Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1886-12-18
Fortunes in Her Future--An linking o
the Forces and Plans Behind Recent
Great Transactions.
Four New Railroads in Sight That Hun
dred Thousand Dollar Land Deal.
Interview with President Peirce Of the s
O.&D. N. 3. r.

yesterday Of the Weare & Allison tract
for one hundred thousand dollars was
the chief topic of conversation in the
city last night. At hotels, club houses
and by the family fireside the wonder
aver went up. ..What does it mean?"
There must be some big scheme on
foot. John Peirce knows what he is
going to do with that or he would not
have bought it.
A TRIBUNE reporter consumed with
the same curiosity last night sought
nim out this morning and went at him
for an interview" He il a hard
man to interview, as he talks faster
than a machine, but when the reporter
got through he was able to make this
out of his notes: What are you 60
ing to do with your hundred thousand
dollar purchase, Mr.. Peirce'
Precisely what | did before when |
bought the railroad eighty, now known
as Hedges addition" We expect to
pat ia a cable car line at once. Would
have a hundred teams working now if
the weather was propitious or if ! had
the work opened before it froze up. AS
the other enterprise cost in grading
nearly $40, 600. Of which the city and
county never paid a cent, the expense
being wholly borne by the eighty acres
bought of the railroad company, so is
the recent purchase to be used in put
ting in car lines of different kinds,
grading streets and landscaping the
ground"
is this the whole schemep"
mo. The people in Dakota, north
east Neerssks and northwest Iowa are
great friends of Sioux City, especially
hose of Dakota. | propose to the
MERCHANTS M REAL EsTAT f
of the above territory who wish to be-
come identified more closely with Sioux
City. to let them in on the
ground floor for any lands
they may select for speculation, ana
thereby secure their influence in adver-
tising and otherwise helping to build
up Sioux City, and at the same time
make some money for themselves
How do you expect to do this?
just as it has been done at Kansas
City. There is in all probability a real
estate syndicate in every town within
one hundred miles radius of Kansas
City who W jointly, in and around,
Kansas City, property from which they
realize large profits
DO you think Sioux City is going to
be as good a town As Kansas Cityp
II think that Sioux City will be as
good a town as Kansas City now is, be-
cause you will observe, when you get
west of Chicago, Minneapolis and st.
Paul the large cities are being built in
the Missouri valley. The Missouri
river makes two great bends and Sioux
City occupies precisely the position on
n bend that Kansas City does on the
other; but perhaps a better reason
would be that the Missouri valley, a
hundred miles either way from Kansas
City, has in its towns half "A million
people. Sioux City, it is fair to say
will have the same advantage, and
with Council Bluffs and Omaha to.
gether deducted from the estimates,
this will leave Sioux City a place OF
100, 900 population. Our soil and the
area Of country tributary being ac.
knowledged equal to that of Kansas
City, is not our growth and prosperity
assureds Net necessarily. Kansas
City has been built chiefly by home en-.
terprise. Again, when the times were
hard in 1918, Kansas was advertised
90 WON Won ranJa aud bnr,1,t =,
America. and in all languages ano
countries of continental Europe, favor
able rates were made for emigrants anC
her territory speedily settled. Thi.
country having no land grants to al
~vertise it but on the other hand being
industriously advertised for its grass
hoppers and billiards., did not settle
up. At least one-half of the produc
tive soil that is tributary to Sioux City
remains idle and unoccupied-and
is no wonder Kansas City and its coun
try to-day is twenty-five years in al
vance of this
"Do you expect that we will get the
railroads and the home enterprises tc
build this city?'
LAS to the railroads Sioux City ha:
been on the defensive for a number o
years, dating frcm the inauguration O
the Sioux City and Des Moines rail
road, you may put her down as being
on the aggressive We have two more
railways than We had a year ago anC
we will have three more in q yea
hence if nothing happens to the stool
market adverse to railroad enter
prises.'
'By the purchase just made from
Weare e. Allison we get thu
right of way for our new
road up the Perry creek vale.
andyou need not be surprised if thu
li%nethrough the center of Plymouth
Sioux and Lyon counties of this stat
via Doom to Pipestone or Flandreau o
; in that vicinity, is a living fact a yea
hence"
.sDoes this mean the Manitobap"
| don't ask too many leading ques
q. tons"
What about the road from here t
Livermore, in Humboldt co%untyp'
s'Our men and teams are all read,
TO start on the work"
r ''Are you just going to run a prelim
n,rr Incp''