Wessington Springs herald. (Wessington Springs, Aurora County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1891, 1890-10-17
Prof. Isailey's Lecture,
Conklin's Dakottnn.

Inc lecture OF Prof. BAILEY, al GOSs
opera house. on Wednesday evening,
was loaded with nuggets Of informa-
tion and jewels of description of the
wonderland west of us known as the
Black Hills. Our citizens present,
who like large portion of South Da-
kOtianS, have not visited the Hills,
and therefore have but vague concep-
tion of the direct interest we are all to
have in the commerce of the Hills in a
few years, learned much of the posi-
bilities aud probabilities of that mar
velous country; learned not only of
the wealth in gold, silver, tin, mica.
and other minerals Astounding in rich
profusion throughout a belt of Hills
l50 miles long by from. thirty-tive to
fifty miles in width, but of its marble
and sandstone quarries, SURPRISING in
beauty any in the world, and of its ex-
haustless bed of gypsum Gland plas-
teri which will be needed In the near
future to fertilize the agricultural
lands of South Dakota, and of the In
exhaustible mines of pure bituminous
coal equal to the best Ohio camel
coal. He also told us of the oil fields
OF Wyoming, adjoining the Hills,
where are deposits of petroleum suffi-
Gent to light the world for century.
1t was manifest to his hearers as tits
to all who have personally visited and
examined that country, that it is soon
to play marvellous part in the COM
mercial and industrial greatness of
South Dakota. In few years hun
dreds of thousands of men will find
profitable employment in the varied
industries that have already been test
ed and found so profitable that capital
from every nation is seeking invest
ment there, and South Dakota farm
mers will find at their very door mar
ket for their butter, eggs, cheese and
their cereals AS soon as railroads
cross the reservation and reach the
coal fields, we shall have the best of
coal for from three to four dollars per
ton, sandstone, marble and land plas-
ter will be cheap, because of abund-
ance and short haul to reach us. That
portion of South Dakota lying west of
the Missouri river will in compare
lively few years surpass in actua
wealth the east side.
Tho ;n1,,o< v;oc <hpco hills ro |
not to find an outlet away south and
east through Nebraska: every man of
sense knows it, and every honest man
will admit it. Already the three
great railway systems, the Northern
Pacific, the Chicago & Northwestern,
and the Chicago. Milwaukee & st.
Paul, are preparing to cross the reser-
walton to the Hills in order to get
their share of the immense business
its industries will soCn furnish.
Following the railroads will come
the people by thousands and tens of
thousands, who will occupy the lands
of the reservation until every acre is
absorbed. The people from Big Stone
City to Aberdeen, and west to the
Missouri river and all north of that
road who can have by the new road
from Aberdeen to Pierre direct COM
munication to the Hills, and to all the
new towns and cities that will grow
up on the route, are specially interest
ed in having the capital located at
Pierre, that it may be taken in on the
way to and from the Hills, in all the
years to come. This is also true of the
people along the line of the North
western road from Gary to Faulkton
where they will connect with the new
Aberdeen line for Pierre and the Hills.
Farmers, do not forget, you who are to
live on either of these direct lines to
the Hills, over which for all time is to
flow a tide OF travel and commerce in
which you and your posterity will ever
have an active business and CONNER
cial interest, that If the permanent
capital is at Pierre, the geographical
center of this great state. all of which
is good, in going to or returning from
the Hills you can always pass through
the capital of your state and stop off
for business or pleasure, whereas none
of you along of or north ofor tributary
to the railroad lines we have mention
ed will have any business to take you
to Huron, except it be with the state,
for which you must make special
trip always. Your lines of travel will
be east or west as by railway the main
travel of the people of the western
states has been ever since railways
have been introduced. "Westward
the star of empire takes its way" and
so with travel.
From Cakes to Pierre.
Faulk County Times.
The corps eft engineers now at work
setting grade stakes on the P. s. B. H.
R'y. line are camped at DR.. Went