The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1895-01-10

several pieces brought from $50 TO 80
per acre. Land has also been sold in
Minnehaha. Turner. Lincoln and in
Union counties for $50 and go, and in
Hutchinson county for 81. 30 to $25 per
acre, in 1894.
The legislature OF 1888 appropriated
$1,000 for machinery and material to
begin the manufacture Of binding
twine at the penitentiary; $40, "a wa
expended in finding that the
appropriation was wholly inadequate
and the project was abandoned.
The appropriations and expenditures
for the state institutions from July 1,
1892. to June 80, 1894, We're $13S, 1851. 40.
The total enrolment is ga, and the
institutions have $305, COS of realty,
$72.0l0 of personal property. \ total of
S377, 0I5.
The governor refers to the criticisms
which have been made upon the appro-
priation of $40, 600 per year to the
school of mines, which has an attend.
ance of only 80 pupils, and he points
out the lack Of foundation for this
criticism and referring to the great
D&AGA& ACSOuIGCS VI bAS StubCp anA
mining activity, present and prospec-
tive. invites the legislature to investi-
gate the school of mines in view of its
great Importance to the state.
A plea is made for liberal attention
70 the school system and the message
states that the condition and manage
ment Of the charitable ins itutions is
most gratifying. De number of in
mates OF the insane asylum 10 now 36l,
being an increase of As.
The wage arner report is of much
interest. There are probably few
states In the Union where wage arners
are better paid than in South Dakota.
AS o, class, our agricultural earners
receive the highest wages. The wages
In the mining districts are and have
been liberal from the beginning. The
report shows that laborers in the
different mining districts are now paid
from %. so to $5 per day, and a large
number are employed.
The sinking Of artesian wells is re-
ceiving an unusual amount of atten-
ton throughout what is known as the
artesian basin of the state, the bound
aries of which have not been perfectly
defined. A belief exists that if the
subterranean waters underlying such a
great part of the state, and existing in
great volume, were brought to the sur
face and in~teligently used, the great
question confronting our agricultural
people would be solved.
Since the drilling of the first ~artesian
well in Aberdeen in 1880, 1877 deep
wells have been constructed in the
state, 81 having been completed within
the last two years, "a Of which are
public wells, constructed under our
law. Irrigation, where it has been
intelligently tried, has always proved
successful. The matter il of great
Importance and is entitled to you care
full investigation. I urge that the
committee upon irrigation shall be
carefully made up of thoughtful and
intelligent men, who are deeply inter.
ested in the matter.
The work of the public examiner is
reviewed at length, and particularly
the suspension of four county treas
urers, three of WHOM have since been
restored.
Only four banks have failed and two
of them will pay depositors in full.
The total number of inmates at the
Soldiers home is 80. The message
highly compliments the management
of the institution.
A long chapter is devoted to rail-
roads, urging their Importance TO the
state and the need of more roads, espe-
cially to the Black Hills country,
After describing in detail the pardons
issued to ~convicts, and recommending
that a state census be taken this year
by county assessors, the governor CON-
cludes as follows:
II feel that l have a right to con-
graduate you, the state and myself,
that you are SO LARGELY of the true po-
htical faith. The time was when to be
q Republican was to be a friend and
supporter of good government. Let it
not be said that that time has passed.
Let the duties of this session of the
legislature be so faithfully performed
as to give assurance TO the people that
no mistake was made i'm your election