Brookings weekly register. (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1898-1903, 1899-02-02
BROOKIAGS and BROOKIASs csgRTy,
A BRIEF Descriptions

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 firstclass creamery
Good water near surface
State Agricultural college
Splendid resort for sportsmeu.
Waterworks for fire protection.
Two lumber yards.
Five grain elevators.
Fine brick public school building
incorporation three miles square
One monthly periodicai-coIlegs.
One bnilding and loan association.
Three weekly papers
Railroads running east, west and rc,rth
FIGURING mill with capacity OF ald barrels,
Abstract tand title guaranty company-in-
corporated
County seat Brookings county, population n
l2,o0-fine court house and jaiI
Surrounded by the best farming snd graz
Ing lands in South Dakota where crops are
suIe and water plenty.
Masonic bodies: Commandery, Council,
Chapter, Blue Lodge and Eastern scar odd
Fellows: Encampment, Subordinate and
Rebekah. A. o. U. w. and Degree of Honor.
Modern woodmen and Royal Neighbors.
Royal Arcsnum. National Aid Associat ton.
Mystic Circle. G. A. r. and Wouaan's Relief
Corps.
Beautiful trees dot the prairie in every d.
rection and the city presents o charm ing ap
pearance, matted as IL Is I'm midst of n ne
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 adaptsd 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 Ia Of n rich, back k
loan and Is unsurpassed for fertility. The
best of water is found near the surface, and
numerous small streams water the rich farm
lands in all directions. II contains % town
ships and sos, ,5s4.43 acres OF gently rolling
land, fully IS per cent Of which is under culti-
walton. Has l0i good schooIhouses valued at
about 100000 in round numbers Good rail-
road facilities. Assessed valuation, 1898,
SS,3i5,00O. Tax levy, 1898, 1Omills 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-aIl occupied by actual
settlers. Decided land can be purchased at
from Sl2 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 neighborhoods throughout the
county have their churches where the people
worship every Sunday.
During the past year a 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 arc 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 can find no better soil, no better lo-
cation and no better markets i'm the whole
northwest than Brookings comfy presents.
Come out and see for yourselves the banner
counto of South Dakota.