The Black Hills union. [volume] (Rapid City, Pennington County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1889-1904, 1896-09-18

Custer Chronicle: Mrs. q. N.
Boswell and children left on Mon
day evenings train for a two
months visit with relatives and
friends In Oskaloosa, Iowa.
From the subjects being used by
the clergy Of Deadwood it would
seem that the ministers Of tnat
town are preaching upon the live
topics of the day. The ministry
should keep up with the times ~
much so as the common people.
Belle Fourche has made provision
for fire protection. A 500, 600 gal
Ion tank or reservoir has been To-
Gated on a knoll ninety feet above
Main street, which gives q pressure
of orty-ive pounds. The water
supply is from the ~artesian well,
which is forced into the reservoirs
by pressure.
National Provisioner: The differ
ance between the price paid by
coming wider and wider as the de-
mand for meats coming from the
latter keeps lessening. The far
mering is having bis lesson, and
there is every. hope, despite the big
corn crop in sight, that those who
have a real interest in the business
of hog producing for substantial
profit, will, ere long, regard the
Situation in it's proper light, and
feed their hogs with some respect
to those who would purchase them.
The Express states that the Edge
mont Co. has appropriated about
$40, 900 to be expended in improve
ments during September, October
and November, and that already
fifty teams are employed in grading
streets. A steel bridge will be
built across the river to connect the
resident and business portion of the
the city, the strong piers and butt
ments for whick are already in.
Although Edgemont has the finest
and most extensive reservoirs, can
ais and l~aterals, plans are on foot
to construct a mammoth reser-
voir near the city. 1t will
cover 700 acres at an average depth
of seventeen feet.
Sioux Stock Journal: Louis La
Plant returned last night from
Arizona bringing,with him 23O0 head
of cattle. Mr.. La Plant left last
April and has since been travelling
all through the southern states buy
ing cattle and it is needless to men
ton that he purchased only the
best he could find. A good many
Of these he has already disposed of
to Bloom, Paradis, McLane and
Douglas & Thayer, and tho balance
will be kept at the ranch on Bad
river. In speaking of that country
as a stock country he says that it is
not in it at all with Dakota and that
he was delayed six weeks on account
of no feed. Louis is hale and hearty
and looks as though the world
agreed with him, or he agreed with
the world.
Drovers Telegram: A letter re
ceived Friday from G. A. Pillsbury,
of Minneapolis, says it is amusing to
read the government report and see
that it gives the condition of spring
wheat in Minnesota as 60 against
105. I have forgotten the exact fig.
ures for last lear, but the actua
threshing returns show that Mime
sofa has not anywhere near one-hali
!, the wheat it raised last year. I an
going over some figures from thu
actual threshing returns and hope
, to get them finished tomorrow
; They will show that the crop O
, Minnesota is not half as large az i
was last year and the crop of Soutl
Dakota is not over forty per cent o
3 what is was last year. These ar
not guesses or estimates, becaus
they are made from the actua
threshing return compared wit
those of last year. These figure
in detail will show that on a basis g
our having raised 200, 600, 900 bu
last year, we have not raised 1913,
600, 900 bu. this year. Now if W
y raised less than 200, 600, 900 bu. las
year as I think we did, it woul
bring the crop this year down i
proportion.
$ Black Hills Press: Down 6
y Doyle lives a law abiding body (
u citizens who will not tolerate til
Q slightest deviation from what the
q consider the straight and mario
way. An illustration of the wa
'e Justice is administered there