The Holly chieftain., 1903-10-16

The following is a conservative eSt1-
mate OF the products OF the state and
their value for 1903:
Product Bushels Value.
w neat .................- .ou.UUvU S35pp,VD
Corn .....................t0. .t0.0O0OoO 2lup.vo
oats ..-..................3O 3O,vOOuO IlWp,Uo
Harley ................,ll,O 100000 4Ooo.ovl
ihk ...,............--... Z,Wpvo 2,pp,oD
rye OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES. l,oDU OJO boU.up
Live STOCK ...........,.-........-... 32,p9.pD
DAIRY and creamery. y................ 1000, 900
Esgs and poultry .................. 5.OoO.Ovv
Wool and hides .................. 100000
Garden products and fruit........ 1900. .OO0
Minerals, stone and cement. l2,CcO.OD
Total ........................... .*li6. oO.oto
While corn is the second product in
total value, the 1903 crop shows an
increase of about thirteen and a half
E.illion bushels over the crop of 1902.
At the rate corn is being increased in
acreage the prediction that corn will
be king in South Dakota within few
years, seems to be reasonable. The
total production of new wealth for
1902 was $1l9.949,OOO The increase
of nearly $27000,000 of this year is
sufficient answer to the derogatory re-
ports about the state that have ap-
peared within the last fortnight.
Perhaps a stronger argument in
favor of the state Is shown in an ex-
animation Of the bank deposits. In
uly, 1901, South Dakota banks had
deposits amounting to $4,000. 100000:
on July /, 1902, these amounted to
$50 900 100000, and on July /, 1903, to
$32, 900, 10000.
In addition to the money in 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 five
figures. say tLat raising cattle is the
only business in the world for which
n man can borrow his entire capita.
1t is fact that South Dakota banks
are glad to help any he nest, industri-
Gus young man, who comes well recon-
men led for his commercial integrity,
In cattle business and accept his cat
tie as collateral. A banker of Ips-.
wich told your correspondent that dur
ing twenty years of such loans he had
not lost one cent and he could name
by the score young men who had Sc
cured from South Dakota banks the
price of their first erd of cattle.
A visit to the cattle ranch of Lee &c
Prentis near Vermllion, S. d., was
/ one of the interesting features tf the
above mentioned trip. Lee & Prentis
are the largest catt.e breeders in
south Dakota. They exhibit with some
pride, among their valuable short
horns, two-yearold heifer which re-,
emily took sweepstakes over the wins'
her of the sweepstakes at 1902 Inter-
national Live Stock Exposition at Chi
cago. Other shorthorns have just re-
turned from very victorious tour
among interstate and county fairs.
winning eigh- first prizes at Sioux
City. eight at Yankton and six at
Huron. There are other stock farms
In the state that show booded cattle
rot far behind these prize winners.
A large number of the farmers and
stockmen, as well as majority of the
South Dakota oiitcrs 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
Souun Dakota exhibit. and visitors to
st. Louis will have an opportunity to
see building 40 by 100 feet, the ex-
terror Of which will re entirely con-
structed of corn.
Like other South Dakota towns,
Mitchell is shoy' ng considerable pros
perity and enterprise this year. The
cornerstone of the $4,000 city hall
was laid last week; the walls of a
$4,000 hotel to be built of stone and
steel are up above the first floor
Carnegie library has been buii. at
cost of $4,000, ard score of smaller
buildings are under construction, and
improvements and pavement of streets
are under way. AS an especial reason
for such a fine 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 a goodly number Of
those in the most thickly populated
portions Of the state east of the Mis-
souri, River, and In the Black Hills,
Eho will find Mitchell more accessible
than Pierre, have already under way
a lively campaign by which they ex-
pect to secur, the capital in Novem-
ber. 1904. The reproduction Of the
Mitchell Corn Palace at the st. Louis
Exposition is regarded as big card
in their favor