The herald-advance. (Milbank, S.D.) 1890-1922, 1904-08-05

which we're rich and productive in
their certain lines. Pierre was also
busy those years ad vertising the free
range country, the train after train
of cattle, horses, sheep and wool
shipments sent out of the grazing
country.
In 1901, Mitchell was again adver-
Using the state by Q new and enlarged
Corn Palace, which brought thousands
of people into the state who scattered
out all over the eastern half and
bought property if the locality where
they visited pleased the land locker
and stock grower. Pierre vas adver-
Using her part of the state as a cattle,
horse and sheep country, where stock
could s'roam 1T will" with only a
normal cost to the owner on the free
ranges west of the Missouri river.
In 1902, Mitchell again enlarged its
facilities for advertising the Corn
Palace and the state and thousands
upon thousands of people came to see
the great and unique display of the
cereal products grown in the various
counties of the state and Pierre was
still advertising her free cattle range
country and large shipments of live
stock grown by the prosperous ranch
men at Pierre and west Of the Missouri
river.
In January, 1908, a state legislature,
by q vote of five to one, resubmitted
the location of the state capital to a
vote of the people because Of popular
demand for having the seat of state
government where the people could be
better accommoda ted in reaching it at
q much less cost to themselves. Sud
denly conditions changed with the
advertising propositions in the state
SO far as Pierre was concerned.
In the summer and fall of 1908,
Mitchell was again advertising the
state with q large Corn Palace, which
drew thousands of people here and the
states resources were Displayed by
the Mitchell people, as in former years.
The grain growing, stock raising and
gold productions were talked to all the
new arrivals who came into the state.
Pierre now began to call Mitchell and
the friends of the removal of the state
capital knockers of the state," who
wants to injure the state sby calling
the free range country at Pierre aud
west of the Missouri river a stock
raising and stock grazing country,
where farming was not a success.
Pierre began to advertise those
counties west of the river mot a good
live stock country" but a farming
country where train load after train
load were monthly arriving to each
take 100 acres of productive agricul-
tural land to raise grain and do all
sorts of diversified farming, and any
one who said that those counties would
not support as large a population as
the eastern counties of the state we're
knocking the state"
On this proposition Pierre and her
hired supporters have gone wild. The
Pierre Free Press recently said: 'The
big range business is all shot to pieces
in the western half of the state" and
whether he be banker, ranchman,
farmer or commisiOnman he cannot
deny IT, The Press then goes on to
say, s'The evidence of this dilapidated
condition of the big cattle business is
found in the precarious financial con-
dition Of the cattle kings whose sup
posed thousands would shrink to
nothingness under the pressure that
could be brought to bear if deemed
ADVISABLE
They are so alarmed about losing
the state capital that they are willing
to bring the eastern lOaners OF money
down on the range cattlemen west OF
the river with a foreclosure of their
mortgages in the next 60 days or as
500 as the beef cattle are fit for the
slaughter house.
what would the Pierre capital boom
ers say about Mitchell 'knocking the
state" if any one of Mitchell's sup
porter had ever made such a state
ment as the Pierre Free Press made
less than a month ago?
In 1904, Mitchell is advertising the
state through the Great Corn Palace
again, which will bring hundreds and
thousands of people into South Da-
kota who will become citezens Of our
commonwealth, while Pierre will tell
the people this year ''that the big
range business is all shot to pieces"
and that the cattlemen are in a pre-
carious financial condition. in order
to fool people into %believeing that the
5000 original homestead entries made
in the Pierre and Chamberlain land
districts since July l, 1902, means that
the west halt of the state will support
as many people as the east half
although the ''cattle kings" there are
in a "precarious financial condition"
Let Pierre quit "knocking' the state
by bringing down the Shylocks on the
cattlemen west of the river. and also
by offering to sell city lots within a
block of the center of Pierre and the
street a line for s175 each "and 1910
acres of land adjoining the capital
grounds for $500 or less than $40 an
acre."
Indeed, Pierre sis all shot to
pieces. mitchell Gazette.