The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1902-01-10

1t will be observed that the foregoing
does not take into account the output
of the manufactures of the state returnsd
by the federal census for 1900, at Sl2,23h-
go for the reason that these manufac-
tured products do not represent ne"
wealth in the sense that agricultural ana
mineral products do.
Assuming that our population is now
one-nalf million the per capita productoS
this year, exclusive of manufactures -
x229.3O per capita, as against S2oo.45 I'D
1900, and, although the figures for other
states are not yet available. South pa
kota is unquestionably, for the fourth
successive year., in the first place Tor the
per capita production of new wealth.
Artesihn Wells.
There has during this year been almost
a revolution in the artesian we'll PROPOSE
ton in the wide area in which wells are
available. Previously wells have peeh
bored from four to eight inches in dam
eter by a slow and expensive process. re
Gently, however, new processes haVc peth
devised by which small wells, one ana d
half inches in diamete and affcrding an
abundance of water for all ordinary farm
or ranch purposes are bored rapidly anu
at small expense. These remarkable anu
unfailing water supplies cost from S-9v
to $500, according to depth. which ranges
from 500 feet in Yankton county to l,lW
in northern Brown county in the james
Valley, and 1000 feet on the missouri CO.
teau. and are constructed complete, I'D
from our to twenty days. These wel'S
contribute intellectually to the profit, con-
yenience and comfort of farming opera
tons, stock growing n home buldihs,
aiding in the growth OF groves, lawns anu
gardens and supplying fish ponds cheapIs
and conveniently. l have not yet securoo
an enumeration Of the new wells of the
present season.. but manifestly. July ono
hundred have been added to the iarse
number OF larger wells which have prs
viously been bored.
Natural Gas Belt.
WI new wells nave defined wider boun-
daries for the natural gas which was
originally perforated at Pierre ten years
ago. These were in sully mcounty an d
ago. These were in Sully county anu
area has now been defined from a point
west Of the Missouri river twenty-five
miles south Of Pierre, up that valley q
distance Of eighty miles to the Cheyenne
River Agency and north from Pierre lV
miles to Selby. Similar wells have been
found at and near Edgerly in North Da-
kota which may be within the same field
In any event. the developments already
made demonstrate the South Dakota gas
field to be one OF The largest yet discoV-
cred, and ten years of continuous and I'M
diminished flow demonstrates it's per,
manence. !
IRE Planting.
A new impulse has been given to tree
planting during this season. and many
new groves ave been started, and many
otners are in contemplation for the COM
ing spring. Tree growing for present or
future profit 10 little considered, most
iand owners feeling that the soil can be
ueVoteo 70 crops or pasturing with better
returns. but home groves for ornament
ana protection are becoming more COM
mon and more conspicuous. Intelligent
ana painstaking planters have learned
me secret OF success in tree growing. and
their less careful neighbors are proftinS
from their experience and experiments.
The favorable weather conditions for sew
eral successive seasons have contributed
mucn encouragement to the new move
Improving Native Fruits.
The fact il becoming generally recog-
nized thai tho fruits native to q mild
moist coast climate Are not adapted to