The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1890-07-25
CAPITAL COMMENT.
CONTRIBUTED.

CONTRIBUTED.
One of the most active local workers
Tor Huron comedies that Pierre will
get lt,WO majority west of the Nilsson.
ri. but claims that Huron will over
come it on this side. Last year Pierre
got over 2l,O ,OOO votes east of the river
anu titlr"n Il little short of $1,000. To
overcome this majs,ri,y, then, Huron
must hold her vote of last year, aid
add to 1t oyer 5000 of the $4,000 which
the other towns received east of the
Missouri. In other worls, Huron
must increase her last years vote over
100 per cent. Can she do it?
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Chamberlain's sole hope of becoming
an important town lies in the devel-
opment of the reservation. Huron's
chief argument these days against the
location of the capital on the Missouri
Is that the country west of the river
will never amount to much. And yet
there are Huron men in Chamberlain,
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Mitchell'has an opportunity to be-
come the best town in the Jim river
valley. The past few seasons have
demonstrated the fact that she is in
the heart of the sure-crop country.
She has also chance to remain where
she is and play second fiddle to Sioux
Falls, Aberdeen and Yankton, to say
nothing of Huron. To assure the
first position, her people have only to
let we'll enough alone, stand by their
record in the past, and take no chances
on the capital location. To make Ger
tain the second state of things, help to
locate the permanent capital at Huron,
which will then become the diverging
point for railroads, which will then dl-
vert trade from Mitchell's territory,
which will then overshadow US in
every direction. You may be told that
this is a narrow view to take of the
situation and all that, but results will
bear out this statement.
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What developed ednorthwestern Iowa
and southwestern Minnesota but the
settlement of northern Nebraska and
southern Dakota? Why, then, aid
scheme which has as its object to re-
tard the development Of every section
of the state west of the Jim river val
ley? Don't be misled by comparisons
with other states where the conditions
surrounding capital location were
wholly dissim;lar to those existing
here, but take the map and the history
of this country and study it out for
yourself.
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Huron advocates tell us the location
of the capital at Pierre will do nothing
to advance settlement and enhance the
value of farm lands in that section.
Then they turn around and tell the
farmers in their own vicinity that to
put the capital at Huron is to incress
the value of their land very materially.
This is another Of their boomerang
double-headers. The fact is that any,
thing which benefits that part of the
state west of us benefits us as we'll for
the whole drift of settlement and COM
merce is on easterly and westerly lines.
Why is it Sioux Falls is pushing her
Midland Pacific to the river2 Why is
it Yankton has long had survey up
the Missouri valley? Why is 1t Aber-
deem and Watertown and even Huron
ere reaching with their prospective
railroads to the west and southwest?
Why is it the Omaha system built in
to Mitchell if 1t did not have in view
ultimate extension in these same gen
eral directions? And yet we are asked
to believe, in view of all this, that west
of the jim river valley there is to be no
development or growth, and that be-
cause the temporary conTenience of
the people of the state might possibly
be better subseryed by the means the
capital should be fixed at Huron for
all time. II, w. w.
FavOrs Reciprocity.
A Washington dispatch of the 18th,