The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1900-01-05
Milbanks Growth in New Build
ings During the Year.
Over 100000 Worth Of New
Buildings and Structural
improvements.

The new year of 1900 shows a
very auspicious dawn for Mil
bank and Grant county. We
think it may ne asserted without
fear of successful contradiction
that no year since the first settle
ment of the country has been SO
universally satisfactory to our
people as the year just brought
to a close. With at least an aver
age crop throughout the county,
and with reasonably fair prices
for all products, excepting per-
haps wheat, the farming com
munity is in a generally pros
porous condition. The steady
and extended rise in the price of
farm lands, which has been most
remarkable during the year, and
the continued demand for these
lands at the up prices, is the
best possible evidence that farm
ing operations in Grant county
have paid, not for one year only,
but on the whole for q series of
years. The comfortable condi-
ton of many of the farmers Of
the county who few years q
go were having all they could do
to hold on, is also one Of the in
spring indications of q per ma
ment prosperity for Grant
county. The farmers of this
county who have stood by their
farms aud dealt fairly with the
soil and their own opportunities,
if they are not rich, are at least
living on easy street, and are
able to make as favorable show
ing as can bemade in any of the
older settled states. The many
fine farm buildings scattered
over the county, the number of
which has been so materially in
creased this year, is also an in
dication that permanent homes
are being built up on Grant
OOulUy AduNS.
With the general prosperity of
the county the city of Milbank
has been closely identified, and
has shared in this prosperity and
is showing signs of healthy
growth in population and build
ing operations. The merchants,
business men and banks almost
universally report . most salts
factoryincrease in their business
during the year, and have q hope
full and expectant feeling for the
future. For the past two or
three years a noticeable increase in
building operations has been
made, and the record along this
line during the year just gone
has been particularly apparent.
Every dwelling or residence
property of any character has
been occupied. and a constant de-
mand for further accommoda-
tions in this line has been made,
SO that the building operations
Of the year have hardly kept
pace with the demand for in
creased house facilities. Besides
the large number Of new homes
erected several important addi-
tions to the business buildings
of the city have been made, the
mOstimportant of which is prob
ably the fine new Touring mill
of the Wagner company, and the
Gamble and Bouck store build
ings. Below we give a list ct
these improvements, as indica-
tive Of the healthy growth Of our
little city:
w. A. Harris. dwelling 9Ox2o. .....1 800 q
A. D. Diets, residence Hxl2 and haEn. 1900 0,
A. D. Diets, house 3oxlO and barn ... l.6D q
| VIM. Diets, dwelling 0Ox2O .. 100 Ok
Louis Diets, dwelling l6x22. 2........... 800 q
W. g. Goldsmith, dwelling 14x2e-llx9o l,4O0 d
John Stewart, dwelling l6xs2 and l6xl6. go U
W. J. Booth, addition 70 houss. ......... SO O
H. P.'Cleveland, residence l6x9s s-l6xlS. l,sOO y
H. r. Cleveland, improvement ......... 100 o
Jnstis Berkin, improvement on store
building .......... a1D !
A. A. Chapman, barn and Improvements 100 =
Geo. st tr6s. Ss.a s.;,asass sasss % asEss "a i:s