The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-05-10
sY FERD RElcHMANN.

Bonesteel, $. D., Special: Since
Horace Greeley gave the advice many
years ago, young men have continued
to go vest and grow up with
the country But in Horace's time
'the east was IL narrow strip and the
west was all the rest of the country.
The conditions are now reversed. Most
of the west" of Greeley's time has be
come the etfete and opulent least" of
our day, while the west" is a COMPARE
lively meager country as to size. The
west to which Horace Greeley urged
young men to go has in late years
been furnishing young men to develop
the real west of todayvthe Great
American Desert of Greeley's time.
Iowa, illinois and other middle states
have furnished seventy-five per cent.
of the homesteaders and young bust
ness men for the development of new
countries which haNe been and are
still being opened to settlement by
Uncle Sam.
A little less thar ten years ago
Governor Frank ID. Jackson, of Iowa,
discovered that he had three husky
sons who were fit subjects for the
governor didn't really need their as
sistance in running the state of Iowa,
and he was afraid that if they stayed
there they WOULD learn bad habits II
possibly become politicians. With hor-
ror he reflected on the moral attributes
of the average Iowa politician. 1t
wouldn't do! The young men must be
removed from such surroundings and
sent into the wholesome atmosphere of
the west. They must have a chance TO
Trough it," breath real ozone. develop
Drawn and appetite, and learn to
strive with other men and take their
chances of victory or defeat. When
tho 1n1DJ1 y,-Qc noGINtinnn1 In tho howe.
they took to it, instantly.
These young men, Ernest, Graydon
and Frank Jackson, We're not helpless
dudes or sissies. They We're simply
vigorous young men whom no niche in
Iowa seemed to fit; so they came west
to make for themselves. They We're
Just entering m~anhood's estate and
were fired With the hope and ambition
Of youth. The governor was a business
man, and his sons We're educated ac-
cordinglS. He gave them advice and a
reasonable grub-stake and sent them
to South Dakota.
They came to Gregory county and
engaged in the real estate business and
soon became successful. In the "pen-
Ing to settlement of the western part of
Gregory county, three years ago, they
o an active interest and We're soon
heavily Interested, financially, in the
new lands. AT that time Bonesteel was
the end of the railroad. but it was
q forgone conclusion that the road
would o be extended on across the
county, a distance of about forty miles.
Numerous towns We're built. the pro-
motors making as good o. guess as pos
Btble as to the route to be followed by
the railroad. Towns became plentiful
up and down the valley of the Ponca,
each claiming that the railroad would
come TO them and miss their n%eighbors
On either side. The railroad was built
:ast summer and missed all but three
of The towns, and the promoters of the
others quietly gave up and quit the
toWnsite business. The Jackson bows
were among those who guessed wrong.
They had secured a body of land which
Eas apparently on the logical route of
the railroad. Here they established a
town called Dallas, only four miles
from the town of Gregory which was
t.hc largest town in the new part of the
county. Tho rivalry and feeling be-
tween the two towns was intense and
sometimes bitter, especially on the
part Of Gregory. oward her doughty
little neighbor. and when the railroad
stakes We're driven and the right-of-
way established into Gregory there was
much rejoicing in that town and much
teering at little Dallas, perched on a
alill three miles from the railroad.
But the JaclSson's didn't quit. To be
sure. their town dwindled TO half its
former size. They had spent several