The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1903-09-11
IRRIGATION
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M. l.. Fox Writes Of the Plans
of the Governmental Water
Semi Arid Lands.
CAPTAIN SETH BULLOCK
lie Administered a Rebuke in Latin
to a Correspondent Who Had
Written Woolly Stories
About Him.

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Deadwood, S. D., Sept. 7.-Governmene
engineers are IN Butte and Meade countles
east Of here making surveys preliminary
to experiments in irrigation under the ace
passed by the last congress. Ihe preseht
program includes the sinking OF arteslah
wells, the erection OF dams Tor the stol.
age of surface water and a system o1
bitches BY which 1t is hoped that about
400, coo acres Of land ma be added to the
sure crop area. The value of irrigation III
this region has been demonstrated ny
farmers who have damned the small
streams and gulches, thus storing the wa
ter from the SHOWS and spring rains ana
conveying 1t by means of small dltches 70
the low lands on theils farms. Ihls 1nooess
method has increased. to an astonishing
extent, the annual production OF wheat,
oats, alfalfa and potatoes, and the iahd
has been q%uadrupled in value. The plans OF
the government include the irrigation OF
additional large areas OF land lying pe-
tween Belle Fourche and EVarts on the
Missouri river. 1t is quite probable that the
increased value of this land and the GER
tainty that it will be taken up by perma-
nent settlers has materially fastened the
plans of the C. M. &. St. p. Railroad COM
pany which has determined to extend its
line from Evarts either to Belle Fourche
or Sturgts. One of the most prominent
cattlemen Of the Black Hills returned
from New York a few weeks ago and is
known to have stated that he had assur-
ances that such a line will be built during
the next two years. The territory through
which such a line would pass has a large
area of good farming lands regardless Of
irrigation prospects,, and the people or the
Black Hills feel sure that they are to
have a railroad before a great while which
. x.{J1 ~ m t1ap, r,,{t1 tho AQSfarn mart
of the state.
The Errors Of fasteners.
Each day brings to the Hills a number
of tourists from points west Of Chicago,
and the surprise they express at seeing
such evidences of civilization Is amusing.
Most of them Xpect to see Aka Ike
buckskin suit, broad trimmed hat. re-
volvers and scalping knive, long hair and
q Winchester rifle. lounging at the sta
lion, looking for a man to Kill. All OF them
expected to see Spotted Tail and his
braves in gaudy blankets and war bon.
nets. Queer that they should forget that
only q few years ago nearly all the peo-
pie of the Black Hills were residents of
old settled states, and, it may be said in,
passing, that there are probably more men.
In Deadwood with diplomas from the big
universities Of the east than may be found
In any other city Of similar size In tho
United States. To be sure there ara
frontiersmen here; some Of them wero
49ers In California; but most of that class
left a few years ago for Nome. Valdez,
Circle City or South Africa. They will be
found always seeking the outposts OF civil
~ization, focklng to each new gold field
classes who find organized society irk-
+, some,
Seth Bullock.
Seth Bullock has been a familiar chat
acter in the Hills since Deadwood was or
ganized. He has figured as q business man,
politician, sheriff and captain of rough
riders, but he was discovered by the
metropolitan newspapers in 1900 when
Colonel Roosevelt made his cam
vice president. Bullock is a per-
sonal friend of the president: and as
such, has become the subject OF much
newspaper gossip, all of which has been
without authorization on his part, and
much Of which has been false. The story
that there was a plan on foot, by demo-
Gratis or populists, to break up the Roose-
Welt meeting in 1900 and that Bullock sent
word to the ringleaders that he would be
on the platform with his guns, was a
falsehood, without any shred Of founda-
ton except that Roosevelt was there and
that Bullock was there. The story sent
out a few years ago that there had been
shouts intended to be offensive while Mr..
Bryan was speaking was equally false.
The people Of the Hills are free from
rowdyisn. Of hat sort; they Ike to have
distinguished men visit them, listen with
interest and respect to public speakers
and then vote about as they please.
Bullock Rebukes in Latin.
A good story is told of how Bullock ad.
ministered a rcbuke in a unique way to
the Chicago correspondent who was re-
sponsible for the lie. In Colonel Roose-
velt's party We're a number of friends and
newspaper men. Captain Bullock decided
to send to each of them a ring made Of
Black Hills gold as a souvenir of the &C.
casion. About the time the rings were
ready for delivery an article appeared
over the signature, III. I. c." in the Chi
cage Record, giving the story of Bullock's
alleged intimidation of the rowdies who
would have Interrupted Roosevelt and de-
failing. many blood and thunder stories in
Which Bullock was portrayed as q kind Of
"Red Ralph, the Terror of Cory Gulch"
Bullock was angry, and the correspondent
was too far away to be kicked. He had
one of the rings inscribed III. r. G
facet" Mr. Bullock does not pretend to
know mucn of the Latin language h,t
he had heard the familiar phrase SO often
used In memorial day orations, "H.c
facet" GIere he lies). and with invinci-
Bile logic he reasoned that facet" must
mean "he lies" and the correspondent
initials spelled "hic.'' A Harvard profas.
sor would not have lone it that way hr.
Cicero, with his passion for puns. would
have regarded 1t as a feat to be proud Of
How H. 1. c. facet" regarded II has
,ever been told in South Dakota, at least
NJ. l.. Fox.
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