Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-08-12
PIPEsToNE PEOPLE.
Many lowans Located in Southern
Minnesota-ereat Progress in Few

Years.
Editor Times-Republican: My last
visit to Pipestone was in May, 1888.
There has been a wonderful advance
since. Then the country was undevel-
oped. Now it is one grand stretch of
cultivated fields. Then the settlements,
We're sparse, the buildings poor; where
one quarter section was under the plow
the next had only forty acres under Gull
tivation, the next ten acres of broken
sod and the next was wild. Now 1t is
one upbroken stretch of grain and corn
fields for miles and miles, with comfort
able, painted houses and red barns. 1t
would be difficult to find anywhere a
more beautiful or pleasing panorama.
The landscape is as lovely as the eye
ever rested upon. There are many Iowa
people in Pipestone and the population,
like that of northwestern Iowa, is usu-
ally intelligent and alert. For this rea-l
son southern Minnesota, like northern
Iowa, is poor place for machine poll
tics and bosses. The Sioux City Journal.
is the favorite paper because it arrives
in the morning and while the people
commend it as newspaper its editorial.
utterances have no influence whatever.
In fact. it would be difficult to find any
where so good newspaper with so lit
tie influence. However, the journal
sometimes drops into the habits of the
Register and the Hawkeye. No papers
reach Pipestone on Sunday. / waited
eagerly for the Monday morning Journal
to get the news from Johnson county
that was so certainly anti-Cummins.
found not a single line then knew
n
Minis. 1t seems to me there is great
field for a paper like the T.-R in Pipe
stone.
Land has risen rapidly. Evidences of
prosperity meet you on every hand.
Farmers are accommodating rapidly and
getting rich. The remarkable rise IN
lard is due to several causes. The Won
derful prosperity of the country is re-
sponsible for part of it. Spectators, who
we're non-residents, owned it. They
6idn't know it's value. 1t has now passed
into the hands of men who intend to
hold it, and almost instantly it advanced
to point where it's earning capacity
corresponds to best interest rates. Cash
rents are 50 to $3.50, but 1t is not unusual
for landlord to realize S4 out of his
one-third.
Pipestone is a beautiful town. The
business part is built principally of the
brown pipestone found in inexhaustible
quantities in quarries near the town.
The court house nearing completion is
of this material. 1t was to cost $4,000,
but the estimate has been raised to $780,
900. This is conclusive that it is an hon
est piece of work. for know Of many
court houses no better that cost 100000.
The county's finances are in good shape.
Crops are good. Oats are yielding from
thirty-five to fifty bushels, wheat fifteen
to twenty, flax is poor, barley good and
corn late and the acreage limited, but
saw several fields of better corn than
have seen in Iowa. 1T hasn't the sickly
appearance of Iowa corn fields. Pipe
stone city has a fine hotel-the Calumet
and three strong banks-the First Ma
tional, Pipestone County Bank and
Farmers and Merchants The latter
was established in 1896 by five Iowa boys
from Brooklyn. From small beginning
it has grown rapidly. Their deposits
have grown from $4,000 in 1898 to $780,
OO0 H. H. Rind is the general manager.
Harvey knows every farmer and every
piece of land in Pipestone county. He is
very popular and we'll liked. and has the
confidence of every one. From his boy.
hood, at Brooklyn, every body who knew
him trusted him and he has not changed.
This bank is doing far more than its
share of business in proportion to capt.
tai. All in all Pipestone may be put
down as one of the most prosperous
communities in the northwest.
D. w. NORRIS.