The Dakota chief. (Gann Valley, Buffalo County, S.D.) 18??-1913, 1907-04-25
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At a meeting of the state board OF
Agriculture with Commissioner of I'M
migration McIlvaine at Huron, J. w
Campbell Of Huron, was elected presi.
dent and w. 8. Hill, of Alexandria,
vice president; treasurer will be
named at the next meeting. Mr..
Campbell was also made superintend-
ent Of grounds and Mr.. Hill will be in
charge of the horse and cattle depart
ment and Mr.. Peterson. OF Vermill-
ion. will be superintendent of the
swine and sheep department. Super
tendents for other departments will
also be named at the meeting to
time contracts for the erection of
number Of new buildings will be
let. Among the buildings proposed
is a new agricultural hall; an addition
to the woman's building; a poultry
building, four hog barns, two sheep
barns and two cattle barns. The
buildings now on the grounds will
also be improved.
The work of grading the remaining
portion of the Missouri river-Black
Hills extension of the Chicago &
Northwestern railroad again is in full
swing, and is being pushed as rapidly
as hundreds of men and teams can
push it. 1t is stated that the contrac-
tors having one section of the work
will have the grading between Nowlin
and Philip completed soon, which
will give the tracklaying crew clear
sailing to point just east of the
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work on the mile and one-half of un-
finished grading between the Philip
postoffice and the townsite.
1t is confidently expected that all
grading east from Philip will be COM
pleted by May / and that by that time
rails will be laid to Philip, making
everything complete for the running
OF trains by the time stated.
Another appropriation made by the
legislature has given the authorities at
the state university great satisfaction.
This was the appropriation for ex-
tending the improvements already be-
gun on East hall, the young ladies'
dormitory. 1t will be remembered
that a sufficient amount Of money was
received from the insurance on the
old West hall to make somewhat ex-
tensive repairs on the other dormi-
tory. The addition made by the legis-
lature will enable the new building to
be carried up three full stories and to
provide in the new portion hospital
accommodations in cases Of severe ILL
ness. This has been an improvement
long needed and will prove a welcome
addition to the accommodation for
young ladies. When completed, as
it will be early in September, the ac-
commodation Of East hall will be fully
doubled.
The school land lease books from
the different counties are all in. and
show that the leasing for this year
will bring greater revenue than for
any former year. Day county shows
the highest lease price for any single
tract at 81 an acre for one section of
grazing land; and Brown county
shows the highest averages over the
lease minimum set by the state board,
most of the leases from that county
going at higher figures than the limit
fixed. and practically everything in
the county being taken. The lease re-
turns from west OF the river show an
increased demand, and while a lot of
it was taken, there appears to have
been an agreement that there is yet
plenty for all in that section and there
was no bidding higher than the mini
mum.
A dispatch from Pierre announces
that the members of the new capitol
building commission left that place
Saturday on trip which will first
take them to the Black Hills. They
will inspect the sand stone Of Hot
Springs and other parts of the Hills.
Later they will go to Sioux Falls and
inspect the Jasper Of that section. A
suggestion is found in the Pierre dis
patch for the use of Sioux Falls jas
per for the basement story and the
Hot Springs sand stone for the re-
mainder of the building. This sugges
ton is all right, but it is the genera!
impression that little If any South Da-
kota material will go into the new
building.
The people of Lyman county are
the new law in regard to range stock,
and are circulating petitions in that
county to present to the county COM
missioners asking them to call a spe-
cial election to submit to the people OF
the county the question of free range
The farmers are getting to be moro
and more numerous and while most
Of the stockmen do all In their power
to keep their stock from annoying
their neighbors, a few of them are
charged with running their herds over
the growing crops at every opportu-
nifty, and the feeling is very strong In
that county.
One Of the examples of anti-race
suicide was exemplified when the
family Of Joseph Serbousek arrived
from their old home in Iowa to locate
on the Sully county farm recently
purchased by Mr.. Serbousek The
mother arrived accompanied by
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