The Kadoka press and Kadoka reporter. [volume] (Kadoka, S.D.) 1910-1923, 1912-09-06
A Large Colonization
Scheme


in Stanley County is evidenced by
the fact that body of Capitalists
headed by the Northern Trust Com
pany, of Fort Pierre, s. D., are en-
gagged in colonization scheme in
yolving around 5000 acres Of land in
White River Valley. These gentle
men propose to subdivide this land
into 10, 20, and 40 acre tracts, put in
large irragation plants and sell the
tracts to settlers on small payments
Of a few hundred dollars. il the
plans of these gentlemen are carried
through, (apd there seems now no'ob-
stacie to their consumation) this will
mean several thousand new people
for Stanley County. Preliminary to
their larger project, the Northern
Trust Company are. selling out tract
of 400 hundred acres two miles south
of Interior, which they have divided
into 20 small tracts. There will be
installed a Fairbanks Morse Oil en-
gine and an inch American pump,
and over two miles of main bitches
constructed to serve the various
tracts. Their plan is to incorporate
company to whom the pumping
plant and bitches and water rights
will be conveyed. This Combany
will have 400 shares OF stock, repre-
serting share OF stock for each acre
of lanG. As the tracts are sold, each
purchaser will be given a share of
stock in the Pumping Station for
each acre purchased. In this way
the purchasers will own not only the
land but each purchaser will own his
pro rata share in the Pun ping Plant,
bitches aud water rights and will be
independent of water companies.
Under this system the cost of irrag-
atiug these tracts should not exceed
So. GO per acre. 1t is the intention of
the promoters to operate the plant
and deliver water to the settlers free
of charge the first year and to en-
ploy competent irragation farmer to
instruct the settlers in their work.
The idea of the promoters is to
have these tracts put into onions, po-
tatoes, cabbage and alfalfa the first
year. If the crops are limited to
these products, there will be suffic-
lent quantity Of crops raised to insure
low freight rates to the large mark
cts.
The profits from this character of
market gardening run into almost
fabulous sums. The onion gardens in
South Texas earn a S1500.00 q year
and the land sells for shout that per
acre; 400 bu, of potatoes should be
raised to the on this tract and other
crops proportionately. 1t will be re-
membered that from the Mcpherson
Farm of 55 acres near Fort Pierre
over $4,000 in cash was taken last
year. A twenty acre farm in Inter
ior Colony should, under intelligent
cultivation produce good income.
With irragation there is no fear of
drouths and crops are always assur-
ed,
No tract in Interior Colony will be
sold to spectators. No more than
40 acres and no less than 10 acres will
be sold to any one person at any
price, and each purchaser win be re-
quired to put the tract bought by
him into cultivation in 1918. The
work on the big bitches and the in
stallation Of the Pumping Plant will
be given rs far as possible to those
purchasing tracts.
The people back of this project be-
lieve that in the near future the val
leys of Western South Dakota will be
the market gardens of America. 1t
will only be question of time until
Colorado, Montana. Nevada and
Utah will have to seek their markets
in the west, because our Dakota far
ers will be monpolizing the markets
at prices that the more western far
mers can not compete with.