The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1897-09-26
EUREKASFLOwoFwEA
TIE GREATEST Primary WHEAT
MARKET IN THE WORLD.


n South Dakota Town where On, 500, 600
Will Ne Paid for Grain This season-Pros-
perity and Ignorance OF settlers Who
Went There Poor-No Pisoo for Gamblers.
EUREKA, 8. D., Sept. 22.-This littlo city Is
unique. 1t has a population Of loss than 1900,
most Of whom cannot speak English. and 1t has
been called a jumping-off place; yet 1t has
stores which would do credit to cities OF 1o0,-
600 population and carry stocks worth from
100000 to Sl5O,O0o. These stores are doing
n trade that would gladden. many n Wholesale
merchant. Some of the few American resi-
dents have homes in which arc. found all tho
comforts expected In large cities In the East.
The reason Of this state OF things is that Eu-
reka is the greatest primary wheat market of
the world, and the present crop and prices are
bringing 1t more wealth than It knows what to
do with.
There arc more than twenty-five grain elo-
vators here, and 'some forty.fivo wheat buyers
are constantly stationed In tho streets from
the beginning of the marketing season till we'll
into the winter. Those men pay out from 5000
to 81 500 daily for tho entire season of crop
marketings, and not far from 50. 500, 900 will
pass into tho hands of the Russian farmers
hercabouts for grain alone this fall. On many
a day there can be counted on tho streets,
waiting at the elevators to unload wheat, from
200 to 800 farm wagons loaded with grain,
and. as there Is no town Of consequence for
sixty or seventy miles in any direction, there
Is no opportunity for the sellers to exchange
their cash for goods elsewhere. This makes
Eureka tho nveliest town in the Dakotas. Farm
wagons are unloading day and night, and the
work Of the elevator mon is often not COM
pletcd till well on toward morning.
Never before the present month has Eureka
seen such lively times as now. for its territory
ia oorstart,y eI,nr ni,h oo,t,.,s ~ ,hs -.
80, -, o.. -, 80. i. -. - ~
go ua,.d,,u n.o. 60, 4. 49,.
that npob wheat tbot uo. mn, .o,d u 1901
IT, .oooon, 4. .o,nm ,..,u,. =. -. o..
a. .o.m. .. III 4. 4. TT. u ~. -
80 - = torritorr .,rorina q GOO ."nsSs
r,,,.. Nv NOR. th.n . ooo GOO 80. -, ~,
vh,oh q. o,o.n.nt ,,ha,, ,nns n, ,o,uas !.
q. =, 1900. - .....Ix ..,.I., -. -.
arr. -a,s. nm immonso awount ~ ,rha,t 49, III
-, a, $50 on 40 E,..ha w.. NV n
f,r,or. 80 ,ho ,o,n,,r ,ou,a -. =. -
atockrais,ng IN a considsroh,. .o.l. .nd th.r
s'ooAiaiSihe VII u cohS'uer"o'e scalo anu tnoy
arc this season adding fat cattle to their sales
., "t tsst WIN me-. a1er rag e steer at 40 a
mead 'ney arc setunT rch so rast theT DO not
with all the money in Eureka and its vicin,.
ty there is very little fraud here and the brace
Eamostcr is unknown. All about Eureka tho
~settlers arc Russians. and thew have vorv NJ.
tie use for criminal laws, other than those they
make themselves. This was shown a few
months ago when two faro men. learning of
A. - -
tho crowds OF hayseeds here took 1t into their
heads to como here also and SEQ what they
might be able to turn I'm the way of a penny or
-. Tl.-..-.
3d.. ihey opened tneir games ono evening and
had good success that night. Before morning,
however. the farmers who had been nlucked
oon,.rr.d VIZ, ,haIr ,.,ans. - III 49,
."o.leu "ih their IienuS ana al aeciaed
that the two men must leave. In the morning
tho strangers were told in broken EnyliRh that
Frreka ,os . It,1o n,ano ,rh.ro ,hs ,n.,nars
had no use for gambling games, and that they
must 90. They refused to go and said that
,haw IA unsn - ;"
they hau btruck q Roou tning ana were going 10
stay with 1t. The quietfaced farmers who
couldn't talk pood Enclisb. didn., arv,,e Tb.v
-, -. -
simoiy Rot ropes ana stretched the necks OF the
two strangers till they cried Enough" Then,