The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1888-08-10
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SMrrHwIcEs, DAk., Aug. 4th.
To THE STAR:
The q Bell will ship another bunch
of stock on the 10th, and other parties
on the 11th and 18th Of this month.
Messrs k,ngsberry & Co. have opened
up their place Of business in fine shape
in the Samson block ON the west side
of Washington avenue.
Ed Stack, of Oelrichs, has rented the
large new store just built by Charles
Davis of Oelrichs, and will put in
during the coming week . large and
complete stock of goods and now we
want good blacksmith and some man
to start hotel. Both would do we'll
here.
Smithwicks and the hot water city
will both take big boom as soon as
the Smithwicks and Hot Springs rail-
road is completed. The railroad sur
veyors commenced driving stakes from
our depot going toward the mouth of
Fall River. One thing is certain. A
better route cannot be chosen for a
road to tina Springs.
The gentle cowboy has come once
again into the limits of the softwater
belt where the big corn grows and the
m,ld voices of these young gents will
be heard almost day and night from
now until late in the fall. Last Fri
day was rushing day for business in
this little soft water town and in fact
the business of the year has fairly
commenced. Hereafter on shipping
day you will find Washington avenue
crowded with cowboys, men and horses.
Last Friday. the 3rd, the keystone
cattle company (Z Belly shipped six
teen carloads Of fine cattle. Over half
of them were the finest, largest and
fattest lot of stock that was ever ship
ped out of this country. From now
until the first of December things will
move with a lively gait in and around
this little burg. Last year we shipped
10000 head of fat cattle and the year
before $4,000. What the shipment
will be this year is something the most
knowing ones don't know anything
about. some claiming that it will exceed
that of any previous year, while others
predict that it will fall far short.
A number of bids on our school
house have been handed in, l believe.
and more will probably follow. Odell,
Cook & Co. are doing a big business in
the locating line. A good many claims
have been taken in the last week or so.
This rainy weather has interfered Will,
haying. and makes some of our farm
ers almost swear. With the big crops
that we have growing in this wonder
full softwater belt and the balance of
the county certainly ought to be an
indncement for the people Of the
county to hold a fair this fall. No
better wheat or oats, or bigger corn
was ever grown in any country than
can be seen at any one Of our farms.
So give us fair by all means so we
can show and prove that Fall River
county is truly great farming county
| in fact. prove beyond all doubt or con.
troversy that this is the garden spot Of
the Black Hills, il not the whole north
west. Nothing can advertise us to
better advantage than fair. And
another thing that the whole county is
Interested in and that is good wagon
bridg over the Cheyenne river. It is
one of the crying needs Of the present
something that ought to be talked and
worked up. The bridge should be
built without delay.
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