The Sully County watchman. (Clifton, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1894, 1893-01-13
OUR STATE BUILDING.
South Dakota Will Surprise All
Competitors, Says the
Inter-Ocean.
Appropriations from the Legis-
lature Confidently Looked
FOr---ReSOurces.

The location of the South Dakota
building at the park ois one of the
very best and most prominent State
sites on the ground, says the Chicago
Inter Ocean, the building being the
first to arrest attention on the south
side of the Fifty-seventh street en-
trance. The building is 7Ox13O feet,
two stories high, each story fourteen
feet. The interior arrangements
show the practical wisdom of the
commission in combining home COM
forts with elaborate facilities FOR
exhibits. Fourteen Of the principal
cities of the state will be memorial
lied in as many beautiful cathedral
windows. 1t is thoroughly South
Dakota structure, and every citizen
of the state can say with true pride,
sour building" Every nail has been
driven by South Dakota muscle. The
outside has been finished in Yankton
Portland cement, product of the
state, and makes very interesting
and attractive appearance.
Very little is really known of South
Dakota and it's resources. The state
is generally regarded by strangers as
vast and uninteresting prairie, with
agricultural products only. This is a
mistaken idea. Few states equal it's
physical variety. Its peculiar won
ders are unmatched anywhere.
The exhibit to be made will repre-
sent the physical divisions of the
state-the agricultural country and
artesian basin east of the Missouri
River; the grazing fields, fossil beds
and mines west of the Missouri.
There is collected and stored at
Sioux Falls (the central station foI
the agricultural exhibit) great
variety of grasses, grains, ETC., which
are now being carefully sorted and
repacked. In this collection there
are 130 different kinds of wheat, 12s
of oats twenty-five of barley, three OF
rye, two of flax, twenty-six of corn
one of buckwheat, three of clover
seed, four Of millet, four of peas, SIX
of beans and 125 of native grasses
One variety of grass, the pampus, is
often found measuring more than
thirty feet in height. In this the
Indians take refuge when pursued by
their enemies the soldiers, and in
so doing have often eyaded arrest OF
death.
In horticulture there will be IN
varieties of apples, twenty of pears
one of peaches, ten of crabs, fifteen OF
grapes, twelve of plums, ten of cher
ries, eight of currants, four of goose
berries, six of raspberries, four O:
blackberries and twenty of strawber
ries. The growth of these fruits viii
surely dispel many erroneous ideas as
to the climate OF the state.
The mineral exhibit will surpris
many. The following is a partial lis
of the minerals which will be seen il
the South Dakota exhibit: Gold, sill
yer, tin, copper, nickel, asbestos, gyp
sum, lead, iron. coal, manganese
mica, marble, Sioux quartzsite, sane
stone, lime, fire-clay and many others
The telltale fossils from the fossil
beds of the Cheyenne and other river
will be of great interest. In no othe
/ place have been found such remains
and scientists are already inquirin.
whether the state will have ful
exhibit of these wonders. Here, also
the practical business man will tin'
an opportunity for Investigations no
excelled by any other section Of tn
state. The deposits of clay, sand ant
coal offer great opportunities to man
ufacturers of such wares as brick
tiles, terra Gotta, porcelain and glass
The earthenware Tor queensware
manufacturers of England hay
already investigated this section an
as a result have purchased large quar-
titles Of land which were considerc,
by many entirely worthless. Witt
the connection of such railroads a
are already surveyed, thissection vii
; soon be filled with manufactures tina
will build up cities and make this on
of the leading industries of the grea
West. Samples Of raw material an
manufactured articles will be on exh
, bition and prove Of much interest.
Prof. Haines, with his studio ca
has been in the employ OF the Sout