Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-06-26
INDUSTRY DOOMED.
Took RAISING IN souTHpAKoTA
ON HUGH SCALE, is PASSING
AWAY
Next Meeting Of cattlemen's Associa.
ton to Be the Last-Monster Unique
Celebration to Pass With 1.-THE
Greater Rapid City.

The doom of the large cattle and
Sheep raisers, who have hitherto pros
pered on the free lands in South Da-
kota, has been sounded. Soon the ag-
riculturist and the small stock raiser
will take the place Of the large stock
raisers, whose huge herds have for
years held undisputed sway on the
ranges OF that state. With the passing
OF the old regime one of the most an
tique annual gatherings held anywhere
in the United States will cease to be.
This Is the annual meeting of the
Western South Dakota Stock Growers
association and the carnival which is
Its biggest feature. This celebration,
held at Rapid City every year, last
April attracted about 5000 visitors.
Such mammoth change in the in
dustrial conditions Of state is strik-
Ing example of the influence cast over
che development of this country by the
railroads. For 1t is the opening Of two
new lines of road, which, by causing a
monster influx of settlers, has brought
about the passing Of the old order Of
things.
A Bit Of History.
Away back in the dim ages of long
forgotten time, there lived a race Of
! men on the North American continent,
hat titled the earth and mined min
erals from the sides of the northern
hills. Time went on and there arose
another race, more hardy but less civil
iized than these early men Of COM
merce. They cared not for mines or
"a in a iutn 1,xy
hunting. To do this required land,
lures in which to live and propagate
their kind. To secure this land the
new race, the red men, drove the an
cient mound builders to the south,
where their descendants were found
by the Spaniards at the beginning of
the modern history Of this continent.
: Hardly had the Spaniard discovered
the remnant Of the once mighty race,
than the white man began his migra-
ton to the new country which the red
man now controlled. Gold 1t was that
1ured HIM from the comforts of the old
world to the dangers and privations of
the new. But the gold seekers soon
7und that the precious metal did not
grow on trees, even in America. Then
religious fervor sent hardy band of
5hites to the western world to strive
with the red man for the ascendency
But the religious fervor soon cooled
md the mighty power that drove the
rast streams Of Immigrants, which
lave poured into the American CONT.
ent from that day to this has been
ae desire Of the human heart for
land, land"
The Game Disappears.
Up in the northern country where
nee the mound dweller delved for the
rescious metals Of the earth, the red
nan now hunted his prey on the vast
1elds and valleys which the mountains
studded. Here was field for the
trapper, his wish for land was identi
cal with that Of the Indian, so he com
nenced to drive the Indian out. But
he red man was more hardy than his
uarry, and long before the Indian had
1T the game which the trapper wished
ad disappeared.
ian, to whom the vast valleys and
,lains, containg great areas of free
and was boon beyond price. Over
CQ1S lauQ TOOIu0u MS uedTuS, no longer
the bufallo Of the Indian but the wilder
steers, which white men only saw al
roundup times. Then with the adj
vent of cheap and efficient fencing
there came the sheepman, and he too
desired land. He needed less than the
stockman, his fiocks might be watched
and herded and fenced. He coult
purchase land and still make his in
Jestment pay. Sc the better land fell
INTO his grasp.
Up to the present time in the
counties Of Butte, Mead Pennington
stanley and Lyman, South Dakota
here have existed these two elements
n their prime. Here they have with
stood all the advances of the force:
{ further civilization. Here they have
pastured and herded their flocks O
cattle and sheep in spite the cry fol
and that went up from the discon
tented of the nation
Next Meeting, the Last.
But their time has come. Theil
knell has rung. Once more thu
battle cry Of Land, land" is hearc
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