Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1906-06-01
NEW RAILROAD.


Thomas A. Way, townsite agent
for the Minneapolis & st Louis rail
road has received a letter to the effect
that the engineers of the road would
Immediately enter the field of the new
Watertown extension between Condo
and Scranton on the Missouri river.
This means that the work of constuc-
ton of the western end of the new ex-
tension will be pushed simultaneous
ly with that section lying between
WATERFOWL and Condo and over which
it is expected trains will be running
by July first or the middle of that
month. 1t had been supposed that
the building of this section of the
road would be delayed until fall.
The work of construction on this
end of the line is progressing rapid
ly and Winston Bros, now have five
thousand men at work. Grading
camps are established all along the
right of wayand furnish apicturesque
sight.
4 j. n. Fillmore, general freight and
traffic manager of the Minneapolis
road, was in Watertown recently for
} the purpose of gathering information
|, relative to the number of elevators to
be installed in the new towns. All of
these will be built at once, without
awaiting the construction of the road
and will furnish an immediate market
for the farmers along the line. The
lumber will be shipped to the nearest
towns and from there will be hauled
! overland. All of them will have a
capacity of $4,000 ! bushels. Some
idea of the estimate the railroad off
cials place upon the richness of the
country to be tapped may be gather
ed from the fact that eight elevators
will be installed at Florance alone
where Mr.. Tittmore confidently ex-
poets a million bushels of grain will
be harvested this fall.
The building of the new towns
will both precede and accompany the
construction of the road and will be
a picturesque undertaking. Sixteen
new towns will be added to the sister
hood of South Dakota cities.
All of them have been named by
Vice President L, F. Day who called
upon Doane Robinson of the South
Dakota State Historical Society for a
collection of Indian from which
in several cases, choice was made. All
of these Indian names are poetic,
musical and significant of some char
acteristic of the town. For example,
Yahota, gorge; Onaka, garner"
Wocota, 'host", etc.
The names of the towns i'm their
order out of Florence will be: Yahota,
Florence, Wallace, Bradley, Croker,
Crandall, Condo, Brentford, Mellette,
Worthwhile, Chelsea, Cresbard, Wacota,
Carlyle, Onaka, Tolstoi, Hovon, Low
ny, Alaska, Scranton.
OF the new towns, Florence is the
first to have been plated. Hardly
was the ink dry on the blne prints be-
fore business men were clamoring for
lots and a boom has set in for the new
town. Tents are springing up and
the town looks like a mining camp in
the Bonanza days. Two banks are
already established, the Farmers
State bank Of which M. w. Lee of
Minneapolis is the head and the State
Bank of Florence organized by d. NJ
Cline of Artesian. This bank viii
soon nationalize with a capital of SIS,
zee Beth institutions will erect
handsome two story brick structures,
with plate glass fronts, cement side
walks, ste.
A news paper will soon appear. II
will be- called the Florence Forum
and will BE- published BY II. +. Kent,
now Of the Sleepy Eye, Mimi Herald.
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