Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-08-14

p1ERRE 1Gs7NIT
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES

! eclipse CnaL OIL last yN"''
are the cattle all in excellent shape
+bo demand good the prices the
same. but the range under dlftereht
conditions than formerly, has ehJoyeu
an exceptionally good year. belle
E'ourche has long held the title Oh inc
largest single cattle shipping point III
the world. The vast stretch OF range
north. east and west afforded for years
practically the one shipping point
there. Thousands Of cattle are drlv-
en- overland there and then shipped
over the Northwestern to Omaha
Sioux City and Chicago. But with the
passing of the big range ana the large
herds, it was thought that conditions
would be so changed that belle
Fourche would cease to be a shipping
point of much northern part or Butte
county of the Milwaukee's coast line
extension, cutting as it does through a
large cattle section, was also Inquired
as q factor in the lessening of ship
ments. Neither Of these conditions
| seem to have had much of the expect
| ed effect. Countless small herds have
supplanted the larger ones, and the
! cattle are handled by many more own
ers than formerly, resulting in an i'm
proved condition and consequent bet
ter prices. SO far this season the num-
Der of shipments from Belle FOurche
is greater than at this time last year
and the cattle are coming in there fast.
Something like 1,SOO carloads were
sent to market from that point in the
| fall of 1907, but the railroad and cat
tlemen interested estimate that the
total shipments from Belle Fourche
this fall will exceed 1000 carloads.
The Milwaukee instead of reducing
| the number of head shipped from
there is drawing largely on the coun-
try heretofore handled exclusively by
the Northern Pacific. Cattle from
North Dakota, Montana, Wyoming and
the extreme northern and north CEN
trail parts of South Dakota are being
handled by the Milwaukee and North
ern Pacific. Rapid City, through the
building across the state of the North
western and Milwaukee lines, is no
longer a shipping point of such pro-
portions as before. These lines have
numerous shipping points for cattle
from west of the river hat are too far
south for the northern lines, but I'm
derwood seems destined to become the
center of the cattle shipping industry
for hat section between the Missouri
river and the Black Hills.
Nldpler ~ OF the ldWS OIL the last
Legislative session provided for the Sc
lection of experimental farms for ex-
periments in dry farming under the
control of the state agricultural col
lege. One of such farms was TO be
selected in Mcpherson county, and ex-
detrimental work is under progress on
such a farm near Eureka, on a section
of state land, such tracts having been
granted for that purpose. Two other
such arms were to be selected. one in
either Meade of Butte county, the 9th
err either in Stanley or Lyman county.
These selections have not yet been
made, but the state board of regents of
education will on the nth of next
month meet at Brookings, and after
that meeting will go west of the Mis-
souri, river for the purpose of making
the selections. While not so designated
in the law, it was passed with the I'M
derstanding that the selections should
be made near a railroad, so that those
who desire to visit the farms may do
so more readily.
From the days of pixies Peak or
Bust" nothing in the way Of an in
scriptiOn on a wagon cover was ever
more expressive than one on a wagon
which went through Pierre toward the
east Friday, bearing on each side of
the cover the words proved Up"
Nothing could be more expressive to
anyone who has ever held down a
government claim than the two words.
They meant settlement complete, and
title secured, and the man who had
been for more than a year living on a
prairie homestead had the privilege
of moving out without a chance of a
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homesteader was moving was express
ed most thoroughly by his inscription.
Gov. Crawford has appointed as del
egates to the session of the National
Irrigation congress-, which meets at
Albuquerque, N. M, Sept. 20 to Oct. 3,
Noah Newbanks, Pierre; E. I. Lam
phey, Watertown; A. B. Gidley, Lead;
Corbin Morse, Rapid City; D. T..
Tubbs, Edgemont; Samuel H. Lea.
Pierre; Carl c. Adams, Camp Crook;
A. ". Ewart, Pierre; Chauncey L.
Wood, Rapid City; George V. Ayers,
Deadwood; w. L. Barbour, Belle
Fourche; e. F. Bassett, Lennon; O,
o. Stokes, Harding.
The state assessment board in
creased the valuation of express COM
panies doing business in this state
from $251,169 to $347,365, and in
crease generally close to forty per
cent.
All the counties have reported their
assessment values to the state auditor,
showing that there has been a general
increase in the state since last year of
~$7,000,OO .
The wolf bounty appropriation has
been pro rated through the state aud
itor's department, and. the holders of
certificates will get ~ cents On the
dollar on their certificates.