The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1905-11-17
RIVERSIDE STOCK FARM
J. H. Creighton Becomes the Owner
of j. R. Whites eso acre
Farm at Riverside,

j. II. White is one of the pioneer
settlers of South Dakota and is
prominently known in Dawson and
Hanson COUNTIES. We make tile fol-
loving extracts from q recent issue
of the Alexandria Herald in giving
a detailed mention OF his experience
as an extensive breeder and feeder:
"White's mill above Firesteel.s
was a phrase frequently used by the
settlerSfOf both Hanson and Dawson
counties, and, for that matter. by
all OF those who settled in that part
of the territory lying between the
Missouri and Vermillion rivers and
south Of K%ingsbury county as early
as 1880. For through its busy hop
per passed a large portion Of tue first
the patches and "irebreaks'' first
products almost entirely, depended
the Inhabitants of the territory men
toned for their breadstutfs. Mr..
White, in company with Thomas Sco-
field. came 10 Dakota from the vi
cinlty OF LeGrand. Iowa in the fall
OF 1879, and from BARTLETT Tripp Of
Yankton, purchased the land in sec
tion IS, township lO3 and range SO,
now Hanson township, and upon
which. during the fall of 1879 aud
year or 80, the grist mill was con-
%structed. According to the best in
formation o%btainable, the mill was
the third of its kind in the terri
tory, the first being located at Find
lay, On the Ve1mililon river in
Turner county. and built by =. j.
Mcintyre in 1875, and the second was
the present Rockport mill, built by
Elm Spring Colby in 1873.
Mr.. White is a native of North.
Carolina, where he vas born in 1850.
and where he lived until four year.
of age, when his father moved to
Henry county. Indiana. In Indiana
he received a most liberal education,
graduating from Edriham college at
Richmond in 1874. One year, later
he moved to Iowa and assumed the
my. in which position he continued.
until the fall of 1875, when he re-
moved with his family to the present
home IN Hanson township. 14
His first experience with thorough
bred farm stock dates from about
1885, when he engaged in the breed
ing OF registered Poland China hogs.
The business was continued for a
petiod8 of four or i've years, during
which as many as Is or 100 head were
Kept at one time; much breeding
stock was sold, and at an exhibition
lOf his stock at the state fair, held in.
Aberdeen in the fall of 1883, prac-
ideally the entire list of premiums
awardeo by the society for that class
of stock was secured by him. Fol-
lowing the Thoroughbred swine bust
ness his next step In the farm stock
business vas the breeding and feed
ing for market Of high grade Sh1op-
shire sheep, and of which class Of
stock his iocks have. at times since
Numbered 500 head.
In cattle breeding he began at, an
early date, using. native cows and
registered Shorthorn sire, which
lyears ago, when he changed. to d reg
istered Polled-Angus sire. The long
continued line of crossing with the
Shortborn stock has produced a class
IOf excellent brood cOws from which,
in turn. the introduction of Angus
IbloOd has been capable of, and has
resulted in producing class OF beef
animals second to none in the county,
III, indeed, their equal can be pro-
duced.
In 1895 the White & Scholtield part
nership in the grist mill was dis
solved, MI. Scheduled assuming ex-
elusive prOpietOrship of the mill, end
Mr.. White engaging In the grain bust
ness at RivsI5ide. on the C.. st. p. M.
s. q. railroad where lie built an ele-
vator. A few years later the grain
business was d. iposed OF and Mr..
4 White has since devoted his entire
attention to his farm interests.
Allied grains raised are consumed
on the farm, and frequently consider
able quantities are purchased for
feeding purposes. Raising wheat for
commercial purposes has proven fair
ly remunelative but IN MI. Whites
with stock raising and rotated with
cultivated crops is capable Of better
results. a careful student of feed
properties and their comparative
values, Mr.. White has been able. not
only to decide intelligently OF the
pacticabiltty of Their different uses,
|but to secure from such uses the
lgreatest possible ratio Of profit,
which fact has attributed in great
measure 10 his success in the live
stock business.
Asked If at any time during the
Ozark period'' OF Dakota's farm his
tory his faith in the country had
wavered, lie said, IL broke a patch
OF bottom land for my first garden,
and when IN the following spring 1
went forth to plant my vegetables,
and had dug down to a deplh from
which it would seem that no. seed
could ever see the light ii it...were
deposited there, without discovering
SO much as a sign of moisture, it was
with some difficulty that I resisted
the temptation to abandon the
country and return to the east and
| have often thought since how mar
rowly | averted serious mistake"
MIR. White does not contemplate
leaving South Dakota as he has sew
eral business interests IN the state
to look after. He has rentsd the
ShuItleff residence or the sou h side