The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1911-09-28
Four Hundred Thousand Acres at DIAL
las, South Dakota to Be
Opened
Up.
OCTOBER End TO 21sT
Method for Registering for These
Rosebud Lands Is Explained
to the Pub
lie.

All eyes are again on the Rosebud
country. In few days thousands Of
people will be on the road to this
homesteaders mecca. On October
the registration for Mellette and Ben
nett county land begins. During the
registration for Trip county lands in
1908 114,000 names went into the big
wheel Of fortune and were drawn out
at Dallas, S. D., on October 10. 1908.
The crowds that will visit Dallas and
other registration points during the
registration for Mellette and Bennett
county lands in October OF this year is
variously estimated at from $4,000 to
loo, 600.
The citizens Of Dallas are enthusiast
tic over the thousands of inquiries
that have reached the Greater Dallas
committee within the last few days
from all parts of the United States
and great preparations sre being made
to care for the crowds which they an
ticipate.
The system Of electrolier lights
which are being installed on the
streets will make the city as light as
day at all times In addition to this
$50 lights of different colors have
been placed on the water tower and
tank which Is erected on the highest
point In the city at the south end Of
Main street. Many concessionaries
from all parts Of the country have ar
rived and are now installing their
temporary booths for conducting var
ious kinds of business. The city OF Dali
las will get the largest percentage of
the crowd that will register for these
lands for the reason that it is the
nearest registration point to the land
to be opened and is the terminal reg
istration point at which all special
trains will turn around. Then again,
Dallas acquired an enyiable reputa
| ton for handling immense crowds
during the last registration and is SO
well advertised by reason thereof
that the people in the several states
will think of no other point but Dali
las-the Magic City of South Dakota.
Dallas is but four years old, yet ac-
cording to the last federal census. Is
the largest city In the entire Rosebud
country. Dallas has the most and the
largest hotels and is better equipped
for handling large crowd than any
other city in the Rosebud country.
The land to be opened is Mellette
county, which lies directly west of
Trip county in the Rosebud reserva-
ton, and Bennett county, which cor
ners Mellette on the southwest, in the
Pine Ridge reservation. There are
some Indians and goodly number of
squaw men and great many white
settlers who have bought land in Mel
lette county and who have been farm
ing for several years, and the agricul-
tural qualities of the county have
been proven.
In May Of the present year Mellette
county was organized and q full quota
of officers elected and White river
chosen as the county seat. White riv.
er is located in the geographical cen.
ter of Mellette county and on the Lit
tie White River and has already built
into city of Importance. A good
court house has been erected and the
officers are at work in their respective
rooms in this court house, and the set
! tiers coming into this county will find
complete county government and q
number of enthusiastic energetic PEG
pie already living in the county.
By recent act of congress on al
reservations hereafter opened to set
| Element the sale of intoxicating Ii
quors is prohibited for period Of
twenty-five years. There will there
fore be no saloons in either of these
counties
The method for registering for LAND
la as follows:
All persons who desire to register
for quarter section Of this lane
must go either to Dallas, Gregory
Chamberlain or Rapid City, s. D., OF
any week day between October ant
81 inclusive and there swear to an ap
plication which will be furnished hin
by the notarial association In that cit,