New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-04-21


was not attempted The settlers were too well
prepared for IL. This was the last Indian trouble
in Dakota, and now that the redskins have grown
civilized and lazy they would as soon think of
working as Oh fighting. The Government gives
them all they can gorge and wear, and they hive
the idle, shiftless filthy life that Is the only thing
for self-mprovement.
With its age Ysnlrton has acquired q conserva-
tism in strange contrast TO the rest of Dakota.
Its people look with suspicion upon booms."
Some restless folks from Sioux Falls have been
recently buying up Yankton real estate at great
rate paying 900 and $4,000 for lots Of forty
acres on the edge of the town, and taking all they
can get Suchspeculations would set other towns
crazy, and real estate options would 6y around
from hand to hand so fast you couldn't keep track
Of them. But the Yankton people, while much in
terested, do not get excited. They bank for thetc
future upon their natural advantages, and not
upon temporary spurts in the town-lot market.
None of these advantages is so much talked
about as the subterranean lake from which the
city draws its water and its motive power. II
has been practically demonstrated that at o
depth of from 5000 1900 feet directly under
the city there exists an immense body Of water,
Mountains. It is not merely a stream such as is
often found in this country under bed rock. II
must be lake, for tapped at fifteen different
points it rushes forth with tremendous power,
chemically the same everywhere, and without
being weakened either In force or in supply
no matter where nor how often il is tapped.
The city obtains all its water through artesian
we'll sunk TO depth of about 600 feet. Two
reservoirs holding 100000 gallons each have been
built on bluff, and into them six-inch pipe
delivers the stream. This entire apparatus cost
the city $4,000, and for that picayune sum they
get all the water they or twice their number
can possibly use. There is no machinery TO get out
of order, and no use for Waterman or engineer.
The entire thing consists Of shaft OF iron pipe
and a couple Of tubs It never fails to operate.
But there it runs night and day, and there 1t
must run forever. No wonder YanlztOn, with her
1000 people, can afford to spend $4,000 for
public school house. Needless 10 say, the water
rent at YanktOn is reasonable.
An immediate stop was put TO the use OF steam
by the discovery Of this novel power. Engines
were laid away to rust sold for what they
would fetch. Fires were put out windmills
locked. People who required motor drilled
a hole in the ground, slid pipe through it. and
let the water turn their wheel and give motion to
their machinery The fire company, sunphed
from the city's reservoirs, found that they could
throw stream over the highest building in town,
and promptly sold their engine 70 q less fortunate
community. The owner OF brick-yord combined
with the company operating the electric lighting
plant, and procured from a siX-inch shaft stream
OF 1000 gallons per minute, with a pressure OF
lifty-siR pounds TO the square inch, or about
35-hQrse power brought into play with turbine
wheel With this costless and exhaustless motor
ut hand manufactures are being rapidly estab-
lshed in Yankton, and with the coming OF the
new railroad lines that are being pushed forward
rapidly; several more are promised.
Two great Western systems the Chicago and
Northwestern and the Chicago, Milwaukee and st.
Paul, already run several daily trains into Yank-
ton, and within the next six months at least
two other lines will arrive. The Manitoba is
now as far on It's way rs Sioux Falls, giving
the points il strikes an air line directly TO the
lakes road in course Of construction from
Norfolk, Nebraska, 10 be completed by August
viii connect with the Union Pacific, and Will
bring 10 Yankton what IL stands greatly in need
OLA bridge over the Missouri. These enter
prses promise rapid development TO the city,
and their assurance has stimulated local improve
ments In an astonishing degree. In these wonder
full Western towns IL only requires the trust
worthy pledge of railroad facilities TO bring
capital and energy together with results that
spring up almost before your very eyes. Much
OF the great work Of development is done with
Eastern money. Agents representing New-fork,
Boston and Philadelphia capitalists are constantly
travelling over the country looking into this or
thatproposed investment and often, II not usually
leaving much money behind them when they go
away This, il is perhaps needful 70 say, is
the only safe way Of investing. The people OF
these new cities are morally n most superior
class, but there are enough rogues among them TO
do them and the East too vast amount OF
harm | am told by trustworthy men that fully
a third of the capital in actual use comes from
the three towns Of New York, Boston and Phila-
delnhia, a fact which OF itself shows how widely
the East Is interested In the progress of the new
States Large sums, however have been lost
through the manipulations OF dishonest men, and
in making the caution emphatic that persons
contemplating Western investments should come
out and see for themselves where their money
is going am but giving expression 70 the earnest
wish OF the reputable Western men. l.. h. Q.
III.