Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1907-10-17

change from wild TO domestic, from
non-productiveness to prolificacy and
fertility.
The road house has been converted
into a hotel, the old trail we'll ira
versed road, the ranch corral into u
domesticated barnyard and where
once was an endless prairie with moth
ing in sight but bunchNot "doggies"
now may be seen fields OF grain and
homes of more pretensions and mod
ern equipment. The sod house, so
common in the earlier days OF the
eastern part of the state is still com
mon factor in the development ofthese
two counties.
Real estate has fixed value based
upon improvements and locality from
Sc TO $40 being the common value.
ACCOMPLISHMENTS sell at from two TO
eight hundred dollars. And why not?
Go hundred miles or so east and see
land sold at S35 to BOO per acre
and ask the 'westerner" what is the
difference Ia the land. 1t cannot be
ia the fertility for there Is nothing
more fertile than the land seen west
OF Chamberlain and Pierre for miles
and miles. 1t is just matter OF de-
u. J.
west tells us that you must civillze
soil and climate as you civilize peo'
pie. Prairie land that has for CEN
turtles been exposed TO the elements OF
wild nature, that has for the same
length of time been stamped by num-
bers of buffalos and antelopes until
the earth's surface has become as i'm
penetrable as though under hydraulic
pressure, is being broken by the
plows and made to produce the neces-
saries and Injuries OF life.
If you want to see people happy as
clans at high tide you want to go
across the Missouri river Social
difficulties and inequalities do not ex-
list there There is one large family
with common cause the battling OF
nature and overcoming difficulties.
You may understand what the diff
cultles are, and shall try TO tell you
and tell IL from observation and ex-
perience. There as elsewhere in South
Dakota you find a lack OF people and
while for the last few years every day
threre have been hundreds OF people
go into this territory there is q lack OF
people actual homesteaders. Actual
settlers is what is wanted. Thous-
ands of young people have come out
from the east and have located on
these claims for what purpose? None
other than what there is in il.
A few months residence and little
expended for necessary improvements
has made many enough money with
which to engage in business pursuits.
They prove up and go back east hap
ply either sellingto heland Octopus"
or holding for future years to make
them a stake.
They have held festivals and fairs in
nearly every town west of the river,
and during these days they display
what they have raised. The skeptic
from the east can be shown and he
does not have to be from Missouri
either. We are hammering away at
publicity over here and are going 10
keep 1t up until the middle west knows
that South Dakota is good not in one
part but as a Whale. The settlers OF
this strange country are TO be con-
graduated on their success in devel-
oping this part of the state.
And an investigation on the part oil
anyone desiring TO make a home OF
their own and grow up In broad
minded, sociable country should in
yestigate,
Yours Respectfully,
]. RALPH LEE,
Philip, South Dakota.