Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1894-02-23

tuo 04plOrAuS party Bp0ut nearly
month, From the highest point Of land,
$50 feet above Black Eagle Fall, on
which now stands smokestack 200 feet
high, as prominent an object as the
Washington monument, the top as high
above the furnaces as that noble shaft,
Lewis and Clarke looked for the first
time over the site Of the present city,
but then temporarily occupied by q
herd Of buffalos, and later, in an en-
counter with q wounded one. Lewis
was chased into the water opposite the
town, where the river Is $500 feet
wide, and compelled to swim to the
other shore.
A new edition Of sThe History Of the
Explorations Of Lewis and Clarke" has
just been issued under the direction Of
Prof. Elliott Coues, OF the Smithsonian
portant event in our history, and
foot notes. It is dedicated as follows:
showed you the way; The rest z your own
course Of empire: HGn0r the 1s statesman who
iirst saw your West. Nay the memory aS Of their n
glorious achievement be your precious heri-
she II III sonr
According to Eastern ideas of calcu-
lation, this is very young city, but
undeniably 1t is one of the most prom
ising in the West, and is bearing out
the predictions of the explorers, that
an Important Industrial city would
spring up here. The first settler, Hon.
Paris Gibson, an honored and still ac-
tive citizen of the sturdy young giant
with over Il, 600 population, and as en-
thusiastic over the future as ever, with
much now to back up his opinions and
prophecies, broke ground for the first
house about ten years ago. It's growth
was slow until the first railway, the
Great Northern, reached there four
years later. Now railroads reach out
in various directions.
The reader will naturally ino/ ire
what there is in the Northwest to make
great States and cities. Is not this
country in the American desert the
school books used to tell about? Yes.
but the desert has since been chased
hither and thither, until it is now To-
Gated in spots among the lava beds and
high ranges of the far Southwest, and
what there is of it contains borax. salt,
and resources of value to man, and
there is no such thing as the "Great
American Desert"
What made the older States of this
Union wealthy? Pine forests, iron ore
and copper mines supplied the raw
material upon which Northern Michi-
gan, Wisconsin and Minnesota was
built. Coal, iron and oil made Penn
sylvania great. Corn and hogs brought
riches to Iowa and Illinois. An extract
of corn and rye distinguishes Ken
lucky. Wheat has given prominence
to Minnesota and the Dakotas, and SO
on through the list.
Montana is a new State, and but lit
tie known, except as a grazing region
and producer of precious metals.
%, ,000, 600 worth. Herds of cattle and
focks of sheep are brought into this
State from the country south, as far as
Texas, to fatten on the ranges for
Eastern markets. All the conditions
here, grass, water and climate, are
conducive to the highest development
of physical life. The State produces
horses of large lung power and endur-
ence. much sought after by the War
Department for cavalry purposes.
Budd Doble feeds his horses on Mon
tana hay and oats. 1t was too far west,
90 stockmen said, to raise wheat, but q
roller Touring mill with 500 barrels
daily capacity, located here, is making
high-grade flour from native wheat,
and this immediate locality supports
two agricultural papers.
Those who have not been West have
little idea Of the possibilities and ell
bow room Of State like Montana, q
region larger than all of New England,
and then with country enough left
over to include several Of the Middle
States.
Standing by the tall smoke stack Of
tie copper smelter. we looked down
and cataracts, and saw waters fall with
quick descent, furnishing power to
turn wheels to crush ores, to generate
electricity, to grind -four, to make hot
fires hotter, and agreed with the
builder Of the marvellous wheel at the
Worlds Fair, that where there was
such enormous water power an indus
trial city must arise. The monthly
payroll now exceeds Sl6O,C0O for la
bor, and is to be largely increased.
Tho electrical energy possible at this
point is beyond reasonable compre-
hension.' It is already used in multi
form ways: To refine metals, to rum
machinery and street cars, to cook
food, and for heating purposes.
Five, ranges Of mountains are in
sight, clothed with forests and veined
with precious metals and iron, and val
leys between scanned with beds of coal.
Fertile lands slope back to grassy
plains, where plowmen and stock rais-
ere are already busy. All these potent
and varied resourcesAnrs syithj1 hopnds
sries that m.ke gRED.
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