Sturgis advertiser. (Sturgis, Dakota [S.D.]) 1887-1???, 1890-06-12

S15, 900; three large hotels, one national
bank with cash capital of $4,000, and
and citizens bank, having an author
lied capital of S25O,OOO; 5O-barrel -four
ing mill, turning out the best -four man
ufactured in the West; stucco and
plaster mill, turning out hundreds of tons
of the above mentioned articles of COM
merce; planning mills, feed mills, lumber
yards, nearly hundred mercantile es-
Establishments and trades represented, two
newspapers, the STURGIs ADVERTISER and
the Sturgis Record; Masonic, Odd Eel
lows, Knights of Pythias, Ancient Order
of United Workmen, Modern Woodmen
and Grand Army of the Republic socie-
ties; the headquarters Of the Meade
county Farmers Alliance; daily mails in
all directions; direct telegraph and tele-
phone connection with all towns and
cities of the Hills and the outside world;
the control of the immense trade OF Fort
Meade and the thickly settled farming
community beyond it; the finest and best
equipped fire department in the Hills,
including hose and hook and ladder
companies with the latest improved and
best paraphernalia, and a first-class
steamer; hack lines to Deadwood and
Fort Meade, and, best of all, debt of
less than $4,000, $4,000 of which is
bonded for twenty years at Z per cent?
against an assessed valuation of nearly
100000.
| Additional improvements to be under
taken in the near future are: The con-
struction of motor line to Fort Meade,
for the transportation of passengers and
the immense amount of government
freight used by that post, a bill allowing
right-of-way across the military reserva-
tion now being considered by congress;
the building of narrow-gauge railroad
to Deadwood and the mining camps; the
grading of many residence streets, and
the erection of $4,000 court house.
The above short recapitulation shows
, what Sturgis has done in the past and
what it intends to do in the future. An
unpreiudiced mind cannot but ackmowl-
edge the superior position of Sturgis as
regards the farming community sur.
rounding it, By studying the map OF
, the Black Hills it can be readily seer
r that the facts appearing in the proceed
: ing column are literally true.
I Sturgis occupies the most fatterine
y position as regards the recently opened
reservation, lying but twenty-five miles
: from that recently ceded territory. 1t il
= nearer the reservation than any othe
s town in the Black Hills, and, as conse
e quence, cannot be equalled as an outfit
Q ting or starting point for all those intend
j. ing to locate in the country lying imme
s diately east of the Cheyenne river. TIL
5. many roads leading eastward from thi
% city to the reservation are all excellen
y and upon them the hauling of heav
h loads is a comparatively easy matter
J. The merchants of this city carry enol
Q. nous stocks of goods and are selling a
10 prices which will not allow them to b
a. undersold by any dealer in the West.
ID The individual, the family or the co
r, ony, seeking place to locate and bull
as for himself, or themselves, a home fe
the future should, if they desire to avoi
in useless travel and needless expense, pu
D. chase tickets to Sturgis, by way OF til
1e Fremont, Elkhorn & Missouri Vale
IN railroad, and supplying themselves wit
ne whatsoever they desire in the way
er groceries, provisions, hardware, clothin
dry goods, farming implements and ute
be sils, make this city their base OF supple
Dis starting from this point to whatsoev
p- location they may prefer. By doing tn
al a great deal of time will be saved as We
ch as money. Remember that all vaca
es- lands in this land district are not on tt
NJ reservation recently opened. There a
oil, thousands of acres lying in Mea
st. county, of which Sturgis is the coun
,ol seat, still awaiting owners, and this lal
ID is just as good as any yet taken up.
gu concluded on Fourth Page,l