Reporter and farmer. [volume] (Webster, Day County, Dakota [S.D.]) 188?-1946, 1906-01-11

and Parker or Marion junction a
company has been formed by Sioux
Falls business men for the purpose of
constructing an electric railroad south
westward from Sioux Falls.
One Thousand head of cattle have
been sold by George B. Bennett,
receiver of the United States land
office of Rapid City, for. a consideration
of $4,000. The purchaser was John
Hart, a wealthy cattleman on Spring
creek. The demand for range cattle
at the present is excellent.
The citizens of Oacoma are feeling
jubilant over the fact that the railroad
company has purchased large tracts of
land adjoining the town and are sink
ing prospective shafts in ascertainlng
the extent of the fine gravel deposits
thereon. Over fifty shafts have been
sunk and the gravel found TO be from
ten to thirty feet in depth.
The Chicago q Northwestern has a
force of over one hundred men at work
lying steel on the new grade. The
work of lying the main track and "A new
siding to Rapid River mills is COM
pleted. Four crossings will be neces-
sary in order to cross the Milwaukee
tracks. Nearly a mile of rails now has
been laid on the new road to Pierre.
The FORCES for the workshop of the
new mechanic arts building at the
normal school It Aberdeen have arrived
and have been put in place. The 10
horse power engine TO furnish power
for the plant has also arrived and is
now being installed. With the opening
of the new term the workshop will be
ready for occupancy by the students
desiring to gain an education in the
mechanic arts.
Mrs. Clara A. Lukens, who was
elected president of the South Dakota
w. r. o., at Aberdeen last June, and
whose home is in Mitchell, is making a
tour Of inspection of the different corps
in the state, After a few days rest
from visiting the corps in the northern
part of South Dakota, she has again
taken Ep the work and is visiting the
officers and members in the EASTERN
portiop of the state.
Tho Inn clancc man aud other rpGldAnfs
OF Viborg, a thriving little town stu.
ated on the Great Northern south or
Sioux Falls, are agitating the forming
of a stock company for the purpose of
constructing a new 5000 hotel at that
place. The town at present is without
suitable hotel accommodations. Viborg
has inh churches and fine structures
for mental instruction and entertain
ment, and the citizens are determined
that the town shall have a first-class
hotel Tor the accommodation of the
travelling public.
The last year has been unusually
prosperous in Belle Fourche, Accord.
ing to the recent census, Belle Fourche
leads all the other cities of the state in
the per cent of its growth. In the last
four years it has rrebled its population.
The governments irrigation project, now
well advanced, soon will enable farmers
to cultivate nearly 100000 acres of rich
soil which otherwise must have remain
ed untouched. Business blocks to the
value of at least $4,000 have been
erected and dwellings which cost in the
n~eighborhood of $4,000 have gone up
during the year. The new electric
light plant is in successful operation, as
is also the new steam laundry.
The great value of small artesian
wells to farmers in the east of the
Missouri river is shown by the practical
use TO which such a well is put by IL.
Il. Zimmerman, a Miner county
farper. Zimmerman is the owner OF
COO cres of land upon which is an
artesian we'll that has a flow of eighty
lOUI RdliOHS ptl hluNltt' Iuc suipius
water from it has formed a lake cover.
ing abont five acres and the lake is
filed with fish. With power derived
from the artesian we'll Zimmerman
operates a c~ornsheller, cream separator,
churn and washing machine. In addi-
ton, the surplus water from the well
can be utilized for ~irrigating snch por-
tions Of his farm as necessary.
Alleging that the prosecuting Of
States Attorney Chas. A. Kelley, on
indictments returned by the grand jury
are brought about by the policical
enemies OF the defendant, the Beadle
county commissioners have passed reso-
l~utions requesting the court to dismiss
the indictments now pending and to
reinstate Kelley in Office, and declaring,
moreover, that the commissioners will
not pay any further expenses of prose-
cution unless compelled by legal pro-