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

A person familiar with the prospects.
| land apparent advantages OF cities ike
lSt. Paul, Omaha, Kansas City or Den
4 yer iii ttiiieiii Cd days vel sfenaembef
| that they nc that time possessed but
flew special advantages that were plain
lily apparent.
| Pierre possesses already practically
Ieyery advantage that anyone OF these
places had and many more in addition
She has the splendid prairie SOIL sur
rounding her that Omaha or Kansas
City had, alsoa fine location on large
nayigable river. She has also the
mineral wealth, including coal, that
Denver has had to make her great,
lefty of nearly 100000 people. she has
ithe State Capital and the timber lands
Tributary, which wereSt. Paul's leading
advantages. LII addition to these, She
has the great advantage OF natural gas
| aud also Of the finest medlcnal water
| and artesian wells anywhere in the
world. Thus, it is seen, She has the
combined advantages Of all these larger
lcitie3.
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 tile securing OF more
railroads and this now begins TO show
evidence ofeertainly 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, $50 miles west OF Pierre The
Milwaukee. system last year built to-
ward Pierre into Jerauld county, the
tiiird county east Of here, and nndoubt
eddy expect to extend a line ~ 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
year. The Northern Pacific is also
pointing in this direction and the great
500 line has recently built down into
NJ nth Dakota from the north pointing
directly for Pierre, The ElkEorn last
veal. extended from Nebraska up into
Gregory county in South Dakota, d-
rectly south Of Pierre, aad their charter
shows their line running into Pierre.
The Illinois Central and the Rock
IIsland are both at Sioux Falls pointing
| in this direction and ambitious to &C
| quire some Of this immense traffic from
the west. The Minneapolis y sc.
Louis and the Chicago & Great West
ersi are both working in this direction
from the east, the leading officials OF
| one Of these roads having madea special
trip of Inspection to Pierre last fall.
The Burlington system IN the Black
Hills has thisjwinter boughtasmall III,
| desendent road called the TT. Pierre 81
Black Hill Ry., and are undoubtedly
Iplanning to extend a line to the Mis-
lsonri river here at Pierre The Wa
hash 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 lines in this great new cean-t
TRY surrounding Pierre and to the west.
Other new lines, like the Bismarck <
Galvestonand the Midland Pacific are
protected and some OF these wtll ma
teriali2e into great enterprises
Sit does not at at this time take q re-.
Imarkably far sighted OF shreWd mind
to see that Pierre is the most promising
small city incur great country today.
It is doubtful il theirs is a more favor
ables spot anywhere in the world to in
vest small amounts of money in real
estate III this time than iii this young
future great
Every large city was one day young
and small and there are certainly nu
nerous small cities Of today that will
be large cities in the next generation.
Pierre. with more actual advantages
and prospects than any other point
(which can be found among the young
smaller cities oil this continent, must
ta ore OF these coming cities. And
any person OF this generation wis
wished to be certain of building a for
tune for their old age or for their child.
Iren 70 start life with can be practically
certain Of accomplishing this result aissa
Ilikely much sooner than they will ex-
Ipect by investing q few hundred dollars
I'm Pierre at this time. Pierre Rustler
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