St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-03-30
WILL BEAS FREE AS WATER
ALI South Dakota Will Be Invited to
Come and See What Pierre Is
WITHOUT MONEY OR PRICE
Some Of the Good Things It Will
Have to Show to Its
Visitors.

special 10 the Gl0ee-
PIERRE, S. d., March 29-Pierre's
board of trade has now evolved novel
scheme. which is already well on the
way toward maturity. It consists in
chartering series of special trains for
theaneXt ninety days, whicl; are to be
made up from all quarters of South
Dakota and run into Pierre at stated in
tervals. The people of South Dakota
are all cordially requested to get on
these excursion trains and come to
Pierre to view its site and ponder over
its prospects, watch the operations of
life-sized boom and partake Of the free
hospitality of the city, whose people on
these occasions will turn over the KEYS
to the visitors, and then buy corner
lot and go away with a strengthened
impression that Pierre is going to be
THE CAPITAL CITY.
To the people who may care to accept
of the invitation sent out with these
excursion trains the assurance is gwen
that everything connected with the
Journey, from the time the train is
boarded until the return, will be as free
as the water of life. Pierre thus pro-
poses to do the handsomest thing by all
who are willing to come and view her
beauties, in return for the general in
dOrSement her claims are receiving
from each and every section of South
Dakota. Pierre certainly has the best
cause to feel and act in spirit of hOspi-
tality toward all, even to her several
rivals on the east, for her
STAR Is AWAY UP
IN the ascendency, and Pierre's days for
complaint and piping times of poverty
and hard luck are at an end. This fact
is patent. Her era of prosperity has
commenced. while her star of empire of
has stuck a stake for good. The real
estate boom in Pierre the past week has
shown a great and marked increase over
the preceding weeks of its existence.
The sales have already gone far beyond
the Mathematician mark, and are using
| up the fag end on the second million.
Inside property, though in the greater
demand by investors, has been kept
down to the level mark, and there has
been no great and beWildering rush and
jam of speculation to raise it to inflated
values. The lot that would have sold
| for $500 before the boom has not sailed
up IN price to the altitudinOus. range of
| $4,000. or anything in that line, but, on
| the contrary, has taken moderate. and
| healthy advance in Drice-a fact that
leads all to believe the
GOOD TINES ARE HERE TO STAY.
Outside property for distance of
several miles from the center of the
city is being greedily gobbled by invest
ors, and the engineer, with the assist
ance of trusty aXman or two, is max
ing the Welkin ring with the sounds of
taps on thousands of stakes that define
the boundaries of multitudinouS addi-
tons, acre property and lots. And the
new enterprises are keeping pace along
with the new general order of things.
The city board of education is calling
an election for the purpose OF building
| new school houses in the several wards,
including large central building, at a
cost of $4,000. These school houses
will now be started just as
soon as the red tape process can
be completed, which will be only few
weeks at the longest. The foundations
are now started for several more new
| and elegant brick blocks, and work on
| them goes merrily onward. Work on
the Park hotel has commenced, and the
| building boom has just got fairly on
both feet. and making ready for rapid
| strides. The city is preparing a fran
chise for system of electric lights,
which is to go into operation imme-
diately, or as soon as the plant can be
| arranged. Ffhe motor line project has
neared success, and it is contemplated
W eRlelu anu Operdte III 10 all lNe OUT
lying additions, as well as to Farm
island. five miles below the city,
which is sEut
GIFT TO PIERRE
from the government upon the opening
of the reservation. This motor line is
one of the surest of the sure. as it has
been demonstrated the past four years
that Pierre has supported and paid a
handsome dividend to her city street
railway, even during her dullest days of
gloom. Many minor improvements
have been started on the road. while the
business places that have so long stood
empty are no longer unOccupied. New
lights are appearing in the hitherto
silent and vacant dwellings over the
town. trade is being awakened as it
never was since the days of Black Hills
freighting, and the Future Great feels
the pulse of awakened life and energy
infused by the hundreds of new people
hot Il t<>I ,nz.