The Brookings register. [volume] (Brookings, Brookings County, S.D.) 1903-1971, 1910-09-01
SIOUX FALLS
SECONDS MOTION
is ANXIOUS FOR A RAILROAD
FROM
BROOklNGS TO QUEEN CITY
BUSINESS MEN OF TWO CITIES
TO HOLD CONFERENCE.

The business men of Brookings and
Sioux Falls may get together and con-.
plete the construction OF the Brook
ings and Sioux Falls railroad, or find
means to do it. In a letter to the
Argus Leader Charles T.. Hail OF this
city suggests the plan and Editor Day
on behalf of Sioux Falls heartily sec
onds the motion. The road is a nee
essity 10 both cities and we sincerely
hope something will come of the sug-
gestion.
In his communication Mr.. Hall
says;
Editor Argus-Leader: In the Bruce
Herald for this week | note the fol
lowing: The Argus-Leader W a
list of Improvement for the past twelve
months in Sioux Falls, which footed
up to the enormous sum Of $2,195, 500.
This shows that Sioux Falls is grow
ing at a rate that will make her rivals
in the state hustle some to keep with
in respectable distance. The fact is,
Sioux Falls is now, and will continue
to be, the metropolis of the state,
but should have a north and south
railroad running direct from Brook
ings to that city in order to secure
the trade of the eastern part Of the
state. AS it is now it is easier and
quicker to reach Minneapolis and St.
Paul than to go to our W metropo-
lis.
TWO facts therein deserve consid-
GRAFTON. The one that Sioux Falls is
and will continue to be the metropolis
OF South Dakota and the other that
there to neal grand opera, ride on the
street cars, see and hear Roosevelt,
have their pigs transformed into pork,
and do their shopping that cannot be
lone in the smaller cities. In a word,
keep South Dakota money at home.
AS stated in the Herald, one of the
would be the completion of the Brook
ings & Sioux Falls Electric railway.
The writer does not know the rea-
o n for the cessation OF work on the
line. Were they good or bad reasons,
to my mind, cuts 40 figure. They
were of yesterday, and it is of today
and tomorrow we should have to do.
Yesterdays mistakes or yesterdays
reasons will get us nothing. l believe
with the right kind of cooperation
the road a be speedily completed.
Almost single-handed, NJ. w. Savage
has built, equipped and is running
such a line in Minnesota Never was
done in Minnesota anything that can
no be done in South Dakota. How
ever, writing to the newspaper or
whiting a stick on the corner will
no do it. Why not have a committee
of ten from the Sioux Falls Com
mercial club and a like committee
from Brookings appointed and a
meeting held to formulate and carry
out plans for the completion of this
much needed improvement. 1t is
made as a motion. Do | hear a
second?"
In commenting upon the communi-
cation the A~rgus-Leader says:
Elsewhere on this page, Charles
E. Hall of Brookings, manager of the
Minnesota and Dakota Farmer, and
one of the live wires of the state,
makes a motion that a committee of
ten be appointed by the Commercial
club of Sioux Falls and a similar
committee from Brookings to get to-
gether and formulate some plan by
which the proposed electric railroad
from Brookings to Sioux Falls can
be built next year. The Argus-Lead-
er seconds the motion and suggests
that our Commercial club take action
soon, and see if the petty reasons
which caused the delay, if not the de-
feat, of this project a not be re-
moved. The country through which
the proposed electric line run is rich
in resources and products and such a
road as has been discussed for some
time would prove To be of great value
not only to Sioux Falls, but to Brook
ings as we'll.
Dean E. c. Perisho of the state uni
versity of Vermillion, in conversation
with the editor Of the Argus-Leader,
pointed out the rich ~unoccupied ter
ritory between this city and Vermil-
lion and expressed the hope that
Sioux Falls enterprise would get back
of a movement to connect the univer-
sity city with the states metropolis.
The country now in question is large
ly Sioux City territory, but 1t could be
added to Sioux Falls territory If
proper railroad facilities were pro-
vided. The people in the southern