Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1905-03-30

chief dependence though good aver
age crop may always be counted upon.
Corn is fast encroaching upon the
wheat fields with most advantageous
results. Barley is a sure and profita-
bic crop of growing Importance. Flax
is extensively and profitably grown.
Hay and fodder grow in prodigious
quantities and find profitable mar
ket for shipment. Dairying has revo-
lutionized many sections and is I'M
questionably the coming great indus
try of the state. already adding mil
lions each year to her wealth. Cattle,
hogs, sheep and horses are turning
S35 100000 year into the Golfers of
our breeders and feeders. 1t is the
great live stock paradise, for here
GA dollar year will keep steer
"These are some of the material adj
vantages offered. On the other side,
South Dakota offers a highly devel-
oped citizenship, fully organized for all
humanities. Schools, churches, uni
versities, hospitals. Intelligence, So
briefly, patriotism. Everything which
combines to make the home congenial,
comfortable and prosperous.
South Dakota is no longer an ex-
pertinent. More than forty-four years
have elapsed since the agricultural
population first came into the state,
and the entire portion east of the Mis-
souri, has been settled for more than
twenty years. The pioneer settlers
were confronted by new conditions.
Many of them, who came to Dakota as
homesteaders, We're factory operatives
and tradesmen, wholly inexperienced
in agriculture. That many should fail
and give up in encouragement was
inevitable. And, too, there were pc
RODS calculated to try the heart of the
most experienced. Fire, flood, drouth
seem to be the portion of the pioneer
in every section, and South Dakota
has been no exception to the general
rule.
"But once tried out, nature turns to
the pioneer a smiling countenance and
showers the faithful ones with many
faVors. So it has been in Dakota. The
men and women who had the faith and
courage to stick it out have learned
the heart secrets of the mother state
and she has given to them the bless
ngs of great happiness and prosper
ity. She has taught them the trick of
the soil. Inch by inch she has yielded
to them for fruitful agriculture until
all of her Astounding domain blossoms
with rich harvests and nouriShing pas
lures where uncOunted herds fatten on
the lush grasses; and where once the
familiar buffalo and the antelope pant
ed for water, there now gush from her
bosom many hundreds of never-failing
fountains, feeding purling streams and
beautiful lakes, about which spring
groves to shade and comfort the land
Even her breath, once hot and scorch-
ing as a desert wind, has become soft
and humid, bearing frequent showers
to refresh the earth.
Opportunities for either homeseek-
ers or investors to secure cheap South
Dakota lands will diminish rapidly in
the years to come. With exercise Of
ordinary good judgment it is almost
impossible to make a bad investment
in South Dakota lands; prices are ad-
vancing SO steadily, ana the advance
is so legitimately based upon the fruit
fulness of the soil, the profits of agri-
culture, the splendid climate and in
creasing population, that investors
who have the foresight to take advan-
tage of remaining opportunities are
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