The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1906-05-24
Minneapolis and St. l.. Extension
WATERFOWL, s. d. May 10.

In n OF the very rich portions OF
| South Dakota has now assumed a
tangible shape.
Winston Bros. of Minneapolis, have
five thousand men at work and dirt is
flying rapidly between here and
Condo. Thomas A. Way at Water
town, the company's town site agent,
has just received word from the
Minneapolis officials at Minneapolis
that the engineers will want to get out
on the line between Condo and the
Missouri river at once, which means
that work will be pushed all along
the line this summer and that trains
will be running this fall. The iron
will probably be laid as far as Condo
by the middle Of July.
j. n. Tittemore, general freight and
traffic manager Of the road was in
Watertown recently to gather informa-
ton relative to the number of eleva-
tors to be installed in the new towns.
1t was decided to have them built at
once all along the line with out wait
ing the final construction of the road.
The lumber will be shipped to the
nearest point and then hauled to the
different towns. This will furnish a
grain market for the surrounding
farmers and il the iron is not laid the
grain will be stored until such time
as the road is ready TO undertake its
transportation. Some idea Of the
estimate which the road places upon
the richness Of the country it will tap
may be gathered by the fact that
eight elevators will be placed in
Florence alone where Mr.. Tittemore
confidently expects one million
bushels Of grain will be marketed
this fall.
The building OF the new towns Will
accompany the construction Of the
road and will be a picturesque under
taking. They are being handled by
Thos. \. Way e Iowa, who has
opened up headquarters at WatertOwn,
All Of the towns have been named
by Vice President and General Man
ager L. +. Day, who called in the
assistance of Doane Robinson Of the
South Dakota Historical society. In
naming them free use was made Of
the Indian tongue and names were
selected which will be poetic, sugges-
tive and musical. The Old time name
of lie Beau, the Missouri river termi-
nus Of the road, the one by which it
was long known to trappers and later
by cattIemen has been abandoned for
for more prosaic Il Of Scranton.
The towns in their order will be as
follows: Yahota, Florence, Wallace,
Bradley, Croker, Crandall, Condo,
Brentford, Mellette, Worthwhile, Chel-
sea, C~resbard, Wecota, Carlyle,
Onaka, Tolstoi, Hoven, Lowry,
Alaska, Scranton. Yahota will be
the first town out Of WATERFOWL on the
shore of beautiful Lake Kampeska.
Its name signifies to ''inhale." The
significance of the other Indian names
are: "Akaska," georges "Onaka,"
(~garner;) "Wecota," (host:) etc.
Tolstoi, named after the great Rus
sian novelist is in the heart OF a Rus
sian settlement.
OF the new towns, Florence is the
first to have been plated. Hardly
was the ink dry on the blue prints
than business men were clamoring for
lots and a boom has set in for the
incipient town. Tents are springing
up and the place looks like a booming
mining camp. Two banks are es-
tablished,- the Farmers State bank
by NJ. ". Lee of Minneapolis and the
State Bank Of Florence, organized by
ID. NJ. Cline Of Artesian. This bank
will soon nationalize with a capital
stock Of $25 900. Both institutions
are TO build two story brick blocks
with plate glass fronts, cement walks,
etc. Florence also has a newspaper
and with in four weeks will see the
publication Of the FLORENCE
FORUM by H. f. Kent, now Of
the Sleepy Eye Mimi Herald.
Other business enterprises have gone
in, such as a drug store, elevators,
three lumber yards, hardware store,
restaurant, etc. The town is situated
in the richest portion OF Codington
county, at least twenty miles from
any competing towns, Wallace has
also been plated and the new town Of
Brentford will 0 be opened.
Politics has already invaded Floren-
ce and the postmastership has been
secured by Miss Hattie Burnstad,
daughter OF Representative Burnstad
of CodingtOn.
The prospective residents are already
beginning to talk of a Mayor and the
new place will spring forth, full