The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1895-04-18

Miner County has loaned about 26,0N
bushels of seed grain to the farmars.
The Iiomestake Mining Company Of the
Black Hills has announced the regular
monthly dividend OF - cents per share,
aggregatng $3l zoo, a total TO date Oi s.
49, go.
+. NJ. Weston, travelling freight agent Of
the Chicago and Northwestern Railway
looking up cattle shipments for his road.
He reports cattle scarce, and predicts
much higher prices for the next two wears.
COMMISSIONS of Irrigation Baldwin
talks very e~ncouraginciy of artesian
work in South Dakota. lie reports appIi-
cations for wells in several counties OF the
Jim River Valley, and work in progress
both toward location and sinking Of wells
III different portions of the state.
The commissioners of Clark County have
purchased $1,000 bushels of seed wheat and
400 bushela of seed corn, each applicant
receiving fifty bushels of wheat and not to
exceed four bushels Of corn. A note for
tie amount, secured by clattel mortgage
on the crop to be raised. is taken at Tie
time the seed is delivered.
Heavy cattle dealers from the South Da-
kota range have just returned from the
southwest, where they went to purchase
cattle, returning without investing, the
prices ranging from SIS TO $50 for 2-year-
olds. This has raised the price of cattle in
the vicinity of Pierre, and young cattle,
which have been going at very low figures
lor several years, are now good properly
Another rich strike has been reported 10
nave been made in the vicinity oil Key
stone. 1t was learned that parties brought
III some samples of rock, and from TWO
pounds OF the same eleven pennyweighi'
ana eleven grains were panned out. NH
not known at present Just where the ore
was found, but the finders vouchsated III.
formation that it wa within two miles Of
the Keystone Mine.
Ore assaying over $50 in gold has beeh
found in claims adjoining the Inter ocean
Nine at Welcome City. There are lafctI
quantities of work in sight and WORK WIZ
De pushed at once to determine the W!uun
Oh ledge. y rich strike is also reported u
nave been made at the Lucky CusS MINING
property, situated two miles southeast VI
tlc Holy Terror. in Iepec Gulch.
Brule County now has eighteen complete
artcslan wells, which furnish the waleII"
''''N' =" vi EtlNtiio' ~
also SIX well drilling outfits at work, eaVH
81 winch has contracts for ali Inc Wis
they will be able to sink during the com.
me summer and fall. 1T IS estimated TIA,
lo,oU acres of land in the county, II loW''
Necessary, will be irrigated this season.
The new artesian well IN Bonilla low"
snip At Huron is completed. II IS d fso
men bore, is l,G0D feet deep. and loNs'|
gallons per minute, and viii be used !oi
rigatlns. The we'll on the a. j. 0Iidle"
farm at Hitchcock is also nearing gun
pletion. 4 splendid How of water W.,
reached at a depth OF 900 feet. but ui4''"'-
Will continue, as Mr.. Glidden propo>t'"
use the we'll for power and irriSatEs fu
poses.
Chief Engineer Berry of the t!Hno"
road has completed the worE o! i''''"-
Tour large reservoirs in the cattle cou'".
aaJaccnt to Belle Fourclc. The resei'o"
are located inside of tlliriy-iiIe ihiie'w
Bette FOurche, between seven, ei@ht, iVTmh
teen and ,hlrty-iive miles from W nm
capacity of the four Will be l,ooJ'o w.
gallons when completed. The co''i"Iitg
for ,he work have been let aui wor" w"
be commenced within fifteen days