Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1892-12-29
HER ATTRACTIONS.
South Dakota Shown Up ii
Her True Lfght---Many
Attractions.
The People, The Climate. The
Soil, And Many Other
Advantages.

Soil, And Many Other
Advantages.
AT present there is no state in the
union which offers so great attract.
ions to immigration and capital as
South Dakota. She is in her
infancy. The great expansion which
has lifted Wisconsin and Illinois and
Minnesota and Iowa and Kansas and
Nebraska into high positions among
the states has not yet reached her.
Her vast and varied resources arc
undeveloped. But the time of her
rapid progress is very near. In the
thickly populated eastern states there
arc thousands of farmers who are
unable to procure homes for them
selves and their families because of
the high price placed upon the land
in those states. From fifty to one
hundred dollars an acre is asked for
farm lands that under favorable con-
ditions only produce from ten to
twenty dollars per acre. Farms are
rented for five or six dollars per acre
and the renter must work hard and
live most economically in order to
support his family, and so has but
small hopes of ever owning his place.
The consequence is that many are
looking for homes in locality where
the conditions are favorable for his
eventually owning it. The attention
OF home seekers has time and again
been called to South Dakota as a
religion possessing superior advan-
tages to the industrious and frugal
man. Here we have soil which
properly cultivated yields rich
returns. The climate is of that kind
which puts snap and vigor into d
man and enables him to do an
amount of work that a Southerner
would deem impossible. The winters
are much more pleasant than those
of New York. Vermont, Maine or
New Hampshire. and the percentage
of sunshine is nearly double in those
states mentioned. The air is dry
and pure and the cold is not felt so
severely as in the damp, musky
eastern states. The temperature in
summer does not go so high that it
compelS worker to seek the shade,
and cool refreshing breeze makes
the hottest day delightful. IN the
spring it is a special pleasure to
wander over the beautiful, undulat-
ing p.airies, carpeted with soft.
green grass from which peep dainty
wild flowers. Farm lands can still
be purchased at reasonable rates and
on good terms. An energetic man
with few hundred dollars can in Il
few years secure himself home and
independence. There has been no
other section of the Euited States
mentioned where the profits of
farmers are as great as has been in
South Dakota. There are well known
instances of where one crop has paid
for the land and expense Of living.
thus giving a farmer a home for one
years work and furnishing him and
his family a living. True it is that
all are not so successful, neither
does every year yield a phenomena!
crop. But taken all in all the
average returns are marvelously good.
South Dakota is a very healthy
country. We have sickness and
death. but sickness is the exception
and not the rule, and it is safe to say
we have less sickness in proportion to
the population than any section of
Illinois. Indiana or ever Iowa. South
Dakota can give you health: in
return tor your labor it will give
you home: prosperity follows
health and home. Come to South
Dakota.