The Black Hills union and western stock review. [volume] (Rapid City, S.D.) 1904-19??, 1911-01-27
PRAISES BLACK HILLS
We Reproduce E. H. Perry's
Speech Before Conser-
vatiOn Congress.

e. II. Perry of this city made q
splendid speech before the Dry Farm
ing-Conservation Congress at Pierre
this week that is being commented
upon all over the state. The talk
will do much to boost Rapid City and
the Black Hills. The following is
the speech in part:
"All of us ought to be proud o. o."
state, for it is q state to be p.,....>. (.
You all know something of the agri-
cultural and industrial enterprises
east OF the river, which is the natural
dividing line of the state. | want to
draw you attention to that part of
the state which has never had q
chance until the past few years. 1t
has been isolated, cut Off from fellow
ship, and otherwise treated as dis
tant cousin. The only chance for
getting acquainted was at political
conventions when she would come to
her own by sticking together. Times
have changed in the Black Hills,
mostly because OF the bands of steel
that ties us together, stronger than
if they were Of gold. 10 the c. g. N.
W. and the G. M. & S. p. railways be-
long the credit of uniting these ties.
We can now do something to develop
that which nature has so freely be-
slowed upon us. For i'm the Hills we
are rich: not only in silver and gold,
but in something of greater value to
us as a community, the real materials
for industrial enterprises. l succeeded
in getting into a controversy with a
Colorado newspaper the other day.
The contractors of Denver have an
association of their own, and it is
part Of their religion to boost Colo
RADIO products, in fact they pledge
themselves to use their own products
in preference to any other. The Re-
publican OF Denver quoted me saying
that there is no high grade lime pro-
duced in Colorado, that whenever
they needed a lime that was free from
magnesia, or in other words high
grade calcium lime that they had to
60 to Missouri or South Dakota to
get it. They seemed to take otfense
at this, but it was so true that at a
gathering of the contractors at the
builders exchange in Denver on Sat-
urday, January IA, it was conceded
unanimously t h a the contractors
would pay so per cent more for Mis-
souri, lime than for any lime they had
ever used that came from their own
state. The truth is that we can make
a better lime in the Hills than they
can in the Rockies. Right within the
limits of Rapid City we have fire
clay, shale and a sand, limestone
and gypsum, with which we can make
better fire brick, pressed brick, viri-
fled brick, paving brick, sand lime
pressed brick, sewer pipe, portland
cement and gypsum plaster than they
can make in Denver, from the raw
materials found in or near that city.
Not that we are making all these
things, but we are making some, of
them, and others are waiting the
necessary capital to develop them. In
fact, the manufactured goods we are
already making are superior to those
in our neighboring states. Our gyp-
sum is higher in sulphate of lime,
which means purer gypsum than that
found at Fort Dodge, la, in Kansas
or any Of the gypsum fields of the
central states. 1t is the best raw ma
terial that can be found anywhere
around us for hard wall plaster, keens
cement or for fertilizer. 1t is so pure
that company manufacturing hard
wall plaster plaster at Fort Dodge
and in the Hills is said to depreciate
the strength of their Black Hills plas
ter one-third in order not to make a
better article in the Hills than at
Fort Dodge. We now have two con.
Germs making gypsum plaster in the
Hill. Along this line l might state
that sufficient capital has been en-.
listed to put in third plant at Hot
Springs which will be duplicate of
the plaster plant at Niagara Falls and
will be the largest and most up-to.
date plant in the Black Hills. At
this plant will be manufactured a