Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-11-08

There is talk OF q cheese factory be-
ing established at Bryant.
Steps have been taken for the estab-
lishment OF a rural mail delivery route
out OF Worthing.
Vaughan Brothers of Hurley have de-
cided TO put up a fine modern business
block to be occupied by their drug bus
mess.
The brick block at Lead owned by
Kuester and Pinsonault has e COM
pleted. The building is one OF the best
in the town.
Considerable public improvements
have been made at Irene since the
town was Incorporated and il now
boasts of having the best sidewalks of
any town Of its size in the state.
Beresford is becoming quite a manu-
featuring town. A second broom man
ufacturing firm has just commenced OPP
erations there and expects TO turn out
from ten to fifteen dozen brooms per
day.
Brookings county prides Itself on the
fact that this years delinquent tax list
is the smallest in the history of the
county and the smallest in the state
with the exception OF that Of Clay
county
Final arrangements have been per-
fected by the Chamberlain Electric
Light company for an artesian Wen.
MaEanna & johnson have the contract.
The we'll viii be sunk a few yards east
Of the power house.
a. L. Hauck, a Grant county farmer,
reports the banner yield OF fax. having
thresfaed scventy-fve bushels from
three and one-half acres. This yield at
$3.50 per nushel is not very bad for q
South Dakota record.
The dates upon which Clarence S.
barrow OF Chicago was to speak
throughout the Back Hills in behalf
OF the fusion cause have beer Cancelled
owing to the fact that Mr.. barrow was
called East on important legal BUSH
ness.
The Black Hills is preparing TO roll
up a good vote at the election next
month. In n day recently thirty-two
foreigners ~renounced allegiance to for
mer rulers at Deadwood and took out
American citizenship Pagers. Twelve
others took "a second papers and be-
came full-fedged American citizens.
A strong flow of water has been
struck in an artesian Well on the Perry
& Wheeler ranch, west of Bradley. but
an upward flow of water crowded the
bucket and rods up in such a manner
as to break the cable of tbs drilling ma
chine and the drill settled back into the
wei and was o buried in sand n
dirt. Other wells will be sunk in that
part of the state.
Plans and specifications have been re-
ceiyed at Fort Meade for the new
buildings TO be erected by the govern
ment there. They show a pretty co:n-
plete and up-to-date set OF buildings.
The commanding officers quarters VII
be as handsome as any suburban villa,
while the one set OF barracks will be
complete in every particular. Stone for
the new buildings will be obtained from
the Sturgis quarries.
The six-inch artesian well at the
Chamberlain mill has been decreasing
gradually for the past few weeks. and
the advice Of Mr.. Johnson a shot
was put in the well. Apparently the
shot was too strong, for the well closed
up and oes not run Mr.. Gutenberg
has contracted with Peter Norbect to
sink q new well, and during the neces-
sary delay he will put in an entire
change of the rolling system, doubling
the capacity of the mill. This move Is
owing to business demands.
Capt. Billy Slime of Chamberlain has
from Alaska, where during
the past season he has had charge ot
a steamer On the Yukon, plying between
st. Michaels and Dawson City. Before
leaving Alaska the captain had a siege
OF malarial fever which FASTENED his
He says there is an immense
amount of sickness and many fatalities
owing TO an impure water supply. He
is at present undecided as 10 whether
he may return in the spring or rot.
The captain declares that the develop
ment of the gold and mineral ields OF
Alaska is yet in is infancy AMI that
the country possesses wonderful DC ssh
He is of the opiaion that the
best copper mines in the world are
there. large quantities Of the metal in
an almost pure state having been dis
covered. The difficulties OF transpor-
tation, mining and impure water, how
ent, but these ills will in time be over
come to a great extent.