to
for. No care for the morrow, no scri
ing for breakfast that they may have 80
thing for dinner, TO patching of wi
d clothes that they may cover nakedl
gest through the winter. Your full grown
adj man knows nought OF the worry of
He has no call to become a tramp an,
1t. raging and rioting over the prairie'
horses and scalps. He has no use for ell
l do not notice any marked improycl
in the direction Of civilization on the
of this creature, but that is not to be
'he dered at. A people supported in idle
pes' cannot progress.
l think ! can positively note a ma
PPiy imnrovempnt in the annparanca of