Custer chronicle. [volume] (Custer City, Black Hills, D.T. [S.D.]) 1880-1890, 1889-07-13

counts Of East Indian cultivation, and French
and English economy Ia farming methods,
ADD can avouch that, although you may nnd
competition and prohlbitory tariffs, you may
rest In peace that nothing, save civil conten-
ton and national catastrophe can prevent
you from holding the markets OF the world.
What q contrast Is the farming within
your boundary with that OF other lands.
First, you s~ubjugate the prairie, which Is
stoneless and tree.ess. You break the sod,
you utilize the grass roots, you backset them.
Your fallows enrich the soil. Another spring
cones, you piow them deeply, and you har-
row. Your press DRILLS SOW the seed, the sun
shines and embro!ders the face OF fields IN
emerald. Then your golden harvest comes
with its cutting and binding. The thrashing
follows. You have swinging stackers for the
straw, and you have bundle teams, and bulk
wagons and elevators and, 10! the land re-
turns manifold to you In the priceless reward
OF the well spent husbandry.
TIMBER LANDS.
Mature has provided upon your east and
north forests OF timber, and waters to bear Il
through the gateway OF your territory.
Though still held In reserve these timber
lands, containing 10, 900, 0C0,t00 feet Of pine,
OAK, ash and elm, will soon become the alder
OF your varied industi.s.
The laws applicable 10 your land, as well
as tue rttinements Of machinery, have en-
ab!ed the settler 10 establish himself with
house, barn and farm and all the implements
bclonging 10 agriculture with a comfort. sta
biiity and success never before vouchsafed TO
any people, and never before realized with so
much prombtitute.
~CuARACrEKg or THE pEopLE AND THEIR IN
DUsTRY.
Your population Is thrifty and active. It's
employment is not tuilt upon the opportuni-
tipg and chances II htoh b.lnp.r 20 ,,Irgu., 81
together, nor is 1t subject TO the vicissitudes
and temptations OF trade and commerce.
Your wealth is drawn from the generous
bosom OF nature. The results OF your har-
vests have attracted millions of capital TO
your manufacturing and transportation cen
ters. Your foundries and factories, homes
ana churches, schools and colleges, indicate
The determined character OF your p.ople.
They vindicate the policy Of freedom which,
under favoring conditions, enables your
amos to be settled and your mines to tie
worked. Your prosperity Is not the result OF
booming" nor are your railroads altogether
built upon the bounties OF toe government.
iour prosperity is stable, because 1t 10 not
feverish or erUptive, but fixed as the princi.
pies upon which our institutions are based.
II there IS anything locally injurious, you
VIII rectfv n nv the machinery OF a D9rul,r
Stale Government. IL there is anything a.c.-
ing aud temporary, YOU viii soon have that
maturity and agency which can legi.la,e, not
Tor a day, bat for all time. Already you can
feel the ,hrob of your W body polite as it
begins to pulsate today at Sioux Falls.
MINING.
Turn your eyes TO TIE Black HILLS of The
west. The record started with over four
millions a year Of gold and silver In 1881. II
soon became a steady product. According 10
Mr.. Days latest ~returne, 1t has continued az
about three millions v%early. In the last wear
II was esti at e, 900, 900. This Is we'll
Tor a new community, In our yearly product
Of $50 ,351 900. Since the working OF your
mines. more than S3J, coo, 900 have been the
result. La their gloomy chambers lie mineral
riches, as yet uncatalogued and uncounted.
lney are awaiting your magic lamp and the
open sesame OF coming enterprise. Out will
conc gold, silver, iron, tir, mica and coal 70
diversity your Industry, gladden. the heart Of
labor, and inspire civic pI1e and Il 'gntty.
VIEW STATE AND ~ PEOPLE.
"a casual observer will notice that yo,.l
people are, on the average, young. A decade
makes a veteran settler, among them. The,
have an exultant bearing which belongs 10 I
youthful state. They ere honest. Thei'
| ethics are ar square as their sections of land.
Your morality is foundt Il on TIE right angle,
OF justice. Happily, you have escaped tn
troubles OF older communities, Ike those O,
tie south. You have no color line. You arc
co4Or blind. You have no race Questions FOL
ycur interests are homogeneous. Only you
sail Is black. It's color is liked as well a,
fruitful. The face OK your territory is a vas
picture, lighted and shaded as tie season.
coma and go, by those alterations which
give to nature activity and rest, ,diorescenc
and .1uitage, seed time and harvest and t
labor its reward. 1t this summer time. III,
green and gold Of tie fields under year beau
tiful shy make a landscape which plszses Ia,
taste aud gratifies the pride.
COMPOSITES PEOPLE.
Your settlements have the varied aspec
which bAong TO many races. You hare her,
the best enterprise O. Scandinavia, Russia
Germany Great Britain and ireland, ant
our W eastern and Border states. The,
Will attr Vet other peoples no less worthy
who will enhance your 7alues and contrtbui,
10 your growth. In the northern part OF tn,
territory ycG have the pcAte Freuchmaa ,, ever
though ne be a half breed, as rcady for
trade as mis- ancestors. fou have the Ser
man, as thrifty nere az at home, and here
with a full Aedged Wittenagemote, and tn,
women for counsellors. You have Far s
descendant OF the scalds Of Iceland, whust
ancestry repeated the Sagas, aud had their
open aired thing, or parliament. You have
the Russian as a citizen, feed from 1arism
enjoying his local zemstyo. You have The
Geit Ievelling Ia the full fruition o; ina,
NOME RUE Wnfc0 he SOlEHs IL Valrtin Ire
land and with him In the full liberty 81 con.
science are the CathOlis 20 Of Belgium and
France. You have the Norseman, who |.
now so mild q hammered man that no Que
woald ever suspect that his ancestor was 8
viking and a pirate. Finally, you rave or
both sides OF the Missouri sometimes sheoret
icai3y on, and generally and practically OF
the reservations, I~rdiars, who, vixen the,
so determine cannot speak "A word ex
cept In heir own tongue; some OF
wbgn are said to dress 50 finely
THAI they can excel the ludes of Broadway
and give them 'tnree points In Il cir blan,
krt.' In fine, you have a composite Of al
the races and their vario1s languages and In
situations. They here harmonic under full
liberation, n0twithstanii Hing they have no,
acquired the Volapuk, as a medium.
Tradition A:SO POETRY.
1.-The stories and traditions f-om whlcf
poetry ia derived-'ts very argumcnt-abourG
throughout YOUR territory, from DEVIL Lake
with its wonderful snake, TO toe shadow,
giants which once guarded The Black Hlit
rom human intrusion. Wherever forests
grew, there Is fcunG the weird 'sncestra,
tree In whose boughs the dead Indians ar,
sepulchred, entombed like the coffin OF tn,
Arab camel driver, between earth ant
Leaveu.
Your Missouri is Itself a flowing epic. A,
the early explorers found It difficult 10 com
promise in any general descrs Jtion the char
"a ~erist,cs of the Missouri-ss extensive anf
fed by so many streams which lave thei
sDurcps In a great variety q soils and oil