The Aberdeen Democrat. (Aberdeen, South Dakota) 1???-1909, 1903-08-21

But no Tower Stairway Provided for
In Court House Plans

The writer, who has watched with
growing interest and pride the rising
walls of the new court house and
climbed up the tower a number OF
times as far as he dared to enjoy the
view, has been at a loss to know what
provision had been made for stair
way to enable people to make use or
the lookout from the top of the tow
er. Mr.. Seeley, chairman of the
board of county commissioners, upon
making an examination of the plan
~ - 4 iissouverea that ..a provision had been
y made in the contract for a stairway
in the tower.
BY some mscalculation, or change
in calculations, al iron spiral stair
way designed for vaults has been de-
clared unavailable for that purpose.
The material lies here on the ground
and the question of using it for the
tower when the commissioner meet
again will be up for their consider
alton, and it is hoped that they will
see fit to authorize the slight ad-
ditional expense necessary to provide
for this stairway.
The view from this tower will be
ample compensation to every TAX
payer who climbs mp there to enjoy
it, The city below, rapidly growing
in beauty as well as size from year to
year, is a most pleasant sight, pro-
vided, of course the eye discreetly
overlooks the too immediate business
portion. But the most thrilling
sight is the vast landscape lying in
view, where the farm lands OF the
county stretch farther than the eyes
aided by the strongest glass can see.
Farm buildings, groves, villages, the
faroff timber belts that mark the
course CT the WIndIng jim,
and beyond it again miles and miles
of fertile farms, checkered to-day
with yellow wheat fields and dark
green corn and grass lands. North
ward the course of the Elm can be
!, traced to where it joins the Jim at
= Columbia after having wound it's
sinuous course for nearly fifty miles
from the northwest through the un-
dulating pastures Of the great pastor
al region OF Brown county Fifteen
miles away, family seen. Columbia
sits by the Jim, but for near
ly thirty miles further beyond the old
county seat stretch the wide plains
where just enough sand in the dark
loan makes a genial soil for corn,
grass and trees-a and where the big
wheat grows this year--in an ideal
region for mixed farming, lie hundreds
more of Brown county farms.
South, past the village of Warner,
over sixteen miles away can be seen
+ the village of Mansfield, which marks
the southern line of the county.
Southwest. twenty-four miles by
wagon road, but nineteen as the birds
fly, the .farthermost farms in New
Hope would be passed. To the south
east, if Imagination supplements the
farthest reach Of vision, across Gar
den Prairie, the banner township for
big crops this year, nearly thirty
miles away, could be seen the hefarthest
southeastern farm within the county
limits.
Its a great, county. and from the
outlook In the tower, .round and
vast the landscape lies,'' . but within
the circle of vision only portion of
Brown county's one million one
u hundred thousand acres is
included. The broad kingdom Of
Brown, without an acre of waste land
in it, has an area greater than either
one of six European countries.
Mr.. Commissioners giveus the stair
way. With our fifteen millions of
taxable property another hundred
dollars won't break us. Now that we
are in for it let's go the whole hog
aud have the stairway. Throngs of
y men and women, boys and girls Of the
d generations to come. will descend its
spiral winnings pToudier than i i hen
q they went up Of the great county of
Il their birth. s
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