Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1904-07-21

instead of being dead in this com
muni:y was very much alive. The
parties who had been furnished with
transportation because of their sup
posed influence were found unable
to deliver their entire neighborhood.
Others who had been promised tran
sportation were found to live in
communities where neither they nor
anyone else could change the senti
ment SO as to make it favor Mitchell.
As they could not deliver the goods
transportation was not furnished and
the Mitchell boomers in this county
were told that it would not be forth
coming but they did not have the
courage to come out honestly and
tell the reason why but still held
and in fact are still holding several
persons in this county waiting for
transportation that they know has
been refused. This is the reason
why transportation has not been
issued to all applicants. The Mil
waukee railroad is too wise to give
something for nothing will
not issue transportation for the votes
to be cast IN a community where
they know that the Pierre sentiment
is so strong that it cannot be
changed.
What would the state gain by
moving the capital to Mitchell?
Absolutely nothing. Worse than
nothing. The state would be com
PEELED to move into a building owned
by Mitchell from which it could be
compelled to move at any time. The
state would o be compelled to
purchase capitol grounds in Mitchell
when she already owns twenty acres
of the finest grounds for a capital
that can be found anywhere. The
capital does increase the value of
the lands around it and as most of
the state land is located in the vicin-
ity of Pierre the state will be the
party that would be hurt the most
financially by removing the capital.
The voters are not going to vote
value away from the lands that are
already in rents furnishing a hand
some rental that goes to the support
Of the schools of this state, and that
are destined in time to do away
absolutely with the tax for school
purposes in this state. The exhibit
tions Of grains grown in Hughes,
Sully, Stanley and Hyde counties at
the Yankton fair last year was the
very best grown in the state. Why
do Mitchell papers speak of the
great growth across the river.
Simply because it is news of such
wide comment that any paper would
not dare omit it from it's news col
umns. 1t is hearlded to the world
in all the papers of the country,
Chicago, Minneapolis, St. Paul and
Sioux city papers daily have columns
about the great growth of the former
Sioux reservation. Who are these
people that are moving into that
s%ectiony They are the farmers of
Iowa, Illinois, Missouri. and ever
from the eastern part of South
Dakota who are moving onto the
land across the river because the
high rents and high prices of lands
in their former homes have made
them seek Kew places to establish
their f.esides and make homes
for then children. They are the
very bess judges in the world
of agricultural land and that is the
reason they are taking homesteads
near Pierre, because that is the best
land yet open to entry under the
free land laws of Uncle Sam. This
land is no different from the Rose
bud only that the Rosebud is nearer
the thickly settled Iowa and Neb-
raska and older sections Of this state
and is for that reason, and that rea-
son alone, more valuable. An ~artesian
we'll at Pierre will furnish fuel and
light for the state house and do away
with that expense for all time. This