Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1903-02-26
THE EYARTS LINE
Nj. l.. Fox Believes Mil
waukee VIII Cross
the Missouri.
Line to the Black Hills Win &C
From Evarts Instead of
Chamberlain.

81 am Informed on good authority that
the Milwaukee & st. Paul railroad will
begin building in the spring, and will
continue for the next two years, until Il
has connected its branches In South
Dakota and has crossed from Evarts to
the Black Hills"
This is the statement of NJ. L. Fox, of
Vermillion, to the Sioux City Tribune a
few days ago.
"You understand that in spite of the
fact that the proposed change of the
capitol from Pierre to Mitchell would
suggest Chamberlain as the point to
cross the Missouri river, the Black Hills
extension will b. built from Evarts?" Mr.
Fox was asked.
II think have 1t on good authority
that the first line to cross the reservation
will be built from Evarts," Mr.. Fox an
swered. "The country west of Aberdeen
is filling up so rapidly that the road re-
CARDS that as Its most promising field
My opinion Is that you will see most
rapid increase In land values west of
Aberdeen; during the next ten years
some OF 1t should quadruple in value"
While Dir. Fox said he knew nothing
about it, it has Deen unders God from
other sources that President Earlin2, of
the Milwaukee s. st. Paul railroad, be-
lieves the Evars route to the hills the
most practicable, while Roswell Miller,
chairman of the board of directors, has
inclined to Chamberlain as the best place
to cross.
Mr.. Fox believes that 1908 will be the
biggest selling year for South Dakota
farm lands. he doesn't expect the land
lockers TO be as numerous, but he thinks
the land buyers will bear a much larger
proportion to the visitors.
"The rush for South Dakota lands"
Mr.. Fox continued. "will open this year
with a much larger number of actual
homeseekers than ever before. | have
just returned from an extended trip
through eastern Iowa and north western
Illinois, and will start at once for north.
ern Missouri. / have talked with land
agents and railroad representatives and
get the same report from all of them.
IL do not look for large number of
people from western Iowa. Crops in,
Iowa have not been first class the past
two years and money is not so plentiful
as formerly. Beside~, the tankers are
doing all in thrir power to keep money
from going outside the state for invest
ment. But there will be fairly large
number of land seekers from this section
and most of them will be looking for
cheap South Dakota lands.
There are nnmbpr of reasons why
land buyers should go to South Dakota
this year. South Dakota produced more
wealth per capita during the years 1900,
1901 and 1902 than any other state in the
union. People have read of the big
crops Of corn and small grain, and the
remarkable production Of cattle and hogs
at small cost. They know that the school
fund will soon make the public schools
of the state selfsupporting, which will
reduce taxes. They know that the farm
ers have paid off their mortgages and
have money in the banks, and that the
state has $500 600 of school money on
hand which is going begging at per
cent.
"rhe many artesian wells which have
been pat in during the past two years
have brought so much water to the sur
face that the danger from hot winds and
drouth has been reduced greatly. Money
Is easier In all the large centers. New
Workers have recently bought western
tracts ranging from $4,000 to 100000
acrer."-Aberdsen News.