The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1891-08-28
REGENT MPRoyEMrNTs.

4ue COWLllIUoe AppOlnUeO Oy II
board of:trade some time ago to get up
. descriptive pamphlet Of Rapid City
yesterdaysreceived word that the book
was printed and would be shipped at
once. They will be here, it Is expected,
the middle OF the week and the work OF
distributing them will at once COM
mence. To keep pace with Rapid City
at the present time, however, the board
Of trade would be obliged to Issue PAM
phlets at least monthly, for since the
matter Tor this n was prepared sey-
eral things mentioned in it as proba-
bilities have become assured facts and
other enterprises, some not even men
TONED IN it, have been arranged for.
Among the latter may be mentioned the
extensive smelling works, one OF the
largest in the United States, which will
be established and at work within a
year from this date. They will have adj
vantages in the nearness to thecoal and
ore fields not enjoyed by any other
smelling works in the country, and they
alone will add several Thousand people
to the now rapidly increasing popula-
ton Of Rapid City. Other enterprises.
steps to establish which are now being
taken, + a wooden mill, packing house,
and building material company to
supply: the outside trade with common,
pressed and fire brick, building stone,
lime, cement and lumber.
Work is now being pushed on both
the east and west lines Of railroad from
the city. The Dakota, Wyoming and
Missouri. River railroad, which is now
being rapidly built through the richest
part Of the Hills will not, tits authorita-
lively stated, stop at the coal fields in
the western Hills, but will be pushed on
to the coast, thereby making it q trans.
continental line. Work on the Rapid
City, Missouri River and st. Paul road
is progressing as rapidly as could be
desired and within less than a year at
the present rate of progress it will be
carrying the products of the mines, the
ranges and the ranches of the Black
Hills Country and the product OF the
manufactures OF Rapid City, to the
Missouri river, from there to be dis
tributed to all parts Of the country. The
railroad Developments OF the past year
have in fact made the assurance doubly
sure that Rapid City is to be the great
railroad center and distributing point
OF the two Dakotas, Wyoming, western
Nebraska and eastern Montana; and for
that a several railroad systems,
the Northern Pacific, the Burlington
and Missouri. and the Chicago, Milwau-
kee and st. Paul among them, are now
taking the preliminary steps toward
building to this city.
The large brick and stone building OF
the Black Hills Mercantile Company now
nearing completion, and to be used as
an exclusively wholesale grocery house,
and the new Himebaugh & Maryott
elevator are also among the recent en-
terprises carried out since the pamphlet
Of aboye was prepared. The
good crops predicted in it, or which
should have been if they were not, are
now a reality, in ONE parts OF the Hills
being nothing less than phenomenal.
As, however, the Hills have never, since
ranching was commenced III them fifteen
years ago, had a general failure OF crops
the fact of good crops has come to be a
matter OF course; a something to be ex-
pected and often therefore not deemed
worthy OF special notice.