Pierre weekly free press. (Pierre, S.D.) 1889-19??, 1909-10-07
bushels Of oats, 10 bushels of barley,

bushels Of oats, 10 bushels Of barley
60 bushels of potatoes, $50 pounds O
butter, rs dozen eggs, $4,000 in casl
and 1924 90 in gold bullion. The value
of thereal and personal property Of
: South Dakota is 81, $4,000 for every
man, woman and child residing with
in the borders of the state.
There are other things of equal if
; not greater Importance, than cattle
and hogs and dollars.
4 The homes, the schools. the chur-
ches and the character of the people
of the community are the real test
after all. The quality of the citizen
| ship of the average South DakoJan is
unsurpassed, the first settlers were
the pluckiest boys and girls from the
other states and from the other states
4 from the nations across the ocean.
They came here without means, but
with the courage and determination
that always insures success. The
march of the pioneers of South Dako-
ia, like the expodus of the Children
of Isreal, had been from that wilder
1 ness into land of beautiful homes,
supplied with all the necessities and
many of the comforts of life. The
state has SO, $3.50 homes, 57,2SS homes
are owned by the occupants; 81, 4S3
are free from incumbrance.
Climate
The climate is healthy and invigor-
ating. There is very little sickness
among the people or stock. Horses
do not have heayes, nor hogs cholera.
The summers are warm but not OPP
pressiye The falls are unsurpassed
in eveness of temperature and the
Indian Summers sometimes extend
to January. The severity of our
winters have been magnified. They
are no colder or more severe than the
winters of Southern Minnesota or
Northern Iowa, nor are they on a
whole as disagreeahle as winters are
in the states of Wisconsin or Illinois.
The normal temperature of January |
and February is eleven degrees above |
zero and the average temperature for |
the year is 42.3. There is very little
snow during the average winter, and |
stock can, and does, Craze all winter
on the prairies and are fat in the
spring.
The financial affairs of the people
of the state are in a most f1attering
condition. The state is out of debt |
and the banks are full of peoples
money. There has not been bank
failure within the state for the past
two years. We are just beginning to
grow. Our people now have some
thing to do with, and as fast as hands
and money can make improvements,
they are being made. A sure index
of a good country is railroad building.
Last year the Milwaukee Railroads
Pacific extension was completed
across the northern portion of the
state; the Minneapolis and st. Louis
completed its line as far west as the
Missouri river; the South Dakota
Central built from Sioux Falls north
to Watertown; two trunk lines ex-
tended their systems across the state
tothe Black Hills; three new steel
bridges were built across the Mis-
souri, river at the cost of 81 $50 900
each. Along these new roads, homes
and farms, towns, villages and cities
have sprung up, and the prairies
which had been known only, by the
buffalo and the Indian, are bringing
forth today wheat, corn and all the
products Of the cultivated farm.
In short, South Dakota is bee.
hive. There is work for every man,
woman and child. What the state
needs is people; what the people
need is a home. Do you know that /
soon the homeseeker, or the man seek
ing land at reasonable price will
find his opportunity 50 far removed
as to make it undesirable? Do you
know that the population of the world
doubles every twenty-seven years;
that there is a new baby born in the
United States every minute; that it
takes a state the size of Minnesota
every two years to take care Of the
increase in populations The land
area is not growing. All the land /
there ever will be, was created thou