The Norfolk weekly news-journal. (Norfolk, Neb.) 1900-19??, 1908-07-24
ROSEBUD FARM PROGRESS
WONDERFUL DEVELOPMENT OF
THREE SHORT SUMMERS.
THE NEAT NEW FARM HOUSES
Magnificent Red Barns, Registe re d
Herds Of Cattle, Hogs and Chickens.
Rich Fields Of Bullying Grain-Land
Prices High.

Prices High.
Gregory, S. d., July 1S-From a
staff correspondents: Gregory county,
South Dakota, mas developed faster
than any other new country in the
world. People who know say that no
tract of public land ever thrown open
20 settlement by the United States
government has been known to de.
velop as quickly as Gregory county in
the Rosebud. And it is only takes a
look at the country today to carry
conviction upon this claim.
Four brief summers ago--it seems
but yesterday that the Bonesteel rush
was on-this raw prairie, stretching
out like carpet for miles and miles
in every direction, was the home OF
the rowing Rosebud Sioux, the ante.
lope, the big grey wolf and the Ameri.
can eagle. Today 1t is an old settled
country with bullying wheat and oats
and corn fields, a land thickly popu-
lated and dotted here and there and
everywhere with mammoth farm
houses, well built barns and, every
few miles, prosperous, thriving, grow
inn towns.
The progress wrought out OF the
virgin prairie of the Rosebud In three
short summers by the Gregory county
homesteader calls forth only amaze
ment and praise from the stranger
visiting for the first time this newly
settled, remarkably developed region.
| Their strides in realm development
are almost beyond conception and be-
| lief
There is an air OF maturity about
these Rosebud towns and these Rose
bud farms which one expects to find
| only in a region that has been under
the white mans plow for twenty
years.
When the train stops at a Rosebud
town, you are confronted by new
red depot and driver of the hotel
bus. Up the main street you are
whizzed-a street which at once at
| tracts your interest because of the
great stretches of broad cement side.
walks lining either side. And you are
| surprised to find hotel that is big and
well furnished and altogether as
roomy and comfortable as any you
could expect to see in towns many
years older. At street intersections
there are city water hydrants which
afford fire protection to the town-fire
protection sorely needed by many Of
the older country towns during their
boyhood days. And then there are
street lights. Gas lights afford illum-
with each light pole. 1t is almost like
street in Los Angeles.
And that is not all. Out in the
edge of town there are scattered new
homes that would grace cities any
where-some of these homes being
built away out here on the frontier
at a cost of as high as $4,000.
The Rosebud Farms.
But the farms around the towns and
between the towns show what's out
farm development rests the super
structure of the BODYBUILDING. And
Nature, aided by the white mans pillow
and the white mans pluck, has GER
tainly made things hum out here in
these new fields. A man who drove
out from Bonesteel during the rush,
to look at the reservation would
scarcely be able to believe his eyes
were he to wake up in Gregory county
today. For where was the red mans
tepee, today stands large prosperous
looking farm residences, well built
and newly painted, homes affording
all the comforts to be found in any
farm homes anywhere; and these are
magnificent new barns, built upon
scientific principles in accordance with
latest ideas, and prepared to shelter
the golden grain of a summers harvest
as we'll as the sleek looking cattle and
horses that prevail
A Typical Rosebud Farm.
Imagine driving along a country
road and coming to a farm house
standing some distance back from the
main road, built upon an elevation con-
nected with the front gate by a gentle
: slope of green grass dotted here and
there with a flower bed and parked
with little trees just getting start
: in life; the house is modern in ap
pearance, is painted a clean cream and
: is fronted by comfortable wide
porch. From inside the house come
sounds of high grade monograph
: reproducing Melba's solos. A short
. distance behind the house a mammoth
red barn lifts its proud head. At one
side OF the farm yard there are a
series of scientific pig pens such as
you might see in an agricultural col
lege. Inside the pens are registered
porkers and their little ones; of in
} the distance, grazing peacefully upon