St. Paul daily globe., 1889-05-23
DAKO A
WHAT May Be BEYOND
The Chamberlain Vision Takes
in the Great Missouri
Valley.
The Sioux Reservation Soon
to Be Open to Set
tlement.
The Black Hills With Mild
Climate and Vast
Riches.
The Center of One of the
GrandeSt of a State
Quartette.
Special to the Globe.

Special to the Globe.
CHAMBERLAIN, S. D., May 22.-FOur
great states lie side by side. Kansas.
Nebraska, South Dakota. and North Da-
kota. Which will be the greatest in
wealth and population, and why? The
bare an | rainleSs prairieS OF Western
Kansas and Nebraska are what were
named the great American desert. The
Bad Lands of Western North Dakota in
the vicinity of the Little Missouri, are
famous for tourists, but of little, value
to the farmer and worthless to the
miner. No forests of pine timber COW
er the mountains or plains of the west
ern portion of Kansas or Nebraska. No
gold CLEANS in dim defiles and deep
gorges in either of the other three great
commonwealth. No silver is there
piled in mountain heights awaiting
only the smelter and the workman. Not
so with Western South DakOta-tenS OF
thousands of acres of untouched pine
lands are west of the Missouri; tail trees
that make lumber good for all purposes
for which pine is used, the gateway of
which is directly through Chamberlain.
We produce annually S6,000,000 of gold
and silver and are only down in half
dozen places, while hundreds of veins
as good as those now worked have been
uncovered; and our rich refractory ore
yet remains practically untouched.
Western South Dakota is less known
and less written about than any other
important section of the United States.
When immigration poured into Eastern
Dakota and settled the famous Sioux
and jim River valleys and poured over
into the great
VALLEY OF THE MISSOURI
1t became the wonder of the new North
west. The treeless prairies of the wa
terless counties we're food for the
croaker, and scared away many timid
soul, who said II would not have the
countrys as gift" and went East to
tell what fools there were out West.
But the hardy pioneer unlOaded his
wagon. plOWed his soil, SOWed his crops
and reaped harvest that astonished
the world, and gave the lie direct to all
the evil prophets. and put to rout all
the dispensers of misfortune and disas-
ter. We make now the statement, after
a careful acquaintance with the soil,
c1llllGlS dllSt WdtC1, tndO tilC SOll 10 UOVUOA
west of the Missouri than east, and we
will leave it to the future and the farmer
to come, to verify the statement. The
water is more plentiful and the climate
more mild and salubrious the nearer
the mountains you go. The general
average difference in favor of Rapid
City over points in Eastern Dakota is
shown by the records of the signal serv-
ice to be from IL to- Is deg. and often
more. The temperature mOderating
from points in Northern Iowa and
South ern Minnesota to the Black Hills
at the rate of about 5 deg. for every
100 miles, and beyond doubt the future
population west of the Missouri will be
much greater than that east. The great
mineral, as well as agricultural wealth,
west of the Missouri answers the ques-
ton of why South Dakota will be the
greatest state in the Missouri and Mis-
Sissippi valleys.
PINE LUMBER.
The pine timber belt commences at
the junction of the south fork of White
river with the main stream, about sixty
five miles west OF Chamberlain; it is
here in sufficient quantities to supply
the local demand, while the great for
ests lie just beyond in the famous Black
Hills-township after township of
splendid pine timber. The laws of the
United States provide that this timber
inhabitants of Dakota-Only for domes-
tic, agricultural or mineral purposes;
it is on mineral land and cannot be pre-
empted, homesteaded OF entered in any
way by residence or cash entry. Every
person in Eastern or Western Dakota
can enter upon these lands and
cut all he needs for his own
use. haul it to the saw mill, or hire it
done, and get enough to build his house
and barn and fence his farm, and all it
will cost him is his work and the freight
OH the railroad home, and no man can
say him nay. Not one foot of this lum-
ber can be shipped out of Dakota with
out violating the law. The price of
the Sioux reservation will be reduced at
least 81 thousand at once, and every
farmer or club of farmers can be their
own lumber dealers, and if the farmer
does not want to pay for the saving in
cash, he can give part of the logs; that
is. get it sawed oD shares. That we have
extensive pineries in Dakota at the
doors of Chamberlain, and sufficient to
supply all Eastern Dakota with lumber,
may to some sem strange, but it is true.
WATER SUPPLY.
The White river, Medicine river, Bad
river, and the Cheyenne, with the
small streams tributary thereto, furnish
not only plenty of water; but, especially
on the White river, numerous mill sites,
with abundance of water power. to say
nothing of the wonderful water powers
of the Black Hills, tell the story of the
water supply.
THE COAL BELT
i -
Der belt at the mouth of the South fork
of White river. the extent in the reser-
vatiOn not being known, but it is posi-
lively known to exist in sufficient guam
titles to pay for mining; but the coal
supply that has actually been developed
and known to exist in unlimited guam
titles is IN the Black Hills in Red can
yon, and at Hay creek. At Hav
creek the OutcrOp has been fol-
lowed in for over 800 feet, and
the vein is indeed a grand sight to
coal miner; six feet and half of black
diamonds: as good coal as can be found
OF Ignite variety. 1t is better for do
mestic purposes than Iowa coal; it
burns to a white ash and leaves no
clinkers. 1t is the fuel for Dakota, and
third VI one-half when connection is
made through Chamberlain with these
coal fields.
STONE AND BUILDING MATERIAL.
Buffalo Gap and Rapid City produce
the finest building stone of all colors on
the American continent. thoroughly
tested and now established in the mar
ket. Clay for red and white brick, not
even equaled in Milwaukee OF st.
Louis, is in abundance at Rapid City
and other points, and produces brick
nodded and polished beyond oompeti-
ton. Marble end gypsum abound, and
west OF the Missouri in Dakota is the