The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1894-08-09
South Dakota Short Notes.

THE Sioux Falls Driving Park .A.
ISOLATION finds itself in debt s.. 936 al. a
result of being unable to get a ccd
attendance at the race meetings.
THE pontoon bridge acros the Ms.
souri, at Chamberlain has been placed
in position and is now ready for traffic.
IT was washed out by high water early
in the spring.
IN many parts OF Dakota the severe
drouth has been broken by heavy
rains. two inches of rainfall being re.
ported around NermilliOn, and other
sections having a through drencAing.
THE most successful teachers .Gsti.
tute ever held in that part Of the state
is now in progress at Armour. Ninety.
four teachers are in attendance and ii
j. the intention to have a four week..
session.
THE Fremont, Elkhorn and Missouri
Valley Railroad Company has begun
work preliminary to an eXteislon oi!':
line from Belle Fourche 10 the Hay
Creek coal fields. about twenty mile:
distant. Chief Engineer Berry Is nj
the field with a large corps OF assist
ants. The work of grading the new
line will begin in about a week.
The new monument at the Soldiers
Home al Hot Springs was erected Il
honor of General Logan. The monl'|
ment is cut from the sandstone qaarry|
there, and represents the genera. IN
full uniform. This monument 4
erected by the Monumental AsssoclaI|
ton of the Soldiers Home OF ooutnl
Dakota. and it is its intention to erec1
other monuments to heroes.
The Water Works Company peri
manently shut down its plant at NeF1
million owing to the inability OF tA1
city council and company to agree II
10 the proper compensation. lhi9"~I
cause much Inconvenience to col'auI
ers. who depend entirely upon the ,ag1
ply derived from the plant. Inc tJ
wells and cisterns in town are m0'1yI
dry on account of lack OF ram anu az.
ual hardship will result from the su"
ting down of the works.
POINTS of law involved in the eSd
of the North American Loan and Ira
Company against the Colonial y
United States Mortgage CompahS
Hull. England, are being argueU
Redtield before Hon Thomas o%
ling, referee. The suit was prous.
by the North American Compah!
recover $40, 900 claimed to be que n
fees and commissions earned %nI
managing for several years the oMM ~
ness of the Colonial in this ana o5h
states. The case has been peAu'
for nearly two years.
THE rich strike of refractory ore
Yellow Creek Gulch, one d "1
miles from Lead, created eXcie~
similar to that Of the early days, ID
the ground in the neighborhoou I'd
been staked off and the owners
slider they have a fortune III
The ore assays all the way, from
to $40 a ton in gold, with aoou. 'w 'sor
ounces in silver. Development
has already commenced on sever"
the claims with good results, ~
| should the ore prove lasting p
create considerable of a boom ~.
Hills. especially Lead. The gro'D'
all owned by Lead people. III
SOUTH DAKOTA crops in generhl
not over half as good as they ha, n
be. One is led to believe W. a. b
farmer is more or less to blame i" orsr
crops. An interview with rs
farmers who claim their crops ageJ
right while others fields are aa nsr |
reveals the fact that the ma ri
sowing grain is of important ad
former SOW their grain ueeP ,o}
change the land from wheat biIe II
ground from year to year, wnat
latter simply harrow their I'D al
and the winds dry the GROUND ar
spoil the crop. Reports from cr
state indicate that fully loc}
will be harvested and IN so~'
tiles a full crop.