The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1893-02-25

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falO and Aurora all.
bargains just like it
How long these bt
ging for purchasers
upon the people,
country. That many
been picked up long
about Kimball and in
rectly contributory to
uted more TO the low al
land than to any other e.. .ner
obstacle to the settlement OF acant
lands has been the meddleso. Aterfer-
ence of residents with the OF .ttions of
local real estate men. Ii a local land
dealer has the sand to buy IN option or
equity on u quarter for a little of moth
ing and then find a settler, whose bust
ness is it except the two parties inter-
ested? Ii it is anyone else business that
particular business should be to see that
the deal goes through and one more man
added to the county. II a real estate
man or any other individual has the
nerve to invest $500 or $500 in a quarter
section and can sell the same to an out
slider for 81 ,OO0-0r $1,000 or $lO,OO0-it
adds just that much more wealth to the
county, doesn't it? WHO was it that
brought the immigration to this country
ten years ago this spring2 1t was the
real estate men and printers ink, wasn't
itp Who is it that took the carload OF
Russians through Kimball Tuesday night
and another squad Wednesday night, en-
route for the lands across the river?
Chamberlain real estate hustlers, wasn't
it? II you want these vacant lands
around Kimball to lie there unoccupied
indefinitely and the town itself to be
deader than q tive-year-old Goldfish in a
crossroads grocery store, keep throwing
cold water on our real estate men and
drive away strangers by %lugubrious tales
of the towns business condition and the
low price they can buy land for if they
will steer clear Of the real estate men.
Now. the GRAPHIC isn't interested in
selling real estate, nor interested in the
fortunes of any real estate dealer, any
farther than it is in the prosperity
of every business manaand farmer in the
county. Not q real estate dealer in the
county is n patron of its columns, but it
would be dull indeed'did it not perceive
the advantage to any community Of a
wide-awake real estate hustler, and it is
too hroad-gauged to envy any individual
the accession of wealth, either moder-
atcly OF to the extreme. The trouble
with most communities is that they are
cursed with q coterie of persons who are
so enyious of others success that they
can't sleep nights, So largely does this
enter into their co imposition that they
will try to thwart the e%ndeayors Of others
even though they in no way conli ct
with their own and are too the advantage
Of all. And this reminds lis that it is an
actual fact that when the editor of
the GRAPHIC was engaged in
constructing one OF the nuest residence
properties this side OF Mitchell, the only
encouragement he got was that he was a
"chump for building such a house in
this country"
You don't find that kind Of spirit walk
ing up and down the streets ST Chamber
lain, a ghost to brighten away people, nor
in any.progressiye community. Chamber
lain is a better town to-day than it ever
was in spite of all the drawbacks pecu-
liar to its location and the setbacks the
whole country commended with through a
repeated partial failure of crops. This
because the leading citizens OF the place
have always pulled together for the build
ing up Of tho town, regardless Of indiyid-
ual interests. The minute q stranger
strikes that town they do not inquire
whether q real estate man is going to
make $500 on a piece Of land to be sold
to him. or whether if he is going to To-
cate and do business in town his coming
will make an undesirable competitor,
the idea is to get him anyway, and every
blamed man in the town will appoint
himself a committee of one to see that lie
identifies himself with Chamberlain. In
an early day they did this to down Kim
ball and they have worked it 80 long
that it is followed up on general prin-
:ciples. Nowadays the real estate
hustlers down there are bending their
energies to filling up the reservation
lands tributary Ito Chamberlain, and
when they can't do that, settling them
in the west part Of the county. They do
not hesitate to tell prospective purchase
ers that land in the east half of the
county is not nearly as desirable. and
when said prospective settlers como up
to kimball and are told that they can
get good quarters for $500 or $500 by
looking around" blamed If it doesn't
look as though the land hustlers at the
other end were telling the truth. See?
To get back'to the original subject and
Mr.. Hohson. The prevailing price Of
land in Chas. Mix is $40 an acre-its
worth more,". but that is about the
average price Of wild land. It's dollars
to buttons had the section OF land in
question been priced to Mr.. aobs0n at
SO or 81 an acre lie wouldn't have touch