The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1905-11-02
SETTLERS FLOCK IN BY HUNDREDS
Wonderful Development Of the Region Tributary to the c, - 8
st. p. Extension in the Coded Sioux Lands.

In various directions through the ce-
ded lands. Settlement has extended
to a distance of more than one hun.
dred miles west of the Missouri river,
and throughout that entire region the
greatest activity prevails.
Everybody Is rushed to their ut
most in getting settled in the new
country. Passenger trains reaching
Chamberlain, for years the western
terminus of the Chicago, Milwaukee
& st. Paul railroad, are daily crowded
to their utmost capacity with eager
land seekers, whose ardor cannot be
cooled even by cold and rainy wealth
er.
They are all intent upon securing
homesteads, OF erecting buildings on
homesteads already secured, and they
pay not the slightest attention to-
weather conditions, which fortunate
ly, have been favorable for the great
er part of the time this fall.
Without doubt the rush into the
coded lands is the greatest thing OF
the kind in the history of South Da'
kota. The so-called Bonesteeel rush"
does not compare with it, being small
er in magnitude and not continuing
so long. The remarkable feature OF it
is that little has been said in the
newspapers.
Did the same conditions prevail in
Kansas or Oklahoma, the rush would
be the theme of numberless special
illustrated articles in the newspapers
and in the illustrated publications.
That more has not been written or
it doubtless is due to the fact that
the newspaper correspondents in that
part of the state, like other people,
have been too busy with their person
al business affairs to devote any or
their time to writing newspaper ar
ticles.
The extension of the new railroad
has now been completed beyond lne
new town of Reliance, from Whlch
sixty or seventy carloads OF cattle
were shipped to the Eastern markets
Immediately upon the railroad be-
ing completed to that place.
1t is expected the railroad VIII pc
completed to the town OF Fresno WITH
in the next few days. The railroad
has entered into a CONTRACT
for the handling Of sSout three hun
dred carloads Of cattle as soon as the
railroad is completed to Presho, and
because of this, and the approach OF
cold weather, the track-laylng Is pro-
ceeding with all possible speed.
The grading for the new o mas
been finished to a. point near Whlte
CLAY buttes, about sixty miles west
of Chamberlain. The graders her
aided their arrival at that point by
a confagration. Through the careless
ness of some member of the grading
gang. a prairie fire was started and
the high winds which prevailed at
the time carried it rapidly north
ward.
For a period of four hours the fire
burned ~fiercely, and at time seemed
to be beyond control and baffled the
efforts of fifty men who were detailed
to fight it. The fire swept a wide ex-
tent of country and did considerable
damage.
1t is possible the track-laying may
not extend west of Presho this fall.
At Presho the company intends put
ting in extensive stockyards and side
track facilties, which may delay the
work of track-laying.
In the meantime sleeping n a
ing accommodations at Chamberlain,
Oacoma and the smaller towns west
of the river, as has been the case
since last spring, continue to be at a
premium.