The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-08-05
RANGE ALL SHOT TO PIECES

RANGE ALL SHOT TO PIECES
who IL the "KnOcker> When
Pierre's Own Beloved Home
Papers Will Say Grange
All Shot to Pieces"
Because Mitchell capital supporters
say that the counties OF this state,
situated west of q north and south line
from Pierre, are a stock raising and
stock grazing country the Pierre real
estate boomers and their hired news
papers accuse Mitchell's friends of
s'knocking' the state. Mitchell does
not take off its hat to any town In this
state as an advertiser OF the states
products? In 1883 Mitchell provided
4 for, and held, an interstate fair, which
paid out s11, 900 in premiums, and
Pierre was asking for a government
appropriation to erect q river dixie.
In 1884 Mitchell provided for an inter-
state fair, which paid out . 1900 in
premiums, and Pierre was asking for
q government appropriation to build
an ice harbOr.
In 1885, Mitchell, through an agri-
cuctural board, provided for a state
fair and paid out 81, 1000 in premiums,
and Pierre was asking congress for q
government Indian college.
In 1886, Mitchell, through q board
of agriculture, was again advertising
q state fair that paid out about 81, 600
in premiums and Pierre was asking
congress for an appropriation for q
government building.
In 1887, Mitchell was advertising q
state fair and Pierre vas asking for
! $50, 900 appropriation to build q dyke
to protect the city from the Missouri
river high waters.
In 1883, Mitchell was advertising
the Corn Belt District, a great pro-
Queer of crops,a and Pierre was CLAM
oring for division of the territory and
a state capital.
In 1889, Mitchell was advocating
statehood and advertising ! county
fair, and Pierre still wanted congress
to give none to dyke the Missouri
river and the people to give them the
state capital.
In 1890, Mitchell was advertising the
| statethrough the Corn Belt Real Estate
| Association, and incidentally asking
for the state capital, the first thing
| she had ever asked, and Pierre was
, asking congress for a government
building, an ice harbor, a bulk-head
dyke, a state capital, a railroad from
Pierre to Aberdeen, from Pierre to
Sioux Falls, via Hyde, Hand, Buffalo,
Jerauld, Sanborn, Aurora, Miner,
Lake, Dawson, Hanson, McCook and
Moody counties, called the Midland
Pacific railway. Pierre was also
building that year on extension OF the
Northwestern line to the Black Hills
and filing homesteaders along the
line near town sites.
In 1891, Mitchell was advertising the
states productive u through
the Corn Belt Real Estate Association,
ana Pierre was busy trying to sell
gumbo lots in St. Louis addition,
Chicago addition, Milwaukee addition,
Well first and second additions,
Pratt's addition, Tracy's addition,
the Woonsocket Capital Investment
Co.'s lots in six Or eight different
additions to Pierre and East Pierre.
In 1892, Mitchell was advertising the
states resources through the Corn Belt
Real Estate Association and through
the first, Corn Palace in the northwest
outside of Sioux City and with this
years work Mitchell brought thous-
ands of people into the state that went
away praising South Dakota, while
Pierre was busy trying to sell gumbo
lots, and collect from the hum
dreds upon hundreds of r~oped-in
people who had bought them during
the capital contest two years before,
paying five and ten times their value.
Pierre was also asking for further
time to pay the interest on their $780,
600 outstanding capital bonds of the
city, the township and the school dis
~tricts, and wanting congress to appro-
pirate more money for ice harbors,
dykes and government buildings.
In 1898, Mitchell was still advertis-
ing this states source with a mag
n~ificent Corn Palace and aiding the
Corn Belt Real Estate Association,
while Pierre was asking the govern
ment for money to make public build
ings, ice harbors and dykes, and the
outsiders to pay taxes or their 20, 600
different city lots three and five miles
in the country. Pierre did not stop
at that, however, in 1903. She then
began to advertise the land west of the
Missouri river as the best cattle graz
ing and free range country on earth
for any one wishing to raise and Craze
cattle. The free range law, the brand
law and the wolf bounty law made
this a great country for cattle, horse
and sheep ranches. Hughes county,
OF which Pierre is the county seat, was
also advertised as a cattle range
country where the nutricious native
buffalo and alkali grasses made the
yearllng steer an OK when two years
old and the yearling Hereford heifer a
cow at two. Homesteaders we're told
to stay away from this natural cattle
country unless they were prepared to
60 exclusively into live stock raising.
This was the first year that Pierre