The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1909-08-27
HAS DESERTED
The CRADLE
Rapid City Taking Rank as
City of Commercial
Importance.
Will HAVE $4,000 INHABITANTS IN TEN YEARS
Hundreds of Strangers Visit the City
Each Week-The Home Builder
is at Work on Full time.

verified by recourse to the registers Of
the hotels. They are chiefly persons
in search of homes, business locations
or tourists who have sought con-
genial cline to while away in comfort
the torrid days of summer. Rapid
City has been pictured to them as a
live business place, a city of comfort
and pleasure devised and built by
man endowed by the creator with
climatic conditions as near ideal as
possible she has stood the test,
for Rapid City is appreciated most by
those who have knowledge of condi-
tions in eastern cities.
Rapid City blessed by nature as she
is can we'll be thankful There are
thousands in the eastern states who
are turning their attention westward,
as though just realizing the force Of
Horace Greely's advice. They are
dissatisfied with existing conditions
and dissatisfaction has become veri-
table germ of unrest, propagated and
rendered acute by an excessively hot.
sultry summer such as to Still the
soft, soothing wooing Of morpheus,
with no rest to the care-worn and
weary soul. These people are willing
to labor and they must have rest, the
soothing influence of a night in this
climate. They spend time and money
to come here and the city should
make their visit pleasant and profit
able for them. They should be shown
about the city, and its advantages
set forth with all reliableiniormation
at command. The city is exception
ally we'll located, provided with nat
ural beauty and excellent surround
ings. Everything that is needed is
here, awaiting development in many
instances. The city is we'll supplied
with retail establishments, though
there is opportunity for other lines
with indications Of demand at this
time. But what is most needed is
factories which give employment to
the people. The location is ideal for
many institutions that manufacture
lines of goods and machines of every
day demand. Then woolen mill
managed along conservative lines
might be made profitable, as an abun-
dant supply Of wool may be secured
right here in the Hills country and
the finished product disposed of read
lily.
But in order to secure any of these
institutions, to induce capitalists to
invest in them, the people must speak
well of the place, must present condi-
tions truthfully yet Slightly optimis-
tically. Pessimism, prejudice or inn
agination should never enter into the
discussion of a country's conditions
or a city's needs. The spirit Of prog
ress is in the air and Rapid City is
destined to bea city of far greater
Importance than it is today. If spok-
en-. of truthfully, with remarks di-
yorced from any personal prejudice, in
ten years it should number Is, 600 peo-
pie.
The city is growing steadily now.
New houses are being erected, and
are rented before completion. People
are living in rooms, tents and shacks
awaiting opportunity to secure more
suitable abiding places. Why not as
sist them to find one?
If you have surplus cash, put it in
circulation by building homes to be
occupied by yourself, sold or rented
at reasonable rates. There is COM
munity of interest in every city-and
that which helps any one person helps
the city. Patronizet home industry
and home merchants, If possible.
Spend your money where you live and
thereby keep it in circulation. Let it
be known Rapid City is leaving the
cradle of country village and enter
ing the chariot of a city of CONNER
cial Importance. Push the chariot.