Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1910-09-15
BELLE FOuRcHE
Irrigation Project Great suc=
Reinforcement En-
gineers Inspect Great
South Dakota Pro-
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1t is said that the Board of
United States Engineers that
recently visited the Govern
ment Irrigation Project at
Belle Fourche is apparently
very much interested in the
advantages which the project
and 1t is believed that
they will recommend to Con-
gress additional expenditures
for this development work.
The cost figures for the
Belle Fourche project are
among the lowest the Govern
ment Reclamation Service has
been able to secure. Over 100,-
600 acres of land have been re-
and the Chicago &
North Western Railway has
an extension of its
Black Hills line from Belle
Fourche to the government
town site at Newell.
Settlers are taking the farms
as soon as they are placed over
the ditch, and the Belle
Fourche Valley, which has
heretofore been strictly a cat
tie range country, promises to
become densely populated at
an early date, and a region
with splendid crops. Belle
F'ourche is nearer the eastern
markets than many of the
other Government projects.
The 6. & N. w. Ry., maintains
two direct lines to Chicago and
the east.
The party consists of Bri-
gadier General Marshall, re-
tired (who was until recently
at the head of the U. S. Engi-
neers,) Col. Biddle, Col. Long
fit, Major Harris, Major Kutz,
Major Burgess, Mr.. f. HI. Me-
we'll, Director of the Reclama-
ton Service, and Mr.. r. f.
Walter, Reclamation Service
Engineer who was in direct
charge of the work being done
by the Government at Belle
Fourche.
Editor To help in the camp
ain of stimulating interest in
the building of good Iowa
roads will you have the good
ness to insert the following art
icle in yoNr paper.
Des Moines, la: "The trem-
endous commercial value of
good roads in Iowa can readily
be seen when we consider that
it costs Is cents per mile per
ton to move freight over a wag
on road in this country while in
England it costs five cents"
said Lafayette Young, editor of
the Des Moines Capital, and
originator of the River to Riv
err road idea.
"It is as George Harvey. edi-
tor of the North American Re-
view saws in his Sentember is.
sue that good roads constitute
investment,not dissipation and
that the motor car is moro
than vehicle of pleasure
This editor says Both are saw
ers of time and doors of labor.
Each, to, serves a highly desir.
able purpose i'm facilitating
that intercourse among individ-
uals which tends to strengthen
"a community bv gratifying
gregarious Instincts He is
right. The good road is as nee
essary as the United States
mail. 1t is far from being a
luxury. The automobile is an
educator the like of which we
have never before had. There
are 100000 miles of dirt road
i'm Iowa and the Improvement
of it is as good an investment
as Iowa can make"
Mr.. Harvey's discussion Of
the value of good roads appears
in connection with his claim
that the presence of automobiles
is not an evidence of prohigacy
and that the nation is not on
the verge of bankruptcy. He
says the automobile is but an
evidence of the wonderful pro-
sperity of the nation. He inter
estingly comments:
GLOW long is it since the
country was infested with
tramps, since an army of NAL,
contents marched under the
red banner from Ohio to Wash
ington, since baneful strikes pre-
vailed i'm industrial cnntorc