Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-09-08

ln1uence throughout the territory. Con-
nected with the newspaper Office is
steam printing and publishing house
and bindery.
The Yankton Herald. published
weekly by Taylor & Sargent, is the
father OF the democratic press Of Dakota.
although announcing itself this
newspaper from this time forth.
Both Journals are we'll supported, and
in favor with the people.
YANKToN AS PLACE OF RESIDENCE.
Yankton is highly desirable place OF
residence. 1t has many of the conven.
fences of eastern. city life, and socially
is delightful to degree. Governor
Pierce, who recently came to Yankton
to take the oath Of Office, is reported as
saying that he was surprised and pleased
beyond measure at the evidences of cul-
ture and refinement, favored with cor
dlality, that he met on every hand while
at Yankton. The favorable impressions
received by Dakota's new governor of
the parent city of the territory are the
same that enter into the social experl
ences of any gentleman or lady who is
accorded the privilege of seeing Yankton
within doors.
AhVo oPOhcu VI Iuo picturesque
location of the city on the banks of the
Missouri. What nature has done is fur.
ther aided by the wise liberality of man.
There is not handsomer town plat in
the northwest. You find here streets
and not alleys; those running east and
west having width of eighty feet, and
broad avenues Of from 100 to 100 feet
UJHa Fvarv 81 hoe To- lee ~, -
shade, the cottonwood, maple and ash
predominating among the trees, which
are not native timber by any means, but
were set out ten, twelve, or fifteen years
ago. In the cool of the beautiful shade
at Yankton, the Dakota enthusiast can
realize with but little effort the great
possibilities of the treeless expanse
of territory north of here, ten years
hence. Yankton is largely built OF brick
and can boast of highly creditsble
class Of business blocks and residences.
many of the latter being especially note
worthy as beautiful homes.
THE DISCOVERY OF COAL
The center OF interest at Yankton, and
indeed in the entire territory, Just OF
this time is the scene of operations at
the Jencks farm, three miles from here,
where the drill sent down through the
bosom of mother earth for water, has
penetrated seven coal veins. As reported
by wire to the Inter Ocean, these
veins aggregate twenty feet of solid coal.
The largest vein was six feet, at the bot.
tom of which the drill had reached q
depth of 275 feet. A few feet above the
drill left vein of five feet, and other
veins varying from six inches to four
feet in thickness.
The coal has been pronounced by ex.
perts after examination and analysis, to
be a superior quality of bituminous
coal.
tIhe only question remaining seems to
be, is this coal mine or merely pocket
But the existence of 30 many layers of
coal seams would certainly indicate that
there must be something more than q
pocket of that most precious Of all
minerals in prairie country in the for.
tunate Sind" at the Jencks' farm.
A company is to be organized at once
for the purpose of applying the only real
test possible-the sinking of coa
shaft.
A coal mine at Yankton-if such il
truth it proves to be-would be the
event OF the year, and the greatest dis
0overy in the Dakota northwest since
the gold excitement of ten years age
about in the Black Hills.
GREAT EXPECTATIONS.
A coal mine would solve in an instan
the problem of whether there is to be
great city on this site. 1t would brinI
in the additional railroads required TO
distributing agents and supply the chea]
fuel which would, in conenction with tn
low rates onraw materials always enjoye,
by railroad on the Missouri river, Civ
Yankton every advantage as site TO
manufacture. It would cheaper coal al
over Dakota by So ton.
These, briefly are among the possibili
ties OF Yankton, with coal mine at he
door. Without that coal mine, situatet
just at this spot, it is the writer's belle
for reasons stated more than once, tina
Yankton is bound to make large ant
prosperous city. The chances, however
in favor of finding coal, not only her
but at other points along the Missouri
above, are supported by the intelligen
, opinion of biologists and old settler,
that coal in Dakota has only been
question of time and discovery.
When one learns that surrounding
Yankton fertile lands, situated in be
tween cultivated farms, can be bough
to-day for ten dollars an acre and les
! he is very apt to think that souther
Dakota is likely to receive It's full shal
of the immigration to Dakota from no,
! on of home.seekers, who come not t
: settle on Uncle Sans farm, but to bu
. decided farms of their own.
a A CHANCE FOR MORE TOWN LOTS.
The plated site of Yankton include
q only about 1900 acres, and it is plai
that anything like boom or stir in re,
. estate circles will turn considerable acl
\ property into town lots. Among prol
= erty owners who will be favorably affec
Z ed by such ON event are ex.Governt
i. Edmunds, who has resided here sint
taking his seat as Governor, in 1856
I the Hon. Bartlett Tripp, O. ]. b. Harri
Messrs. Taylor & Sargent, J. P. Crenna
. and others, public spirited citizens al
n who, in advancing their own interest
must needs study the common welfal
= of Yankton and Dakota.
I don't know that could refer an il
4 quirer for further information to an
q official letter writer, for believe Yam
il ton hasn't any 'board of trade," but
q any ps rson desires such information l
= can readily obtain it by addressing cit
n er OF the gentlemen named above,
a one OF the banks-of which there a
). three strong ones, the First Nations
,. Mckinney & Scougal, and Edmund
= Hudson & Co., or either OF the newsp
!. pers.
The better way would be to pay vii
|. for yourself to the Dakota OF TWEEN,
/. years ago and its alma mater.
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