The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1904-03-31
More Population Figures.

lSoAy pAuO ouuo oohuHS AAAPPiV
Of the Pierre State Register, dips
into his population figure box he
puts his foot into it. In a recent
article he sets out to compare the
gain in population of bunch of
counties in the southern part of
the state with a like area in the
north part Of athe state, but just
what he is trying to get at by such
comparisons is more than the or
dinary man can figure out, as none
Of the territory mentioned is in the
remotest manner contributary to
Pierre. He says:
Between 1890 and 1900 the four
teen counties in the south end Of
the state, including Union, Clay,
Yankton, Bon Homme, Chas. Mix,
Douglas. Hutchinson, Turner, Lin
coin, McCook, Hanson, Dawson,
Aurora and Brule, gained & total
population Of 1859. In the same
period the ten extreme north coun-
ties, Campbell, Mcpherson, Wal
worth, Edmunds, Brown, Mar
shall, Day, Grant, Codington, and
Roberts gained 22,332, proving
conclusiyely that the whole state
has been prospering.
Johnnie's figures are off some
according to the census reports,
but that does not matter. He was
probably a little excited when he
added his columns. They are ap-
proximately correct, and even if
they were not we don't see why
they cut any ice anyway.
1t is interesting to note how cum
ningly the Pierre fellows try to
make comparisons between the
south part of the state and the
northern portion, as if to contra
dict some assertions on the part Of
Mitchell. Mitchell isn't trying to
pull the capital away from Aber-
deem or from any other town in the
north half of the state. But you'd
think SO by the way the Pierre
crowd bang away on those kind Of
propositions.
But since Pierre has invited it,
it is interesting to note that of the
21,763 gain in the north counties
the Register mentions Chat is the
actual gain they did make) Rob
erts county alone gained nearly
half Of it by the opening of the Sis
seton reservation, and the remain
ing II, 900 nearly all Of it was in
NJ NJ larshalI, Day, Grant and Coding-
ton-on the extreme east line of
the state.
The other counties Campbell,
McPharson, WalWorth and Ed
munds, did we'll, considering their
undeveloped resources, but the
great fact remains that South Da-
kota's gain i'll population during
the period mentioned-from 1890
to 190O-was confined almost ex-
clusively to the counties along the
eastern border of the state-the
exception being Chas. Mix, Grego-
ry, the counties in the extreme
south end and a few counties in
the Black Hills.
The counties contiguous te
Pierre, Hughes, Sully, Potter
Hand and Faux, lost nearly 5000
population in that period, Potter
county being the only one OF the
bunch to hold its own.
Over in Stanley county the.
managed to add 313 to the popu
Ilation in the ten years during th'
same time that Roberts count,
picked up 10,219and Stanle.
county is as big as three Of Rob
erts.
So while we will agree with John
ME that all parts Of the state j
prosperings the most striking par
of it8appears to be away from th
present 90 pital rather than toWarl
The Mitchell fellows have aIto
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