The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1896-05-07

now, therei is no denying the tendency
towards exclusive stock raising on Il
large scale. Now the PRESS is as
thoroughly impressed with the i'm
portance of stock raising as any
man in the county-as can be easily
attested by II years of it's advocacy
through these columns. But for the
benefit of the county and of the peo-
pie there is a limit to the extent to
which this industry should go.
If Hand county is to be well settled
by an intelligent, progressive people
who will maintain all the consequent
conveniences and advantages of
civilization, it must be upon the ba-
sis of mixed farming and dairying.
If the citizens, professional men,
merchants and property holders of
Miller desire a town here, with it's
present advantages it must have a
fairly well settled country to sup
port it.
To maintain the conditions suggest
ed in the two preceding paragraphs,
the PRESS believes the creation of
eremeries and cheese factories will be
necessary. The more enterprises OF
the kind, the more people will we
have. 1t takes people to develop a
country-and it takes people to do
business. Since looking somewhat
into this question, it is learned that
some of the most populous, and best
counties in Minnesota have more
creameries than they have townships.
These things, SO desirable, cannot
be had certainly if we adopt reser-
walton methods with a few cattle
kings herding 1000 or more cattle
each over the country, withcowbovs,
while they themselves reside in Sioux
City orChicago. Nor would this con-
dition benefit our stock buyers and
shippers, because the big owners
would ship their own stock, and then
buy a years supplies for their herd
ers in Chicago-while as Il mixed
dairying and farming country stock
buyers and shippers would be us
necessary as wheat buyers, mer-
chants. profession men, schools,
churches, etc.
TO corroborate some of the points
herein presented, we desire to quote
the following special sent from Pierre
to the Sioux Falls Press:
Pierre, April 3O-Besides the petit
ton Tor organization of Harding
county whibh was filed in the COVER
EOrs office several days ago, a num-
Der OF letters of remonstrance have
also been filed. Those asking for
organization say they desire it for
the purpose OF securing schools and
they do not care where the county
seat is located Just so they secure
the organization. The opposition
charges that the whole move is
prompted by a desire to secure the
organization with Nashville as the
county seat, and that it is in the
interest of II few small stockmen near
that point; that "A number of the
signatures on the petition are not
legal, and Others were secured with
out the signers understanding the
purpose OF the move. Those who
desire the organization say the OPP
position comes from the heavy cat
tie owners who have taken posses
sion OF large tracts of the county
and fenced them without even at
tempting to secure fling rights, and
who are in many cases residents
OF other counties and only holding
cattle in Harding comfy to escape
taxation in the counties in which
they live; and are making their fight
on organization of Harding county
for the purpose of escaping local
taxation. From all the papers filed
in the case it looks to an outsider
like the inevitable scrap" between
the small r%anchers and the big cattle
men which is always to be met with
in the cattle country before local
government Is secured. In the pres
emf fight the big men may win,
but their days are numbered in South
Dakota, and it is only a question
OF how long they can hold out
against the increasing numbers with