The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1890-02-07
CHEAP MONEY FOR FARMERS,

Senator COLON recently introduced a
dill providing for making government
loans to farmers, on good real estate
of course, at a very low rate of
lnterest-two to three per cent. The
explained that his connection with
the proposition was by request the
State Grange of Illinois was the guilty
party-while the other senators smiled
with il%l-concealed contempt as the bill was
referred" in the usual way, and that will
be in infinitely worse business than loan
ing money to farmers at three per cent.
1t would surely be better than loaning it
to national banks without any interest.
1t would be infinitely better than spend
ing hundreds of millions to create more
competition for farmers; in short, it is
safe to say that the National Congress does
many things more foolish and unwise than
would be government loans to farmers
Farm Stock and Home.
The plans and specifications of the new
Presbyterian church are here. and the
church will be built the coming summer.
1t will be located on Minnekahta ave nue.,
north of the sanitarium. The building
will be of gothic structure and will be
built of cut stone. The dimensions will be
44x70 feet, with a seating capacity of 1876.
There will be a basement for Sunday
school room and heating purposes. A
tower will rise from the south east corner,
in which, over the vestibule, will be located
the pastors study. The spire will be
Lightweight feet high. The building will
cost about $4,000, and will be a very i'm
posing and beautiful structure.-Hot
Springs Star.
"The railroads got more for carrying
our fruit to market than we got for raising
it," says George A. Sommers. a California
fruit raiser. "The California Fruit union
last year shipped 1000 cars of fruit. The
record of the sale of that fruit shows that
for every dollar received by the grower
the railroad received SLIT" This is iden.
tically the same complaint as is made by
the corn raiser, the wheat raiser and the
cattle raiser.-Queen City Mail.
To know beans has not been regarded
as a very high achievement unless it in.
volved the number in the bag, but the
United States supreme court has recently
decided that beans are sometimes vegeta-
bles and at others simply seeds. In Bos.
ton, of course, they are vegetables, because
they are the principal food. The differ.
ence is in the use made of them.-St. Pau,
Globe.
Several years ago a quantity of wild rice
was sown in a slough near North Platte
Nebraska, to feed wild fowl on their an.
nual migrations. A large quantity of this
grew and spread over a good extent OF
ground. Cattle, horses and hogs are very
fond of it and keep it grazed down, SO that
in this case it has not had much chance to
seed itself.
Saugatuck, Mich, has just produced a
fowl with two hearts, two livers and two
BlZAdiuo. ouuSdtuCh udo dlso kOOSeDerry
bushes in bloom and a new willow twle
with buds on it. Will Saugatuck please
sit down a few minutes and give Mus
kegon, Dowapiac and Saginaw a chance?
Pioneer Press.
sundry irritating ~annoyances continue
to haunt the trails of ambitious repub-
lies, as well as deoayed monarohies. In
adopting the name sUnited States of
BRAZIL" the bone of contention is at once
thrown into the ring whether they fare"
OR sis" united states. Pioneer Press,
The farmers alliance of Clarks, Neb.,
seems to be very enthusiastic and deeply
in earnest. 1t has a membership of about
eighty and the number is increasing each
week. It is reported that they shipped
twenty cars of com from there during the
! month of January.