Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1905-04-13
Pointing Towards Pierre.

- coming IOWdIGS sEISIAS,. 55s.t 4
IA person familiar with the prospects
land apparent advantages Of cities ike
I Est. Paul, Omaha Kansas City or Den
/ yer i'll their earlier days well remember
that they lit that time possessed but
flew special advantages that were plain
1ly apparent,
i Pierre possesses already practically
every advantage that anyone OF these
Eplaees had and many more III addition.
lsshe has the splendid l prairie sol IS sur
rounding her that Omaha OF Kansas
ICltyhad also fine location on a large
]nayigable river. She has also the
mineral wealth, including coal that
Denver has had to make her a great
lefty of nearly 100000 people. she has
1.-THE State Capital and the timber lands
tributary, which were st. paul's leading
advantages. La addition to these, She
lhas the great advantage OF natural gas
| and also Of the finest medicinal water
and artesian wells anywhere in the
world. Thus, il is seen, she has the
combined advantages OF all these larger
cities.
The only thing today standing in the
way Of her being absolutely assured Of
making as large or larger a city than
any Of these is the securing Of more
railroads and this now begins to show
evidence OF certainly developing in The
very near future
The great Chicago & Northwestern
railroad running two passenger trains
daily direct from Chicago to Pierre, is
now planning to extend their main
line from Pierre to thes Black Hills
country, 100 miles west OF Pierre. The
Milwaukee system last year built to-
ward Pierre into ,Jerauld county, the
third county east of here, and undoubt
eddy expect to extend line 10 miles
farther into Pierre in the near future.
The Great Northern is now into
Aberdeen and is working and planning
to get down to Pierre, likely yet this
yStlis a nv ANOItiiCiIl i eliiiISa 10 tlioO
pointing in this direction and the great
500 line has recently built down into
.Sluth Dakota from the north pointing
directly fGT Pierre. The ElkEorn last
year extended from Nebraska up into
Gregory county iii South Dakota, di-
fettiy south of Pierre, and their charter
ug i,.t -
The Illinois Central and the Rock
Island are both at Sioux Falls pointing
in this direction and ambitious to &C
quire some of this Immense traffic from
the west. The Minneapolis ~ ST
Louis and the Chicago & Great West
efn are both working in this direction
from the east, the leading officials OF
Que OF theseroads having nadea special
trip Of inspection to Pierre last fall.
The Burlington system III the Black
Hills has thisEwinter bought q small in3
road called the Ft Pierre "
Black Hill Ry, and are undoubtedly
planning to extend line to the Mis-
souri, river here at Pierre. The Wa
bash system is not far off, looking in
this direction for more business. Thus
we have twelve great distinct railway
systems all apparently planning to de-
yelop new lines iii this great new eonn-ts
try surrounding Pierre and to the west. !
Other new lines, like the Bismarck &
Galveston and the Midland Pacific are
projected and some OF these will ma
terialize into great enterprises
1t does not at at this time take a re-
markedly far sighted Oh shrewd mind
to see that Pierre is The most promising
small city in our great country today.
1t is doubtful ii there is more favor
able spot anywhere in the world to in
vest small amoants of money i'll real /
estate al this time than i'll this young
future great.
Every large city was one day young
and small and there are certainly nu
small cities Of today that will |
be large cities in the next generation.
Here. with more actual advantages
and prospects than any other point
which can be found among the young
smaller cities OF this continent, must /
be one of these comiag cities. And
any person Of this generation who
wished to be certainof building a for,
tnlla Tor their old age Or for their child |
rem to start life with can be practically
certain Of accomplishing this result and
likely much sooner than they will ex-
eectby investing a5feW hundred dollars
N Pierre ut this time, Pierre Rustlef