St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-01-12
WATERFOWL, A GEM CITY,
Which Aspires to Be the Financial Cen
ter of South Dakota as a State.
SOME OF ITS MANY POINTS,
And a Few of the Features That Will
Allure the Capital Build
erS.
Special to the Globe

| Special to the Globe.
WATERFOWL. Jan. II. - The Gem
City, like many Of her sister cities, is
passing through the thrOes of January
| settlements, balancing accounts, etc.
!! that is, her citizens are. Bank meet
| ings, insurance company meetings and
meetings of stockholders of other cor
porate bodies are in order in this busy
financial center of northeastern South
Dakota" The records showing what
has been done during the last year
are open for public inspection. and
the result is very pleasant to the
average WatertOWn man. Not less
than POO residence houses. averaging
$1,000 each, are to-day taxable prop
erty that were a year ago among the
things that were not. A fine hotel, the
finest in Dakota, has been completed at
cost of $4,000. Business blocks, five
in number, containing eighteen new
and commodious store rooms, besides
offices, have become things of beauty
and a joy forever" to our citizens. A
RAPID TRANSIT LINE
to Lake kampeska has been completed,
by which the tired citizen can, during
the summer months, be transported in
ten minutes from the busy marts of
trade and finance to that gem Of inland
seas, Lake Kampeska. where relief
from care can be sought and found.
either by sail on steamer, sail boat
boat Or row boat, or by luXuriant bath,
or by angling for the finny denizens of
the water.
Our water works have been cOmplet-
ed, tested and appreciated. and the mer-
chants sleep in peace o nights, know
ing that the danger Of conhagration is
no more. Take it all in all, the average
Watertown citizen is happy, satisfied
with his own endeavors and with those
of his neghbOrs, and he is laying his
plans to do better still during the com
ing year. Blessings come not Singly,
and as cap stone to our other good
luck comes now a request from some
of our sister cities. not in the Water
town land district. as well as a request
from the cities and towns located there
in, that Watertown must reach out and
secure, by their help,
THE CAPITAL
of the sOor-tO-bc booming state of South
Dakota. Watertown citizens. regard
less of cliqueS. clans, SectS, creedS, po-
litical affiliations, private piques or
public praise: regardless of age, race OF
color, or previous condition of servitude, |
all have joined hands, and have resolved
that they will have the capital. if loca- |!
ton, healthfulness. natural beauty and |
all honorable means will get it. They |
have enlisted for the war, unless soon |
discharged, and with Daught, but |
friendly feelings toward any sister city |
reaching for the same prize, they will |
flight it ont on that line" till the object !
is attained. WATERFOWL has asked moth !
ing in the past. She has been content |
in building up by her own endeavors. |
inducements for the location of the seat |
of state government such as no other |
city can. From the encouragement re-
ceived, from the earnestneSs of her cti-
zens, failure is impossible, and you may |
mark it down in your new hat won from
some poor Democrat last fall that she
will get there.