The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1896-09-12

1 get seventeen cents for eggs. but have
| regular customers for them. Hay Is
| worth twenty dollars ton, but there is
| no farmers that have any to sell. 1t all
has TO be shipped from the west. We get
ali our flour from the west. tt:is worth
from four to Eve dollars barrel. Fruit
is plenty here. but if a maa hasn't a
farm to raise it On he is but little better
loft than he would be in Dakota. Last
fall wien | left Dakota Icould buy apples
for three doll rs barrel, when | got
here had TO pay two. Potatoes are the
main crop mere, tut when there is a gnnd
crop they don't bring much. | bought
them this spriag for forty cents barrel.
There is one thing good about this coiln-
try, the people are contented and il they
| get enough to eat nothing worries them.
lou may think farmers are out OF debt
here, but there isn't one in ten but what
has Il plaster on his farm unless it was
given him clear OF debt. A gooA many
of them fall to them from their fathers
and they settled here III an early day
when land was cheap, that is the way
they made their farms here. Ir a man
was to sum IN debt for a farm here !,a
would be gray headed before he got 1t
paid for.
Ii the people OF Dakota were only lis
contented class of people as they are
here they woull be alright. But can
say this, the people in Dakota are the
most discontented class OF people on
earth; they wouldn't be satisfied if they
had the earth. When was there was
as dissatisfied as any OF them and wanted
to get out just as bad. lean say this, |
may never come back to Dakota for |
may never have enough toget hack. but
II was back on my old farm they liayn't
got dogs enough lin Beadle county 10
drive me out ItcaSe,ed most seventeen
hundred miles across the states Of DakO-
ia, Iowa, Illinois, Indiana, Ohio and New
York and no where did see any nicer
laying land than saw between Woclsey
and Mitchell, S. D. tell you my friends
Dakota is fine state, she has got the
men that haye the get up and git in
them. When the glorious old Fourth OF
July came could not help but see the
difference here and there, nothing going
on, people sitting around like mummies.
In all the ten years lived in Dakota |
never missed celebrating the Fourth
The people of the west are more patriotic
than eastern people. Thcy have got the
life, the brains and the muscle. They
are not dead in their shell and people
stick to Dakota will come out all right.
And in their old age be comfortable and
have farm to hand down 70 their chill
dren, just as the old set, Is of this state
have done. | can tell you my friends, it
is much easier to stay in Dlkota when
you are there and have ltile start than
1T is to sacrifice all YOU have to get out
and then rake and and sesape every cent
to get back and have nothing 10 help
yourself with when vou get back and
have to begin over again. say stick TO
Dakota; she is all right. You may go
east, west, north or south, or any way
you please, you will never find country
that has no faults. know that Dakota
has hers, but today there isn'ta country
on Gods earth where poor man can get
the credit and get start and get himself
a home as easily as he can in Bpadle or
Hand county. South Dakota. Its thp
country for the poor man. Prices are
low but not not as low as in other places
according to what it cost to produce
then. eau raise five acres OF crops in
South Dakota easier than can one in
any other country | was ever in. will
close, wishing all MY Dakota friends
success. Yours truly, 7. l.. PECK.
Poestenkill, II. Y, Aug. 25, '96.