St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1889-04-13
Booming Right Along in the
Even Tenor of Her Glow
ing Way,
Making No War Upon Any of
Her Rivals in the Cap
ital Fight.
Aberdeen and Yankton See
the Policy Of Coming
to Pierre.
The Black Hills United in
Her Support as Their Eli
gible Point.

Special to the Globe.
PIERRE, S. D., April 12.-Pierre is
getting there, and no mistake. She is
pursuing the even and steady tenor Of
her way, letting her enemies howl, and
making friends at every turn. She is
booming right along i'll a manner she
never doomed before, and every day
sees this self-same boom make new
strides and advances all along the line
in the way it should 90. Her rivals
may be playing their batteries on Pierre
to the exclusion of all else, but Pierre
cares not. She is not making any fight,
or attempting to tear down and build
up on the runs OF other towns, as
seems to be a fashion among the other
capital aspirants. No; Pierre is run
ming on her merits, simple and pure,
and knows from all indications she
WILL WIN THE RACE.
The boom is developing into some
thing more than real estate furry. 1t
has witnessed the institution of scores
of new and valuable enterprises the
city over the past week or two. The
store-rOoms and buildings that have re-
NAMED vacant and idle for years are
now filled by business of every descrip-
ton, and there is an increasing and con-
slant demand for more. To meet this
demand new blocks and places of bust
ness are being projected, and many are
now on the road to completion. Mer-
chants, artisans, strangers, and profess
sional men have heard of Pierre from
afar, and are coming here to look around
and locate, buy property, and invest
their good money. Pierre has had no
reaction in the least, and it is cheered
on by the consciousness that the
showing now made will continue and
increase as the months go by.
The city council, board of education,
and board of trade OF Pierre have been
doing the hardest work in her behalf,
and with tireless energy they cOntin ne
TO make things hum.
Herein lies one great secret of her
boom. The council is extending the
water mains and sidewalks to many
parts of the city, grading the streets
and ordering Other~slnlpr0ye-
plents in this line, that gives the
things are decidedly not dead. neither
are they sleeping. They have called
elections to bond for large public
park, besides the erection of substan-
tial schoolhouses in the different wards.
| AprOpos to this, it might be mentioned
t that Pierre has been careful IN the past,
and is now free from any bonded in
| debtednesS whatever, with q large cash
! surplus III the treasury, and has re-
| served the use of bonds until her good
things were in sight. Therefore no OPP
| position has developed against the
! building of schools, and the use of the
city's credit to further her needs at the
| present time. Electric lights and
| n,onyy nthar nnfarnricaS of similar
! kind are going on. In fact, the push
| ing, driving energy that has made all
| good cities in the West in the past is on
| top in Pierre, and is getting
| HIGHER AND FASTER
| as the days go by. This week there Wis
| tied Pierre the special train of the
| Northwestern road, containing a num-
Der of the principal officers and digni
| taries of the company, and their visit.
/ though brief, meant more than is reas-
oDably supposed. They inspected the
| river frontage at the steamboat landing,
| where this road has franchise granted
| from the government to build bridge
| across the river, went over the lands
/ now owned by them in some of the best
portions of the city, and seemed to take
a general view of the boom and its en-
| bellishments. Mr.. Whitman, the gen.
| eral manager of the Northwestern SyS-
| tenn, who was one of those present, be-
| ing asked by some one what were his
| views on Pierre in her capital race, re-
| piled that from his observations, if the
vote was had that day Pierre
WOULD CERTAINLY WIN
over all competitors by two to one.
Pierre knows she is far ahead for the
capital and is growing in grace before
the people as time wears on. 70 those
| who look to fUturity in the Well-being
of the coming state of South Dakota, nc
| other city can impress them as Pierre
| does for a suitable and central capital
| will show. within several miles of the
| geographical center of the new state,
| on one of the mighty streams OF the
| continent, where commerce and traffic
/ will naturally center in any event. She
can boast of one of the finest sites for q
| city that nature ever made, and river
crossing that has not all equal along the
| course of the Missouri, in its several
| thousand miles of length. She sees be
fore her the opening to 11,000 acres Of
| the great Sioux reservation. wherein
1 lies some of the richest mineral. agri
! cultural and Stock-growing wealth OF
/ the continent, and to which she can, il
/ the nature of things, become the only
| distributing point, for Pierre is in the
central spot on the eastern
4 BORDER OF THIS LAND.
1 and its trade is sure to come to hel
| whether it would or not. Pierre knows
her fight for the capital is made. anC
| made to the finish. The Black Hills
| with 10000 votes or more is assured
beyond doubt. in solid way. becau sc
the Hills recognize the injudiciOusness
! of splitting her strength between
Chamberlain and Pierre, and is going
for the one that proved the strongest
in the past, and that was Pierre, fOl
Pierre can fill the bill.
Again, the country to the North and
| living about Aberdeen, is practically fol
Pierre in the event that that aspiring
and gO-ahead city does not enter The
| ring, and with fOrewarned wisdom
| Aberdeen will stay out and throw hel
strength for Pierre, for she sees il
this her safest course for many reasons
| Under the same principle, Yankton ant
1.-the influence she controls Throughout
the Southeast is going in the same line
Fwhile Sioux Falls, though now il
I the fight, will develop strong supper
for PIERRE whether Sioux Falls so will
or not. Pierre stands away out by her
/ self. beyond the conflict among the cit
| les i'm the eastern part of the new state
and her prosperity and greatness is ia
enough removed from them to i'll Il,
| wise Interfere in the event she become
the capital. This gives her great pres
tige with places that do not care to Sc