Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1899-02-16
BROoKINGS and eRoOKINGs COUNTY.
A BRIEF DESCRIPTION.

One feed mill.
Electric lights.
Seven churches.
Five good hotels.
One steam laundry.
Long distance telephone system.
One national bank
Twenty-Five hundred souls.
Excellent drainage.
One state bank
Fine lake near the city.
One first-class creamery.
Good water near surface
State Agricultural college.
Splendid resort for sportsmen.
Waterworks for fire protection.
Two lumber yards.
Five grain elevators.
Fine brick public school building
Incorporation three miles square.
One monthly periodical--colege.
One bnilding and loan association.
Three weekly papers
Railroads running east, west and north.
FIGURING mill with capacity OF 200 barrels.
Abstract and title guaranty company-ln-
corporated.
County seat Brookings county, population
i2,0O0-tine court house and Jail.
Surrounded by the best farming snd graz
suie and water plenty.
Masonic bodies: Commandery, Council.
Chapter, Blue Lodge and Eastern star. odd
Fellows: Encampment, Subordinate ard
Rebekah. A. o. U. W. and Degree of Honor.
Modern woodmen and Royal Neighbors.
Royal Arcanum. National Aid Association.
Mystic Circle. G. A. r. and Woman's Relief
Corps.
Beautiful trees dot the prairie in every d-
rection and the city presents charming ap-
pearance, matted as IL IL in midst of fine
growth of shade and ornamental trees
Brookings invites manufacturing enterprises,
wholesale houses and business OF all kinds.
Her citizens are ready and willing to encour-
age and assist every helpful industry.
The county of which Brookings is the
county seat is the best adapted to diversified
farming of any in South Dakota. Situated in
the center of the renowned Big Sioux Valley
and watered by the Big Sioux river and in
Vulnerable lakes. The soil is of rich, black
loan and is unsurpassed for fertility. The
best of water Is found near the surface, and
lands in all directions. 1t contains % town.
ships and Os,5si.4s acres of gently rolling
land, fully IS per cent Of which is under culti-
walton. Has lO4 good schoohouses valued at
about 800, 900 In round numbers. Good rail-
road facilities. Assessed valuation, 1898,
S3,3i5, 900. Tax levy, 1898, 10 mills for general
purposes. Average crop for the past twenty
years, IS bushels per acre. Fine herds of
blooded stock and rich grazing lands. No
government land-alI occupied by actual
settlers. Decided land can be purchased at
from Si2 to $50 per acre, according to location.
Good railroads convenient for marketing
stock and grain.
Long distance telephone connects every
town with the county seat and extends to
many points in the state as well as into Min
nesota and Iowa
The country neighborhoCds through hout the
county have their churches where the people
worship every Sunday.
During the past year large number OF peo-
pie from the east have brought their families
to Brookings county and located perma-
nently. In every instance they are contented
with their choice of location and are prosper
ing. There Is still opportunities for people OF
all classes to come here and be independent.
No state In the union offers better advantages
than can be found right here in the Sioux
Valley region.
Farmers In the east who contemplate COM
ing west con find no better soil, no better To-
cation and no better markets in the whole
northwest than Brookings comfy presents.
Come out and see for yourselves the banner
counto of South Dakota.