Omaha daily bee., 1910-01-31
RAILROAD ROUTE IN TRIP
Chief Townsites to Be Winner,
Jordan and Carter.
LINE WILL MISS LARc
Dispute ON with winner over Per-
manent Location of County seat
Spring win BE Busy
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DALLAS. s. D., Jan. S0.--(Special.)-N
recent event I'm the Rosebud country has
created more intense interest than was oc-
casioned by the publication a few weeks
ago OF the route TO be followed by the
Chicago & Northwestern railroad in its
extension west from Dallas. Because new
towns were established in every neck and
corner of Tripp county there was for sew
eral months much r1valry in claims as to
where the railroad line would CO. Now all
this is settled The route is known be-
yond the peradventure OF a doubt. The
railroad authorities have served notice on
the Indians whose allotments will be
traversed and further steps are now being
taken for purchase of the right OF way
Supplies have been laid down at convenient
points along the present line between Nor
folk and Dallas and construction work will
begin In the spring.
1t would be difficult to find n situation
| Just like that presented by Trlpp county.
newly opened to settlement, 1t has become
proverbial that hardly a township In tho
county is without a postoffce. IL Is tri-
butte to the rapid growth OF the country. II
explains why there is such demand for
land in this vicinity. The exodus of farmr
/ ers from the east cannot fail to attract
attention. Any person who saw Trip
county last spring and has not seen 1t
since then would hardly know the land
now. Where all was one continuous stretch
OF prairie land, interrupted only here and
| there by the home Of a tenant of leased
land, one cannot go anywhere in the county
now out of sight of claim house. This
and the promise OF hundreds of new set
tiers in the spring resulted in the estab-
llshment of many small towns.
All Cannot he Pleased.
OF course all these communities wished
that the railroad might come their way
and there was naturally some disappolnt-
| ments. But II is generally conceded that
the railroad company chose the best route
considering the engineering features and
the great question of future development.
| Much Is expected of the three railroad
towns, Winner Jordan and Carter. The
first station west OF Dallas will be Colome
| known as Winona Qndlan for first -born'')
until the Postoffice department decided
that the name must be changed owing
to Its confusion with Winona, N. d.
Colome is a pretty townslte, has a good
start and will always be substantial
town. Carter is on the extreme western
edge of Tripp county, overlooking what
is left OF the Rosebud reservation. Win
ner is almost in the center of Trip county,
and west of it eight and one-half miles is
Jordan
| Carter is certain to equal, and perhaps
surpass Dallas in its growth, while Win
ner will no doubt be chosen as the per-
I manent county seat, now temporarily at
| Lamro. The three towns of Winner, Jor-
| dan and Carter, promoted by the
| Western Townsite company, an organiza-
! tion which is the outgrowth of the COM
| pany which founded Dallas and made such
a success Of it, Ernest A. Jackson is the
| president of the company. Among the sue
cessful lawyers and land men associated
with him are his brothers, Graydon and
Frank, Don. II, Foster general manager
Of the company. Eugene Barnum, Opie
| Chambers and f. c. Patterson. The work
which has been done to give the towns
| firm basis is phenomenal Already there
has been an exodus from Lamro to Win
ner, showing that there is the utmost con-
! fidence in the success of Winner and the
permanent location of the county seat
there Some Of the business men of Lamro
have refused for the present to change.
owing to the expense of moving, and be-
cause they believe there is chance for
|
LamrO or winner.
The railroad officials have placed the
townsite privileges entirely in the hands
of the Western Townsite company having
full faith in the integrity and reliability
of the men who have made such success
of Dallas. There will likely be a suffi-
Client show of strength the part OF
Lamro to make a contest over the county
seat, but Judging from the way the business
| houses have decided to locate at Winner,
| II is safe to assume that when the time
comes for voting the bulk of influence will
! be with Winner There is a strong senti-
ment throughout the county in favor OF
having the county seat located on the rail-
| road.
The town of Carter viii be the dis
tributing point for the country to the west
OF it, just as Dallas has been the supply
center for Trip county Many of the
business firms In Dallas, which were es-
tablished only in the hope Of doing a re-
tail business, have grown into wholesale
distributors and some Of them have been
known to send as much as 81 ,O0o worth OF
goods into Tripp county in single day.
With portions Of the Rosebud reservation
likely to be thrown open to settlement
within a year two, Carter will be the
center Of interest as many business en-
terprises will locate there In anticipation
of success such as was experienced az
Dallas. On account of its location on tho
threshold of Melette and Todd counties,
parts OF which will be the next land
opened to settlement, Carter Is certain to
be chosen as one of the registration points