Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1903-10-15

EgSs ana poultry .....,,........... bUOo,OVJ
Wool and hides .................. 100000
Garden products and fruit ........ 1000, 900
Minerals, stone and cenIent...... l2eOO.Ooo
Total Observation-Disclosures. s146 45O, 0oO
While corn Is the second product in
total value, the 1903 crop shows an
increase of about thirteen and q half
E.illion bushels over the crop Of 1902
At the rate corn Is being increased in
acreage. the prediction that corn viii
be king Z: South Dakota within few
years, seems to be reasonable. The
total production of new wealth for
1902 was s119,949,000 The increase
of nearly $27,000,000 OF this year Is
sufficient answer to the derogatory re-
ports about the state that have APP
peared within the last fortnight.
Perhaps stronger argument in
favor of the stale IS shown In an ex-
animation Of the bank deposits. In
July, 1901, South Dakota banks had
deposits amounting to s14.000,000.0
on July l, 1902, these amounted TO
$30000.000.00, and On July /. 1903. to
$32 ,000, 100000.
In addition to the money i'll corn.
wheat and the gold Of the Black Hills,
which has been termed the richest
one hundred square miles In the
world, there is good money IN South
Dakota cattle. Men who have come to
South Dakota without money, and
who now count their dollars with Ave
figures. say tGat raising cattle is the
only business in the world fer which
a man can borrow his entire capita
1t is a fact that SCutL Dakota banks
are glad to help any hC most, 'ndastrl-
Gus young man, who Genes well recon-.
mar led for his commercial integrity.
In cattle business and accept his cat
tie as collateral A ban('~ CT Ips-
wich told your corresponds mat dur.
ing twenty years of such loans he had
not lost one cent aud he could name
by the score young men who had Sc
cured from South Dakota banks the
price of their first Ferd Of cattle
A visit to the cattle ranch Of Lee &
Prentis near Ve"million, S. D., was
enc of the interesting features Il the
above mentioned trip. &c & Prentis
ere the largest cate breeders in
south Dakota. They exhibit witt some
pride, among their valuable short
horns, n two-year-old heifer which re-
C-ltly took sweepstakes over the win
her of the sweepstakes at 1902 Inter.
national Live Stock Exposition at Chi
cago. Other shorthorns have just re.
turned from a very victorious tour
among interstate and county fairs,
winning eight first prizes at Sioux
City. eight at Yankton and six at
Huron. There are other stock farms
In the state that show blooded cattle
rot far behind these prize winners.
A large number of the farmers and
stockmen. as well as a majority of the
South Dakota editors have been in at
tendance at the Corn Palace at Mitch
ell during the last week. The South
Dakota Commission to the St Louis
Exposition has just decided to repro
duce the Mitchell Corn Palace as the
South Dakota exhibit, and visitors to
st. Louis will have an opportunity to
see building 140 by 100 feet, the ex-
structed OF corn.
Like other South Dakota towns.
Mitchell Is showing considerable pros.
perity and enterprise this year. The
cornerstone Of the $4,000 city hall
was laid last week; the walls Of a
$780, 900 hotel to be built OF stone and
steel are up above the first floor: a
Carnegie library has been bulls at a
cost of $4,000. and a score OF smaller
buildings are under construction, and
improvements and pavement OF streets
are under way. AS an especial reason
| for such a flne showing at this time.
the last legislature of South Dakota
agreed to submit to voters of the state
| in November, 1904, the question of
| moving the state capitol from Pierre
| to Mitchell. The people of the latter
| town. backed by goodly number of
| those in the most thickly populated
| portions Of the state east of the Mis-.
souri, River, and In the Black Hills
| who will find Mitchell more accessible
than Pierre have already under way
lively campaign by which they eX'
pect to secur1 the capital In Novem
! Der, 1904 The reproduction of the
| Mitchell Corn Palace at the st. Louis
! Exposition is regarded as big card
in their favor.
Dolls are often seen displayed ir
the cottage window of Servia. Trav
elers are informed that they are put
up as a sign to announce to wayfar
ers that manageable daughter
dwells in the house.
In Surinam the thermometer aver
ages rs degrees, and in winter it Ii
only half degree less.
Thirty years is the average age o
an ostrich and the annual yield of ;
bird in captivity is from two to fou
pounds OF plumes. ~
In the prisons of Great Britain
neither male nor female convicts ar
permitted to see mirror during tn
period of their Incarceration.
The largest oak tree in Indian;
was lately cut down on the farm o
Joseph NJ. Johnson, near Amora. A
~Ae base it measured six and a hal
feet in diameter. 1t yielded 6,790 fee
of lumber
man never knows what he can
do until he tries.
Rafferty," said Mr.. Dolan. "are We
payin attintion till the trusts?" g
am that" do yez think they're goir
! to swallow up the country" II had m
! suspicious. But I've been lookin' a
the map There's wathermelons |
George, an peaches in New Jerse!
an California pears on the Pacifi
Coast, not to- m ntion the mineral PR
ducts, sucn as coal, iron, copper, Leaf
an prairie dogs. An I've conclude
that any wan trust that tries, ty swa
low the intire outfit Is in line fur I
! the biggest attacks iv Indigestion 0
!. record"