The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1908-08-13
WHAT WAS seen
BY The EDITORS
IN HILLS COUNTRY
Wonders and Beauties of Pres
ent Mingled With Prophecy
of the Future.

iNSs- n dcSGEipGlDt III "ltit tileN saw
would make a continuous story almost
like Tennyson's Brook. flowing on for
ever"
They saw everywhere school house
yards, bare, t~reeless and u%ninviting, be-
cause school boards lack culture or
forethought. These Fairgrounds of our
children, the cradles wherein are rocked
the of history yet to be. Flu
ture citizens whose hands will guide
the ship of state and gauge the des-
tiny of the nation in the next genera
ton. All these children planted as it
were in q desert, stunted IN their love
for h beautiful. Dwarfed into the
belief that barrenness and sterilitv are
q necessary equivalent to an education.
Weakened to conform To the whitening
grace and shifting dust which is ever
a part and parcel of their daily school
life.
They saw and enjoyed the great
baths, whose warm crystal
waters dispei disease, prolons life and
drive dun care away, Where the head
gets heavy and the heart gets light.
Where he feet are wont TO tread the
palaces of the sky while the head is
hunting clans at the bottom of the
pond.
impressive Scenery.
They rarnbied through Wind cave.
whose chambers are more artistically
than the tomb Of any dead
deity of old. Whether in past ages.
some race, civilized beyond our present
dreams of perfection. used these sub
terranean caverns in which TO train
youth in color form and beauty,
certain it is that no painter has yet
lived. Whose thought was so inspired.
or hand so deftly trained as to place
upon canvas, anything that would COM
with these matchless forms which
nature has here unfolded with such a
hand.
They saw Sylvan lake among the
clouds, where the storm King drills
his subjects in battle array. Clouds
march and counferrnarch in solemn
grandeur II as the lightnings flash,
enveioping the behoider, peals of tiaun-
der seem to roll adown the mountain
side, k great boulders loosened from
the overhanging lodges. Here the vis-
itor breathes an air laden with me-
dicinai properties that quickly dispels !
like hay fever and kindred
Kinds common in hot weather.
Railroads, a Dozen Deep.
Ihey saw railroads in tiers of a doz- !
en-. from high above the surface where
great trunk line carry freight and pas
ayers TO deep down in the earth
where the blind mule slowly draps his
ore car through a Shiny tunnel 70 the
hoist. They saw the greatest gold mill
IN the world, with its myriad stamns
pounulng away on rock Seemingly as
worthless as common clay. Up and
n creaking cages, whirred
hIougn making hoists, these editors
Msn. OF " like noisome toads
through tunnels and caverns. where
men moulded by long service, inuredi
70 every hardship. like gnonles Of old
with q dun light and spectral tools
drilled n blasted and picked the gold
Dearfng rocks, hundreds and Thousands
" .ieel beneath a city teeming with life
ana ~Iuxuriating in the wealth dra wn
from these mines in the bowels Of the
earth. - ehe
Hlsh up over the mountain tops they
were carried by the trains that KISSED
ana craWIed k serpents in devious
Ways. through dark canyons and down
rocky gorges, decked with ~erhanpinr
evergreens. while below was he rush
oI gurgl1ng waters that shimmered
and glistened In the sunbeams3 whosa
waves impelled by the sportfye trout
lave the rocky beach.
Ihey saw t~orrentiaI streams ffowfnyi
lIuHI their mountain Businesses that
When narnessed In the future are des-
tined 20 turn more wheels of conf
lnerce than are 10Y operated In all tl,a+
river.
second Panama Ditch,v
e visited the big ditch, with it's
~ miles Of main channel and more than
ooo mics OF iaterals. but they failed to
port In the future, d larger populatian
2 Sat present contained in the
state. They saw and marveled At tha
magnitude of this Irrigation
proJect. Wondered at the millions 81
uoaia us recklessly expended 50 far as
sns Isast q see, IN order to revive an
apparently I~ifeless soil. TO coneede s,,c-
cess IN this seeming chimericai under
taxing IS TO admit that we live in and
g or wonderful achievement.
Iney saw alkaline lands. woefl1lIv |
barren. dotted only with sage hr,,si,
Eng cactus. as ~uilinvitfng TO settlers as
the great Sahara desert. yet when thiS
and IS touched with the magic wand
Irrigation 1t is Observation-Disclosures
into an Eden-like garden eiving -
turns for outlay more than doubIe thai
OF thesbes farms In the humid regions
saw the prairie dog on his ma
heath. not unlike the Teddy hes 70
size and fer~ociousness. insfead ~ H.
ucipated. 90 -
Wonderful Possibilities.
They saw COWS In countless n,,,,, ~
wandering unlnfIked o.er the nlain \
2 precursors of the wealth producirg
dairy q creamery, which In time viii
aorn every valley and shape the m
ture after its own civilizing ways.
Ihey saw sun baked desert on
while on the other side. under irrisa.
9 We're tempting gardens. trees
loaded with fruit, and alfalfa fields fhe
dairymen. :.
They saw innunaerable shacks 81 the