Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1889-05-04
WHAT sTuRoIs HAS DONE AND WILL DO.

SAMUEL MARTlN,
BLAND HERRING,
CHAS. M. WARD.
WHAT STURGIS HAS DONE AND WILL DO
The town of Sturgis, according to the
assessment roll Of 1888, pays about one
third of the taxes of Meade county.
The town of Sturgis was in great
measure instrumental in securing the
necessary legislation to enable the people
of Meade county to organize their own
county and thereby release themselves
from the exorbitant taxation they have
been subjected TO, and to manage their
own affairs.
TO the enterprise and business energy
OF the merchants of StuFgis the farmers
of Meade county are indebted for good
market for their produce which otherwise
would have been hauled to Deadwood at
an expense in toll alone that would have
been sufficient to purchase the entire
TOWNSHIP Of Tilford with good sized
sheep ranch thrown in.
An institution of learning under the
charge of the sisters is now being erected
in Sturgis that is destined to become one
of the best schools of learning in the
west.
Through the energy and business ca
pacity of Sturgis men railroad connect
ing Deadwoea and the mining camps is
in process, of construction that will make
Sturgissone Of the best markets for pro-
duce, and the chief town of the valleys
at no distant day.
These are a few Of the benefits derived
from the town Of Sturgis by Meade
county. The commercial center of the
county, with population of over fifteen
hundred people, easy Of access, near the
center of population, unrivaled by any
town in the county, Sturgis does not ask
your votes without cause.
In addition to what we have already
done for the county we now bind our
selves to furnish the county free of cost
suitable buildings for county purposes.
We make the additional promise, which
will be fulfilled on our part, to, within
three years, commence the erection of a
court house and jail, worth SIS, 1000, for
the use of the county, without one dollar
being levied upon the county, Sturgis
asks in return that on Tuesday next you
designate by your, votes Sturgis as the
county seat. We ask this because we
believe that our location, our commercial
supremacy, enterprise and prospects of
becoming large and hourishing town
will greatly add net only to our own
prosperity but to the wealth of the
county generally and consequently to the
reduction of taxation.
The property owners and residents of
Sturgis are generally old citizens of the
Black Hills. They came here as
pioneers and made their homes among
you, their interests are identical with
yours.
Our opponent for county honors is
the town of Tilford that bases its claims
for county honors upon upon
I the reader will have to excuse us, we
don't know what it does base its claims
upon
Tilford is located upon land owned by
the Pioneer Town Lot company, that is,
they claim it, but portion of it (and
that portion which they are sanxious to
donate for votes) is still owned by the
United States, and any title which the
town lot company, or others, assume to
give is~ utterly worthless. Tilford has
neither commerce nor enterprise. 1t has
no past history to be proud of and no
future prospect Of which to boast. lii
ford is an enterprise of foreign monopoly,
town without inhabitants, the visionary
foundation of an unrealized dream of
wealth. Will the farmers of Meade
county sacrifice their own interests in an
effort to build up this town in the inter-
ests eta nonresident, nontaxpaying cor
poration?
To Republican Voters.
We would call the attention of all vot-
ers to the fact that the straight republi-