Philip weekly review. [volume] (Philip, Stanley County, S.D.) 1907-1912, 1908-05-29
Advantages Of South Dakota.

out own pooPle W tIl6 SuDSLaHbidl
character Of the natural resources
of the state, In order that they might
be encouraged in their struggle for
honest fortune and whatever fame
fate will award them. Occasionally
it occurs that citizen who has spent
years, more or less, In Dakota, In
dustriously striving to better his con-
dition, pulls up his stakes, packs his
household idols and lesser treasures
In the Car, and goes off I'm search of
another home. Yankton county has
lost many hundred excellent people
by removal and in very few instan-
ces have the emigrating parties been
disappointed here or failed Of mod
crate success; but have been lured
away by stories told them of better
land where there are shorter and
smoother and more down hill reads
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 1t produces 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 well
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 aban-
doned. The testimony of hundreds
of these people convinees us that
dear old Dakota as It Is affection
ately referred to in their letters, is
pleasantly and gratefully remember
cd because Of the agreeable and prof
liable experiences they here enjoyed.
The west abounds In good opportun-
titles, 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 |
our young population. But the
present is the time of all times for
Dakotans to remain here and grow
with the country. South Dakota's
has just begun and it's
for intelligent industry
are being multiplied every year,
This is q new country-its pioneer
elders are still In the field and are
the most aggressive of our population,
while within our borders one can find |
those who began their career as
pioneers week ago on 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 than right
here In South Dakota. Its popula-
tion 10 increasing 1T the rate OF $1,000
to 25, 900 year. What better op-
portunities can any country afford
than enc which combines the natural
riches Of salubrious climate, pro-
ductiys soil, healthful weather, val
liable mines, In connection with
abundant markets, railways convsn-
lent and annually expending, popu-
lation pouring In by thousands, the
best OF oil common school systems,
In great number and con-
venient to oil settlements and repre-
ssnting oil phases OF orthodoxy. In
fact South Dakota has at present
inducements to offer to
half million more, and when this
half million 10 gainsA the state will
be ready to welcome : million more.
There 10 abundant room In the state
for two million population and prof
liable employment will be found with
the growth and development OF the
Touching on this subject
} correspondent OF the Minneapolis
Journal who has had something Of
} prophetic vision while passing
our state, writes to his paper
In part rs follows:
South Dakota has only as yet
81 persons to the square mile, while
North Dakota has only As. This is
,olely because these states have not
ret had the time, In the short per-
lod since their opening to develop as
have other states. These two states
will one day embrace the population
that will be as great relative to the
1rea, as that of Iowa. The possibil-
tiles Of agriculture and other natural
wealth development in these states
are greater by far than are the ul-
innate possibilities of Kansas, Okla
homa, or Indian Territory which now
have dsnser population than
North and South Dakota. Let the
eye range out into the Dakotas and
beyond, consider the immensity OF
the country, its wealth in agriculture,
timber, minerals, the railroads that
Are now building into and through 1t.
Consider the thousands and thous-
lnds OF people that are streaming in
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