The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1908-05-29

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away by stories told them of a
better land where there are shorter
and smoother and more down hill
roads to success than exist in South
Dakota, where, though the summer
does not last all year, the climate is
one of the most healthful of any
portion of the American continent,
the soil so fertile and productive
that it produces a larger per capita
wealth than any Of its sister states,
and where the death rate is the low
est of any portion of this country.
and equally low with any ordinary
country on the globe. Young people
who have gone away have done we'll
as a rule, but no better than those
who have remained, and they have
found no better or more promising
country than this which they ADAM
doned. The testimony of hundreds
of these people convinces is that
dear old Dakota as it is affection
ately referred to in their letters, is
pleasantly and gratefully remember
ed because of the agreeable and prof.
liable experiences they here enjoyed.
The west abounds in good opportun-
tiles, and with many people no mat
ter how we'll they are situated, the
promise of something better is too
strong to resist, and this accounts
largely for the loss of so many of
/, vN,r,pnr ponI,lnf!ES, p,t thn
present is the time OF ali times
for Dakotans to remaiY here and
grow with the country. South Da-
kota's development has just begun
and its opportunities for intelligent
industry are being multiplied every
year. This is a ley country-its
pioneer elders are still in the field
and are the most aggressive Of our
population, while within u borders
n can find those who began their
career as pioneers a week ago or the
virgin plains west of the Missouri
river. No better field for the young
and energetic who are guided by
right principles can be found thar
right here in South Dakota. Its pop
ulation is increasing at the rate of
IS to 5000 a year. What better OPP
portunities can any country afford
than one which combines the natura,
luctive soil, healthful weather, val
able mines, in connection witt
abundant markets, railways corven-
snt and annually expanding. p)pn-
ten pouring in by thousands, the
,est Of all common school systems,
:hurches in great number and coll
yanient to all settlements and repre-
senting all phases Of orthodoxy. In
act South Dakota has at present
substantial inducements to offer to
half a million more, ard when this
half million is gained the state will
be ready to welcome a million more.
There is abundant DON IN the state
for two million population. aud prof
liable employment will oe found with
the growth and development. If the
country. Touching on this subject
a correspondent OF the Minneapolis
Journal who has had something CT
a prophetic vision while passing
through our state, writes to his paper
in part as follows:
South Dakota has only as yet
So persons to the square mile, while
North Dakota has only as. This is
solely because these states have not
yet had the time, in the short per-
iod since their opening TO develop as
have other states. THESE two states
will one day embrace a population
that will be as great relative to the
area, as that of Iowa. The POSSIBLE
tiles of agriculture and other natural
wealth development in these states
are greater by far than are the I'LL
innate possibilities of Kansas, Okla
homa, or Indian Territory which now
have a denser population than
North and South Dakota. Let the
eye range out in.5 The Dakotas and
beyond, consider the immcnsity of
the country, its wealth in agriculture,
timber, minerals, the railroads that
are now building into and through it.
Consider the thousands and thous-
ands of people tlat are streaming in
as the biggest projects, railroad
building, mining, numbering, and
general u%pbuilding heard of today
are going OF in this stretc hof coun-
try.-Press and Dakotan.
MRS. sHERRARD DEAD.
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