Forest City press. (Forest City, Potter County, D.T. [S.D.]) 1883-19??, 1904-09-29
A RECORD ALMOST
WITHOUT PRECEDENT
Per Capita Wealth Produced
This Year in South Dakota
Is S297.oI.
LEADS ALL THE STATES
While the Wheat Crop Is Short This
Year Other Crops Will More
Than Bring Up the
Average.
LEADS ALL THE STATES

Sioux Falls. $. d.. Sept. 23-The pre-
ent year. notwithstanding that tn,
whea crop of the state is over twenty
millions of bushels short of What it was
last year. because of damage done by
rust just at a time when the crop was
nearly ready TO be harvested, will take
its place, as one Of the most prosperous
In h history of South Dakota.
1t has been the boast of every South
Dakotan for six or sever years that the
state, in proportion to population, has
year by year during that period pro-
duced more new wealth than any other
state In the union And the interesting
feature about these boasts was hat
they were fully substantiated by fig
ures that could not be disputed.
1t was feared that owing to the grest
reduction of this years wheat crop by
rust the state This year could not keep
pace with the records of other years IN
the production of new wealth.
More Wealth Than Last Year.
But ii is shown by n careful and sys-
ematic investigation that the produce
ton of new wealth this year exceeds
the production of new wealth last year
by over ten millions of dollars.
This is accounted for by the fact that
the state never raised larger crops OF
bar-ey. oats and flax than this year.
and that the wheat crop. although
more than 10000 900 bushels below what
it was in 1908. is bringing a much larger
price per bushel than 1t did LAST year.
Because OF this fact. the value of the
wheat product of the state for 1904 IS
only about $1,000. 900 less than the
value of last years wheat crop.
This years corn crop is also larger
fbrp the rprp cvnu of 1909 and ic worth
aho,t 5000 coo more than that of last
year.
Placing thu wheat acreage Of Sout'..
Dakota at 3.T66. 543. and the average
yield at 3 bushels per acre, the state
this year produced a total of 81. S9S, 1897
bushels of wheat.
The barley acreage was 400. 900, and
with an average yield of thirty-three
bushels per acre would make a total of
II. 200. coo bushels raised in the state
this year.
The yield of oats this year reached a
total of g.. 200. 900 bushels, estimating on
an acreage of S25. 900 and an average
yield of forty bushels per acre.
Flax yielded an average of tO.5 BUSH
els per acre. and with a total of $50, 900
acres devoted to this crop in h state
gives n yield Of 3,675, 900 bushels.
The corn crop. estimating on an acre
age Of 1850, 016, which is the same as
last year, figuring at an average
yield of thirty bushels to the acre
amounts to $500, $50 bushels for the
state this season.
The Total Production.
The production Of new wealth In
South Dakota for the year 1904 aggre-
gates $14S. 956, 663. as compared with
$13S. 597. $50 for the year 1903, nm in
crease OF $40. 1858, 9l3 over that of last
year.
The new wealth produced this year h
divided as follows: Wheat, $33. 1895, SS7:
barley. SO, 696. 900: oats. So, 250. coo; fax,
$4.O05. $50: corn, $20.606. 026; live stock
from farms and ranges $40. 900. 000i
dairy and creamery. 81. 900, 900: eggs and
poultry. $4,000. 600: hay, $40, 900, 900; hides
and wool. $500, 900: garden products
and fruit. $4,000, 900; Black Hills gold
product. $40. 600. 900: stone and cement
$780, 0o. making a total of $14S. $50. 663.
Estimating on a basis Of 500, 900 popu-
lation. which is an increase Of sc. 200
during the past few years. his would
make a per capita production of new
wealth of $297.9 for every man, woman
and child in South Dakota. including
the 10000 Indians who are residents of
the state.
Thus the production Of new wealth
in South Dakota for the year 1904
amounted TO $1,4S9.55 for each family
In the state, figuring that n family con-
sisted of Ave persons.
This is certainly a record which far
surpasscs that Of any other state In
the union. population considered, and
keeps South Dakota in the vanguard
of states SO far as the per capita pro.
duction of new wealth Is concerned.