The Hot Springs star. (Hot Spings [Hot Springs], Dakota [Dakota Territory, i.e. S.D.]) 1886-189?, 1890-07-11
Down on the Cheyenne.

Nh. EpIroR:-Perhaps a few lines
from this locality will he acceptable.
There being no bridge across the
Cheyenne at the mouth Of Fall River,
many of the settlers down here on the
south side were shut off from the hos
pitality, amusement aud original pack
ages at the county seat on the Fourth.
Crop prospects, at this writing are
uncertain. 1t has been too dry and
hot for early potatoes, and oats not in
a very favorable location, have been
considerably injured, but corn is still
alive, and where it is in good ground
and kept clean, it still promises well.
If the great volume Of water that came
down the Cheyenne on the third and
fourth had been distributed eve this
section from the clouds, our thirsty
fields would yield an abundance and
u granger hearts be glad.
AS grangcrs fence in their land,
leaving a margin on the section line
for roads, it causes some quite awk-
ward and unpleasant changes. One
very noticeable instance has lately oc-
CURED on the south side at the Fall
River and Cheyenne crossing.
We heard a neighbor say lately that
a failure to raise a crop of corr this
season would surely put a prairie
schooner on the road next spring.
Why change? Why not learn to util-
ize the advantages we have here?
Like Jacob of old, become pastoral and
live on the increase and products of
our focks and hcards. Why try to
raise the corn crop of the valley in
Egypt on the hills and plains Of Palcs-
tine and Judea? While the corn
raiser is risking sun stroke, toiling in
the dust and heat, we may sit under
a shady tree beside a cool spring or
brook, with plenty of sweet milk and
cold water at hand whcrewith to slack
our thirst and nourish our strength.
This is a goodly land, and its products
and possibilities are immense! Won
derful! Sufficient!
Miss NJ. J.. Dewey, late Pedagogue
at Cascade, arrived in the neighbour
hood on the fifth. She came on a visit
to her old Illinois friends and neigh
bors, the Pomeroys. Miss Dewey is
the daughter Of Hon. S. II. Dewey,
of Grundy county, ILL.,, and came out
here Tor a change of climate. She
finds improvement hero physically and
has taken a claim about half way
between Hot Springs and Cascade, for
the romance of it, we conclude, for we
know there is no financial necessity on
her part. From here she will go to
visit the families of II. ID. Fuller, G.
w. Glow and MIR. Sickels, who came
from the same county in Illinois, and
who are now located GU claims a few
miles southeast of the Gap.
Albert Judd, with some friends and
his "bcst GIRL celebrated at Republic
can Flat.
A case of clear Irish grit and econ
omy is Uncle John Coleman. Instead
of buying u riding cultivator he is
humping his back yer a hoe, trying
to clean the sunfowers and weeds out
of ten acres of very promising corn.
Mr.. Shaver, after digging six dry
holes in the ground, struck a vein and
got a good supply of water in the sew
enth.
If neighbor Atkinson gets good
sound heads on his sixteen hundred
cabbage plants he will probably supply
the Hot Springs market with kraut
next winter.
Theodore Pomerov, an owner and
dealer in lands at Sioux Falls, S. ID.
and also at Escandido, sonthernCalifor
MIA, visited his uncle, H. E. Pomeroy,
and family, on the Cheyenne, not long
since. Although he came unexpected
he was a very welcome guest. He was
much pleased with Hot Springs and
prophesied for that place a grand flu.
ture. He said Hot Springs would
eventually become the Saratoga Of Da.
kota.
The fence around Willard Leach's
corn patch exists only in imagina.
ton and the horses and cattle can't see
it.
Although not as abundant as last
year, still, In favorable localities there
are wild plums, grapes, choke cherries
, and buffalo berries.
In localities where there is much
, shrubbcry or timber the locust makes
the air vocal with the monotonous
whizz of his buzz saw attachment.
Lo, the poor Indian, with sqnaws
papooses, ponies, wagons and teepee
poles. has been quite n%umerously rep.
rnsenfed in fh;s ~socf;on fIie voacon