The Canton advocate. [volume] (Canton, D.T. [S.D.]) 1877-1897, 1882-04-13

| the benefit OF about ! 900 COWS. -. u.
Hinkley is president and John Stephen
son secretary. The postoffice address is
kidder. Other creameries will be started
in different portions of the county. We
invite practical butter makers and would
state there are several fields open to men
of experience and capital to come and see
us. Butter commands good price the
year round owing to the great demand to
supply the different markets. There Is
hardly any expense to its production, as
every farmer has an abundance OF pasture
and grass land
WHIT WE RAISE.
Wheat, oats, barley, rye, fax, potatoes
| and all root crops, are grown in abundanc,
wheat yielding from Is to % bushel:
| to the acre, oats 80 to 20 and other crops
in proportion Corn is fast becoming the
| principal crop with our farmers. 1t yields
well and natures long before the early
frost.
Our fuel is principally coal, brought
| from the Iowa coal fields. Soft coal sells
at 81. 90 per ton. Hard or anthracite coal
! for base burners is sold at from $40 to 81
per ton Wood, soft, $500 Coal has
been discovered at several points in the
county and many Of our citizens are quite
sanguine that if a prospecting could be
had coal would be found, as we are said to
| be within the coal range.
PRICE OF LAND.
The land Of the county is so generally
| good that purchaser might buy sight
unseen, and he could not but get good
tract The prices range from s. per acre
| and upward for unimproved land, and
$40 upward, according to improvements
and nearness to town tand railroads. for
improved lands, there being occasional
| bargains below those figures. The i'm
prOvements upon many farms are of the
| first order-fne, commodious houses and
barns are scattered about the county and
others are being erected As already
stated our county is we'll drained. There
| is not much waste land
RAILROAD FACILITIES.
The Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul
| crosses this county east and west through
| its entire length. which gives us the best
| facilities with the Chicago and Milwaukee
| markets 1t is the great trunk line from
the east to the Missouri river, at Cham
berlain, or the Black Hills, 1t transports
our surplus products east and in return
provides us with lumber, coal. etc. We
also have a north and south road, opera
| ted by the same company, which extends
from Sioux Falls to Sioux City, and also
passes through the entire county. Other
railroad companies are seeking an admis-
sion into Dakota to get share of the
carrying trade and the prospects at this
writing are very encouraging to the coun-
| ty for more roads
MAIL FACILITIES.
We are blessed with the best of mail ia
cilities and no one individual has more
than four miles to go to an office. Uncle
| Sam has been very accommodating in this
respect We append list of the differ
ent post-offices in the county. Some
townships have two Offices, named as fol-
lows:
Antioch, Brooklyn, Canton, Eden,
Fairview, Kidder, Lennox, Long Greek,
Maple Grove, Nurey, Saddle Creek, Sc
lima, Silver Lake and Worthing.
TIMBER CULTURE.
Dakota, or this portion of it, is a prai-
rie country. There is no natural timber
ber only on banks skirting the Sioux riv-
er Artificial timber or groves, are dot
ting the prairie in all directions. They
grow very rapidly We know of groves
set out five years ago that are already large
enough and need thinning out, which fur
nishes the farmer with fuel Cottonwood,
Box Elder, Ash, Maple, Willow, etc. are
the best and quickest growing varieties.
No farmer should or needs be without a
grove. 1t enhances his property, beauti-
fes his home, and helps to break the force
of winds.
| HERD LAW.
We take the following from late issue
of the Advocate which says:
! Dakota has adopted the policy of fencing cattle in
rather than out which does away with tine expense
| of fencing farms, no small item in the matter of
first cost and repairs to the farmer in country
where timber is not plenty, and labor is at prem
! ium The owner of stock is bound to herd his cat
tie and keep them from damaging his neighbors
| during certain crop-raisiug months of the year,
and " cattle raising is becoming of the most
extensive and profitable Industries The fertile
prairies, covered with the most nutritious grasses
and watered with clear and never failing streams
afford a range of pasturage unsurpassed in excel
said to be equally good the cultivated varieties
grows with great luxuriance in the valley bottoms
and can be had in unlimited quantity for merely
the expense of cutting and curing.
MARKETS.
We append few items showing the
prices paid for the following:
COUNTRY PRODUCE.
Flax, S1.OO.
Rye, 90 cents.
| Oats, 80 to 35 cents.
| Corn, So cents.
| Eggs, 10 cents.
| Potatoes, S1.00.
| Hides, cents.
| Turkeys, cents.
| Chickens cents.
| Live Hogs, S5.25.
Barley, As O. 5o cents.
| Choice Tub Butter, 90 cents.
Choice roll butter, 25 cents.
Flour, choice, 81 40 per sack.
Flour, medium S1.90 per sack.
| Wheat, No. ?, So cents No. B. 81 cents.
Buckwheat -four, $3.50 per hundred pounds.
The cost of groceries are no more IL
proportion to distance than they are 30C
miles to the east of U.s. This is owing tc
, the established through rate system.
BUILDING MATERIAL.
The prices of material is not at all un-
reasonable, but the price of lumber ha:
advanced within the past three months
Good building stone is worth from 81 81
to s.. 80 per cord, freight added, bricL
from SS to $40 per thousand. The fol
lowing will give an idea of the cost Of lum
Der at Canton:
Finishing: Three Uppers. s.......... $4,000 a. SEQ
Floaring. Drop Siding and Stock. 2a.O0 q 42O
| boards. First $50
siding: First First ..,...:... 24.oo q $50
Fencing: Number One. .........-.. $50
Number Two. ..-.........
Quilted d........ 100
| Common boards. ....... $50
Number Two Post. 1870
| Dimension: ScantlinE, Joist. Timbers 22.O
over twenty feet . 22.oo a 25 o
| Number One Ship Lath.. 26
Number Two Ship Lath.. 25
Star A, Star Shingles
Shad A Shingles. 3
Number One Shingles. 25
Building Paper, q D.
HOW OFFICERED.
Lincoln county has faithful set c
officers in Office, and the financial cor
dition of the county, found elsewhere !
this article, is mainly due to these gentle
men honest and official acts, and especi;
credit is due to the present board OF count
commissioners who have so ably manage
; the affairs of the county IN every respec
The county is officered as follows
". NJ. CUPPErT. Clerk of District Court
ELLISG opsAL, Register of Deeds ana E1ohe
County Clerk.
8 HUETsoN, Treasurer.
5 I L. DIXON Sheriff.
J. ALL1BoSE Superintendent of Schools.
Z Bennett Judge of Probate
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