Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1908-07-17

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1t bchooves the people OF Minneha-
IA county to put some Of the roads in
otter condition. The penalty for not
lolng so will be the withdrawal of
he daily rural mail delivery. Last
all the attention of the postal author
ties va called to the . Q condition
f some &C the roods in Minnehaha
,ounty over which the rural carriers
,ad to travel daily in their rounds of
'f,Ivering the mail. The postofice Of
rriaIs have looked into the matter and
hey find thu of the six rural routes
:n"!2S - Of Sioux Falls but ono Of
.lcm, 40. ?. west by Willowdale and
round by Ellis and back through
',uth Sioux Falls. is in a satisfactory
condition.. In this connection and un-
lnr date Of July |. Postmaster A. Fl.
,.tos has rcceiv, i the following COM
".urIcatiun:
.'PnStrficp Department.. Office Of
we Fourth Assistant Postmaster Gen.
.al. July !, 1908.
''rHc Postmaster, Sioux Falls. s. D.
'11lr dolartmcnt has this day called
IS. attention uf tho road officials tC
e.. hal condition of the roads OF
H}. Nos. /. 3, 4, > and 6, as indi-
.'ri in your report.
rNuu will also take up the matte
tth the road officials and the patron:
rtcrestnd. and inform them that un-
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w from your office are properly re
Dair"d during the present summer sea
m and placed in such condition that
uninterrupted service ear be rendered
throughout the year. the withdrawal!
E rural delivery from neglected roads
will very likely follow.
"Failure to comply with this re
1uiremcnt should be reported under
section 50 '~Instructions,' in ample
.ime to admit IF consideration of
amendments Of routes before the be
inning of winter. Your respectful
V "P. V. McGraw,
Fourth Assistant Postmaster Cen
eral."
state Land Commissioner Dokken
will in September offer at public sale
he state capitol lands in Meade and
bennington counties. These lands are
appraised at a minimum of from IS
o $40 an acre, and the offerings will
We the first of the land west of the
Missouri. The sale will be watched
Nth interest, and will have a tendency
. attract attention Of eastern invest
rs. If the prices secured show a be-
icf in he selling values Of lands west
f the river. The building lands yet
e. o1yt ~ @In ri,r,r will nnt he IiC-
'osrd of through the department by
private sales. and it is expected that
Practically all of these lands can be
feared up this fall. and with the pro-
'"eds from any sales west of the river
viii put the building fund in good
shape for the work of the winter. The
department will also offer this fall a
tract of common school land in Ly-
man county, which it is desired to
nave placed upon the market, and will
also offer several tracts on the Fort
;ully military reservation, which is
indemnity land taken in place of lands
'ost to the state from various causes.
The boundaries of the Lennon land
district take in a large scope of coun-
ny in the northwest corner of this
state and the southwest corner of
North Dakota. The portion of South
Dakota covered by the district is all Of
Schnasse county and a strip along the
vest sides of Boreman and Dewey
counties. About two-thirds of Butte
'Ounty, reaching down to the Meade
county line in the eastern part of the
county, but running north from the
'orner of township 10 north, range 8
last, to the corner Of township IT
north, in the vicinity Of the Slim
Butte country, where it extends west
TO the state line on|the township line
Detween 16 and 7. The South Dakota
part of the district is approximately
l4O miles long by 60 miles wide and
axes in a large amount of homestead
country, already opened to settlement
as well as and to be opened in the
cheyenne River reservation. In this
IS all of Schnase county, n that part
n western Dewey and Boreman
counties.
Henry Bremen. who lives on the
outskirts of Canton, claims to be the
champion potato raiser of this part of
she state. In support of the claim he
points out hat he has just sold from
! large patch of potatoes forty bush
els, which brought a price equal to
- " tA - ~ go 'b'N
If the most valuable crops ever pro-
iuced in this vicinity. and the value
IF the crop of a single season will
pay for the land many times over.
Premier now has replanted the patch
from which he sold the potatoes and
expects to gather "a second crop later
n the season, thus adding materially
to the productive value of his land.
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The record which already has been
made by the new creamery which was
placed in operation at White only a
little over a week ago proves that the
institution will become one Of the
leading creameries of the state. Dur
ing the first six days hat the cream
cry was in operation about two tons
# butter was manufactured and sold
ut good prices.
Good porgress is being made in the
york of organizing the farmers tele-
phone lines of ~Brookings county into
one association, with one headquarters
and one management.
HI state board of assessment did
Rot attempt to act upon sleeping car
and express assessments Wednesday.
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