Press and daily Dakotaian. (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1880-1889, 1884-09-06

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whose capital as center Of commerce is
something corrupt legislature can not
bargain away, and something that is
being added to all the while. So far az
the capital is concerned, the writer has
always maintained that the territory as
whole could better afford to keep the
capital at Yankton until the new state
boundaries were fixed and the country
more settled. than Yankton itself could
afford to hold it, and draw the fire of
town-site speculators, aided largely by
the railroads, at every ambitious new
"future.great" quarter section on the
bare prairie.
WHAT YANKToN ENTERPRISE HAS DONE.
II anybody thinks that this smacks
somewhat OF sour grapes, I want to ask
his attention for one moment, while I
show him what the record is.
Since the capital commission act was
secured through its own enterprise the
following:
A pork packing house.
A woolen mill.
A flax town mill.
A laundry and toilet soap factory.
A pressed brick mandatory.
An additional extensive brickyard.
A large creamery.
A good system Of waterworks.
A we'll equipped fire department.
A college, with commodious building.
An Indian training school.
A new hotel, with modern improve.
Seven artesian wells, making ten in
all.
Fair grounds and driving park, with
buildings.
Street lamps, graded and graveled
streets.
A number of solid brick blocks, and
some costly residences.
Can any OF tho growing young cities
in the northwest make better showing
for the period of less than eighteen
months? Is there any town of 5000
inhabitants in Dakota, or in any state OF
the Union, that has done more for itself
during the last year than this?
Ibe facts are, that the Dakota oil
twenty years ago is growing rich by the
accumulations of its own industry and
labor, and that Yankton is coming into
the fuller exercise of her rightful prerog
atlves of commercial situation and sd
vantages.
FANKToN AND TIE RAILROADS.
1t used to be pet argument with the
capltal-removers that Yankton was the
most inaccessible place in Dakota terri.
tory; that it has been given the go.by
by the railroads, and was the next thing
to being out of the world. That ls Just
what they said, and very much what was
thought generally of Yankton. It il
positively refreshing to turn to the fact.
and railroad map of Dakota.
You can leave Yankton any morning
and take continuous passage, stopping
only for meals or for through
connections made in from q few
minutes time to an hour, fol
any point on the four divisions Of the
Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul's Da
kota mileage OF 800 miles, with the ex
ception only of points between Aberdeen
and Ipswich, q distance of twenty.si
miles, and Aberdeen and Ellendale
thirty.seven miles. You can reach the
same day from Yankton all points be
tween Yankton, Sioux City, and Siou,
Falls, l3l miles; between Canton and
Chamberlain, lac miles; between Siou,
; Falls. Flandrau. and Woonsocket, 12:
miles, and between Mitchell and Aber
deem. 13O miles. These distances or,
extended by several connections at juno
tion points of the Chicago and North
western railway, whereby Huron ani
other points are likewise reached thu
same dAy.
1t is nevertheless true enough that th,
railroad facilities of Yankton are not q
: good as they ought to be, and far from
,. being commensurate to the Commercial
Importance of Yankton. But anothe
look at the railroad map I want tn
reader to spread out before him viii
result in. the easy discovery of thi
further fact-that it will take preciou
little more railroad building to max
Yankton railroad center of no small
pretenslon. The Chicago and North
;, western at Centerville, D. T., is within
thirty milee. Fill in that gap, and 70,
3 may leave Yankton after breakfast an,
8 dine at the Huron eating. house. Afte
dinner, you can depart cas-, west, o.
north. and arrive for supper, or before
at points between Huron and Water
q town. Pierre, and Columbia.
The present excellent service on tn
Chicago, Milwaukee and st. Paul coul,
: be materially extended and improved b,
, the closing up Of the gap Of about fit;
8 miles between Scotland and Mitchell
. and daily trains from Yankton via Scot
land up the Jim valley direct. There j
I hardly any doubt but that the las
l named road will build from Scotland I,
I Mitchell next year, which will give th
4 Milwaukee and st. Paul Jim river lin,
, Of nearly $50 miles in length, reaching
! from Yankton to Glendale.
And there ID reason to believe that tn
{ Northwestern had its eye on Yanktol
: when il crossed the Big Sioux river .
!, Havardeu, Iowa, and built 10 nsy
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