The pioneer press. (Miller, Hand County, S.D.) 1893-190?, 1902-01-09


does not take into account the output
| or the manufactures OF the state returned
| by the federal census for 1900 al SD 23I-
Z59 Tor the reason that these manufac-
tured products do not represent new
/ wealth In the sense that agricultural and
mineral products do.
Assuming that our population is now
oheshalf million the per capita production
this year, exclusive of manufactures is
| $3.50 per capita, as against s26j 40 in
| 100, and, although the figures for other
| states are not yet available, South Da-
| kota is unquestionably. for the fourth
successive year, in the first place for the
| per capita production of new wealth.
| Artesian Wells.
There has during this year been almost
| a revolution I'm the artesian well PROPOSE
| ton in the wide area in which wells are
| available. Previously wells have been
| bored from four to eight inches IL diam
| eter by slow and expensive process. Re
| Gently, however, new processes have been
| devised by which small wells, one and a
| h9lf inches i'm diameter ard affcrding an
! abundance OF water for all ordinary farm
! or ranch purposes are bored rapidly and
| at small expense. These remarkable ana
| uhfaiilng water supplies cost from $3.50
| to $500, according to depth, which ranges
| from 800 feet in Yaukton county 10 100
! IN northern Brown county i'm the James
|
| teau, and are constructed complete. in
| from four to twenty days These wells
| contribute incidentally to the profit, con-
| NenienCe and comfort OF farming opera
| uons, stock growing and home building.
! aiding in the growth of groves lawns and
| gardens and supplying fish ponds cheapiv
| ard conveniently. / have not yet scCurCd
an enumeration Of the new wells OF the
! present stason, nut man.fe8tly, fully one
| hundred have been added tc the large
! number OF larger wells which have pre-.
| viously been bored.
Natural Gas BELT.
| Two new wells have defined wider boun-
| daries for the natural Eas which was
| originally perforated at Pierre ten years
| ago. These were in Sully mcounty and
! ago. These were in Sully county and
| area has now been defined from point
! west of the Missouri river twenty-five
| miles south of Pierre, up that valley a
| distance of eighty miles To- the Cheyenne
! River Agency and north from Pierre 100
| 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 un-
diminished flow demonstrates its per-
| manence.
| Tree Planting.
A new impulse has been given to tree
! planting during this season, and many
! new groves have been started, and many
others are in contemplation for the COM
ing spring. Tree growing for present or
| future profit is little considered, most
| land owners feeling that the soil can be
| devoted TO crops or pasturing with better
| returns, but home groves for ornament
| and protection are becoming more COM
/ pVann md Nr,fa Int toll ont
! and painstaking planters have learned
| the secre. of success in tree growing, and
| their less careful neigE0ors are prohting
| from their experience and experiments.
| The favorable weather conditions for sew
eral successive seasons have contributed
| much encouragement to the new move
| ment.
Improving Native Fruits.
The fact is becoming generally recog-
| nized that the fruits native to a mild
| moist coast climate are not adapted To
| the interior Of great continents. Each re-
| gion must, in fact, develop its own po-
| mology. Disregard of ills principal by
| nurserymen ard fruit growers has proven
| expensive to thousands of planters. The
! native fruits of SCUM Dakota are emf
| nently worthy of cultivation and inn
| prOvement. At the South Dakota Agri-
| cultural College and Experiment station,
at Bro9kings. this work is receiving spe-
cial attention. Prof. y. Il. Hanson has
| raised over 1900 seedlings of native
| fruits the past two years, and the num-
her raised this year is much larger. Some
| 500 sand cherries, of the second genera
| ton, under cultivation, bore for the first
| time, from seed planted in the spring of
1899, and the fruit of several of these
| measured over three-fourths of an inch
| i'm diameter and of quality good enough
| for table use. Strawberries and raspber-
| ries OF half wild ard half tame ancestry,
| also fruited for the first time, and show
| considerable promise, The many other
Wild fruits are receiving attention.
Politics.
This has been an or year i'm politics in
South Dakota, only judges OF the circuit
court being chosen. The Republicans
placed in nomination the following gentle
| men for the iudgeships.
First Circuit--Ellison p. Smith
Second Circuit-Joseph w. Jones.
| Third Circuit-CharleS X Sword.
Fourth Circuit-Frank f.. Smith.
| Fifth Circumstances II. Mccoy.
| Sixth Circuit-Loren T.. Gaffey.
| Seventh Circuit-Frank j. Washabaugh
| Brown.
The fusion of the Democrats and Popu-
! lists nominated:
| First Circuit-Jared Runyan.
Second Circuit-P. w. Seaman.
Third Circuit--Julien Bennett.
! Fourth Circuit--A. i. Chamberlain.
| Fifth Circuit--Thomas II. Null.
| Sixth Circuit-No nominee.
| Seventh Circuit-Joseph h. Moore.
| Eighth Circult-Levi Magee.
The Republican candidates We're escted
ia the First, Second. Fourth, Fifth and
Sixth and Seventh circuits. Messrs. Ben
nett and Magee upon the Fusion ticket
| were elected in the Third and Eighth cir
| cults, respectively.
| Literary Output.
Five new books by South Dakota
| writer's have come TO the attention of the
| writer during the year. These are text
| book upon the structural Style of Prose