The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1907-10-31
err things spoke of a tall "sky

sc:aper" that had no elevators to
reach it's upper stories. When
asked how the occupants got up
there he answered "Climb it,"
(climate) so all absorbing had be-
come tie powerfal influence of eli
mate as the reason for the growth
of that city.
There is something else now to
account for the growth of the ur.
ban population of this section. The
oil fields here are said to be second
only to those of Pennsylvania, the
quality of the product is said to be
so good that coke can be made
from it, and as a substitute for the
coal and timber as fuel, which is
absent here, it's blessings come to
these people like a benediction
from heaven now, and it promises
to build up a vast manufacturing
field of industry in the near future.
However, as a place for the av-
erage in dustrious and economical
person to make a competence it
seems to me the states between the
great lakes and the Rocky Noun
tains are very much to be pre-
ferred. Carpenters get three dol
lars and a half or four dollars a
day and painters and masons as
much, or more, laborers two dol
lars a day. working women the
same; the day is but eight hours
long and there seems to be plenty
of work for all. Potatoes are near
ly two dollars a bushel, butter for
ty to fifty cents a pound, and eggs
about the same price per dozen.
It costs about one thousand dollars
for a good fifty by one hundred and
fifty foot building lot and fifteen
hundred to two thousand dollars to
build a modest home on it, and
this will rent for twenty or twenty
five dollars a month. Fish and
fruit are reasonably low and good
cuts of fresh meat high, while
bread is five cents a loaf. Take it
all together, aside from the work
ing single women in the domestic
field-and they are very scarce at
thirty dollars per MONTH"; seems
to me the bread winners of the
wage earning class are not burden
ed with much of a surplus at the
end of each week in good times,
aud when it is slack | suppose they
go fishing and live down on the
level of bedrock economy.
This is a great country for flow
ers, shrubs, vines and ornamental
trees-they are not without per-
fume, as some without smelling
capacity have reported-and these
when supplemented with the sing
ing birds, particularly in the de.
lightfnl winter seasons, create a
condition for comfortable living
for those who have incomes enough
to pay expenses that is little short
of our expectations and hopes of
the New Jerusalem with it's pearly
gates and golden streets resound-
ing with celestial music of the
heavenly harps. In fact this is
the kind of place for a we'll to DO
tourist to spend a few weeks or
months of the most undesirable
part of the year in his eastern
home when the railroads are con-
Quoted so that he has a better
chance of not being hurriedly
switched off to the city of the gold
en- streets.
We are quite content here and
have fairly good health, my wife
much better than in South Dakota.
and there is good prospect Of con-
siderable improvement and length
ened lease of life as among the ad-
vantages of this mild and genial
climate. We miss our friends and
acquaintance in the old home very
much and the breaking of the ties
that bound us in kindly remem-
brance to people all over the state
whom We met but occasionally
still reminds us of a something
painfully missing. The old tried
and true friends are tho bast