The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1904-06-10
MORE PIERRE GAS
How Pierre VIII Not Save the State
a Million Dollars

How Pierre Will (Not) Save the State
a Million Dollars
Pierre has sprung another fake.
This time it has gone to the founda-
tion of most of the stuff sent out by
the capital bureau and press cores
pondents: GAS.
The subjoined item has been sent
out to all the organs OF the capital
committee, with orders to "chuck it
In" even IL it is rank.
When the permanent capital build
ing is built it will cost at least $4,000
a year tax for fuel and light and eleva-
tor power il 1T should be at Mitchell
where fuel would have to be purchas-.
ed... With natural gas at Pierre, the
state can put down an artesian we'll
and with Its own natural gas furnish
fuel, lights and elevator power free, as
we'll as furnish water for sewerage.
The state appropriated as much as.
$4,000 year ten years ago (sec Ses-
sion laws 1909 for fuel and light at
the Yankton hospital. Now THE APP
preparation is included in the $4,000
a year appropriation and amounts to
| V4CjOOO Il llO Supl-
/ tai at Pirrre means a saving Of $l5, 1000
to S25, 900 ifor fuel and water alone.
The state will spend 81, 900, 600 tax be-
tween 1901 and 1860 for fuel, light and
water for the state house and grounds
il the capital goes to Mitchell. The
state can get an artesian we'll on it's
own grounds at Pierre for $4,000 that
will save this million dollar fuel bill.
If you favor the coal trust and 500 coal
like one year ago vote for Mitchell.
Now wouldn't that kill you? Nit
chell is 160 miles nearer the coal sup
ply of the country than Pierre-which
partly accounts for the fact that while
Pierre was paying $40 ton last win
ter there was plenty Of it in Mitchell
at sl1.
The total appropriation for main
tainancc for the capitol building at
Pierre amounts to $4,000 year. This
in the face of the fact that you can
throw a cat through shack and not
hurt the cat-a building that has by
its draughts of cold air caused the
death Of several members Of the legis
| ull0 4ttlO ~ oCOlC VI lllOlC Oll
sick beds at every session. If it only
cost $4,000 a year to maintain shack
like that how much would it cost to
heat and light a modern stone building,
like the temporary capitol building
now up going in Mitchell? About half
which means not one-tenth part Of
a million dollars in a half hundred
years. While Pierre was at it, why
didn't it figure out the cost for a
thousand years? A state house is no
hospital-outside of Pierre.
Before the state would experiment
with gas were it the intention to
leave the capital where it is-Pierre
would have to demonstrate that it
was to be had. Just now there is no
more than enough to supply the cap
ital committee and before the cam
paign is over there won't be any left.
This gas business at Pierre needs a
little yentilating. The business con-
Germs in the town use kerosene, ben
zine and acetylene gas in preference
to it. Anybody who has ever used
natural gas for lighting purposes
knows what 1T is-a rank fraud. In
about six years Pierre has drilled five
wells, at cost Of about Sl5 ,000 and it
has no more gas thar when the first
we'll was completed. Recently, when
the last great gusher" was complet.
ed, No. 4 1.-THE well put down just pre-.
ceeding it) stopped flowing and the
town was out Of gas completely until
connection was made with the new
we'll. If any other than the city
whether the state of South Dakota or
not-was to attempt to put down a
well he or they would be enjoined at
the drop of the hat, as it has been full.
ly demonstrated that another well
would cut the city off from it's supply,
The talk of supplying a state house
| with gas is therefore pure rot. Many
days now the gas at Pierre is shut GD
from supplying those who use it te
allow the receiver to fill up. In tho
winter the regular order of business
is to cut it off from the resident par
of the town from to 6. p. m. eyer;
day. AT the price the city now SELL
the gas to consumers no one could af
ford to use it for heating purposes.
would cost four times the price o
coal.
In Ohio and Pennsylvania are hun
dreds upon hundreds of "dry" holes
any one Of which spouted more gas Il
a minute than Pierre eyer saw or vii
see-whole districts that produced
in unlimited quantities that no
can't make good smell. Pierre don
know what good gas will looks lik,
And yet it sends out million doll;
cock and bull story and asks lntell
gent people to believe it. The Piatl
for capital organs that have publishe
it must take their readers for fools.