The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1907-08-16
NO LONGER AN EXPERIMENT.
Fort.S-1vc Years of Occupation OF
South Dakota Has Worked
WnO1nuc

Doane Robinson believes in South
Dakota, and in the following from
bis per he pays the state a merited
compliment:
South Dakota is no longer an ex-
pertinent. More than forty-flve years
have elapsed since the agricultural
population first come into the state,
and the entire portion east of the
Missouri has been settled for more
than twenty years. The pioneer set
tiers confronted by new con-
ditions. Many of them who came to
Dakota as homesteaders were factory
operatives and tradesmen, wholly in
experienced in agriculture, That
many should fail and give up in dis
couragement was inevitable.
AND, too, there were periods CAL
culated to try the hearts of the most
experienced. Fire, flood, drought,
seemed to be the portion of the pio-
neer in every section, and South Da-
kota was no exception to the general
rule. But once tried out, nature
turns to the pioneer a smiling coun-
tenance and showers the faithful g
with many favors. So it has been in
South Dakota. The men and
who had the faith and courage to
stick 1t out have learned the heart
secret of the mother state Nnd she
mas given to them the blessings of
great happiness and prosperity.
She has taught them the trick
of the soil. Inch by inch she has
yielded to them for fruitful agri-
culture until all the Astounding do
main blossoms with rich harvest or
nourlshing pastures, where amounted
herds fatten on the lush grasses, and
where once the buffalo and the ante
lope painted for water there now
gush from her bosom many hundreds
of never failing fountains, feeding
purhng streams and beautiful lakes,
about which spring groves to shade
and comfort the land. Even her
breath, once hot and scorching as a
desert wind, has become soft and
humid, bearing frequent showers
to refresh the earth.
In other words, forty-1ve years
of occupation and experience have
taught the South Dakotan how to
avail himself of the natural con-
ditions and to adapt his methods to
the best ends and in this age, where
material results are the measure of
all values, South Dakota passes the
extreme test, for she yields to her
people more per capita than any 9th
er commonwealth.
To summarize in a
the advantages which South Dakota
presents to the homeseeker. It NAV
be said that the soil is unifomly
fertile, producing fair returns of all
field crops indigenous to the north
states. Wheat growing is no longer
a chief dependence, though a good
average crop may always be counted
upon. Corn is fast encroaching upon
the wheat fields with most adyan-
tageous results. Barley is a sure n
profitable crop of growing impor-
lance. Flax is extensively and profit
ably grown. Hay and fodder grow
In prodigious quantities and find a
profitable market for shipment.
Dairying has revolutionized many
sections and is unquestionably the
coming great industry of the state.
already adding millions per year to
her wealth. Cattle, hogs, sheep and
horses are turning t~hirty-fve millions
per year into the Golfers of u
breeders and feeders. 1t is the live
stock paradise, for here, "A dollar a
Will keep a steer
These are some of the material
advantages offered. On the other
South Dakota offers a highly de-
veloped citizenship, fully organized
Tor all humanities. Schools, church
universities, hospitals. Intelli-
gence, sobriety. morality, patriotism.
Everything which combines to make
the home congenial. comfortable and
Norton Moses. son OF Sheriff Noses,
Of Butte county, and a clerk In a
drug store at Spearfish, will lose the.
sight Of n eye as a result Of some
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