Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1900-04-19
Trekking to $. d.
IMMIGRATION TO THAT STATE,
Rush OF Settlers to the Wheat Lands.
Greater Than Any Year Since the
Early Boom-Land is dJing
Up i'm Price.

Up in Price.
There IL now no longer any doubt
that the influx OF new settlers to South
Dakota this season will assume larger
proportions than during any year since
the early sos, when the great rush to
Dakota occurred. Last year the popula-
ton OF the state was increased many thou
sands by the arrivals of new settlers, but
In comparison with the volume OF immi-
grafton which already Is reaching the
state, all former re nrds since n e early
'80s will be surpassed. The weekly news
papers of South Dakota contain many
items in reference TO the arrival of new
settlers, the sale of farm lands ut good
prices and other information which leaves
no doubt that the state will this season
enjoy the greatest prosperity in it, his
tory. The favorable feature OF the pre-
sent immigration, as we'll as that OF last
year, is that that the new arrivals are
farmers from S ates farther 20 tile east.
In this particular the character OF the
newcomer materially differs from that
OF a large proportion of the settlers who
participated III the "great trek" Dako-
taward eighteen or ine:eeu rear- ago.
Thousands of mrn who had not prev
iously engaged in farming at all, aud,
figurativelv speaking, did not know a
pillow from q harrow, participated In the
rush, secured quarter sections of Cover
ment land under the prov sions OF the
timber culture laws, and enghg,d in an
o~ccupation for which they were nor fit
ted either by training or experience.
Neither had they the necessary capital,
and from the start were handicapped by
having To- mortgage their properly In
order to procure the cash necessary to
purchase horses, agricultural Implements
etc The result was that in numberless
jnst ances their efforts were met with
failure. Failing to become rich in a year
or two, as they expected and many hav
ing lost there farms through mortgage
foreclosure, they give this couetry a bad
name. Now, however, this portion Of the
northwest has entirely recovered from
the damage resulting from the circula-
ton of the "hard-luck" stories, such a.
were set in motion by the "tenderfeet"
who were disappointed in their ambition
OF becoming rich In a brief period at oc-
equations for which they were not fitted
and without the necessity of working
hard. They we're the .get- rich quick
men OF there day, and because failure
attended their feeble and m~isdirectec
efforts they sought to aplay even'' b,
slandering the country. IL has at Least
one advantage IN which 1t is unsurpassed
by any other region In the world-th,
profits fromsa single seasons crop o
100 acres Of land will pay the purchase
price of the land. That has not, O
course, been the general experience o.
farmers, but numerous instances can b.
cited In which this was the case.
MOVEMENT Is GENERAL.
The following paragraphs, selected a
random from weekly newspapers pub
lished at points in sixteen Of the fifty o
more South Dakota coun 5 which ar
situated east of the M ~s,nri river AM
covering aniy about te lays, will
give an idea Of The ,oume o immigra
ton now ponring mt ,hr state add tn
prices AT which farm la,ds are beinl
sold.
A real estate q sl I more than usna
magnitude has b-en concluded ut Center
Vile, T ,rner ,spunty, by which ". s
Cummings secures possession of wha
is known AS the Rlade farm. rhe ia II
contains 500 acres and " purchase,
Tor $21,500 nearly S27 PEI ere. J. !
GallegIy of Tania county, Iowa, has iu-
concluded the purchase of III Luveset
farm Of = $50 acres, located live mile
from Genterville, the consideration he
Ing $1,000. George Poppe Of Buckly
Iroqnoi- county, ILL.,, has purchased tn,
Butler farm, IN tile same locality, fo
$500. The farm will be orcupied a
one. by he new owner. Robert Prime,
has sold Lis farm near Parker, also il
Turner county, 10 John Grant D Fillmor
MINI. for 3 400. A party Of seven faml
lies, Wi goods, horses etc have arrive,
In Norway township, in the 81 e countr,
ard hay, secured farms. which they vii
cultivate. In one day three carloads 0
immigrant goods were unlo asd in tn,
Parker yards. Jacob J. Kaufman o
Childstown, Turner county, a year ag,
purchased a quarter section Of land il
that locality which he has just sold fo
5000 more than he paid for it, he to alst
retain the crop raised on the land thi,
year. Peter Hanson and family have
arrived In the same locality from Irving
ron, Neb., and have settled upon a farm
which Hanson recently purchased.
COLON RON NORWAY.
1t Is announced that Manchester town
hin Kinushury ennpty will saaura .