The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1910-07-29
SOUTH DAKO1A'S OPPORTUNITY
Show Actual Results BY Ac-
tual Exhibits of it's Pro-
ducts at the State Fair

ducts at the State Fair
South Dakota never faced a more
inviting opportunity for convincing
and profitable advertising than is af-
forded by the State Fair next Sep
TENDER.
While Nature smiles on every To-
cality, when everybody is prosperous
and opportunity is knocking at every
door, all that the most favored section
can offer to the possible immigrant or
investor Is a fuller measure of pros
perity or a wider margin of profit on
his investment. He is doing we'll
you ask him to let 60 where he is es-
tablished and cast his lot in with you
in the hope of doing better. That is
all you can offer, but the sound old
maxim, "Let we'll enough alone"
rings in his ear as he listens to you
and the conservatism inherent in
every man bids him hesitate to
change.
But when he is not doing we'll;
when his bank account is dwindling,
when the balance is on the wrong
side of the ledger, when his granary
is empty after the harvest time is
past and his hay NOW only half filled
when short feed forces immature
stock onto the market and the crop
is taken to pay the rent, he is not
only ready, but eager to listen to a
promise of something better.
That Is the condition today in
South Dakota's advertising field, as
1t stretches away from her eastern
border to the Atlantic coast. Very
recently the writer of these lines
made a trip through Minnesota, Wis
consin, Northern Illinois, Indiana,
Ohio, Kentucky and Virginia, paying
especial attention to the crop condi-
lions along the route. Except in a
very small section-three of four
counties In Western Wisconsin-he
did not see a single field of corr or
small grain that compared favorably
with the average crop anywhere in
the settled portions of South Dako-
to. Nowhere was the corn crop so
we'll advanced or of so good color, and
in the grain field the straw was
shorter, the stand poor, the heads
small and the grain dying for lack of
rain instead of ripening naturally as
it is doing here.
In propitious seasons the entire
United States is a magnificent grain
field. There is, apparently, but little
choice. But the adverse season, the
late spring, the early fall or the year
of scant rainfall is the crucial test
which brings out the latent POSSIBLE
tiles and comparative advantages of
the more favored localities.
VIZ jewellers in the favored land
have known full we'll of it's magnifi-
cent resources for years, but the bal
ance of the country does not know
and only n half believes the en-.
trancing story. You may hammer
statistic into a al for years; you
may tell him all about South Dakota's
gorgeous wheat fields, her miles OF
waving corn, her oats, and barley and
rye, her potatoes and pumpkins and
cabbages; you may describe accurately
and in glowing colors her magnificent
studs OF Percherons and Clydesdales,
her splendid herds of Shorthorns,
Herefords and Galloways, her Shrop.
shires, her Poland Chinas and
Plymouth Rocks; you may prove to
him by cold figures that the South
Dakotan creates more annual wealth
per capita than any other man, houses,
feeds, clothes and educates his family
better than any other man simply be
cause he is able to do it-and that he
Is able only because he tills .
richer soil under more genial skie.
thar. the other fellow does; you MAY
show to him that q share in all thes.
good things are at his command 70,
less than half the prices per acre o
the stony hillside in his boyhood home
and he may believe you in a dull, uu
comprehending fashion, but you hav'
not impressed him. How do I know
Why, simply because 95 per cent o
them linger on the stony hillside an,
they would not do it If they compre
hended and believed the story.