Dakota farmers' leader. (Canton, S.D.) 1890-19??, 1912-11-08
CANNING FACTORY STARTED ON
SMALL SCALE PROMISES TO
BECOME BIG THING.
OTHER ITEMS OF INTEREST
From the Capitol City, the Various
State Institutions n From
Many Different Parts Of
tho Sunshine State.

anu WlllldlA Illlu, ~ hiohA5SA' "
being in the east to contract for the
plant. Hid is a booster for the west
ern part of the state. Severa years
ago he purchased a small tract near
Westfork, in northern Stanley county,
and begun gardening, irrlgatlng with
water from a Spring. He made a sue
cess of his garden, and as the coun-
try did not provide a market for all
his produce, he put in a small canning
plant, and put up the surplus from his
gardens, and supplied the neighbor-
hood with his canned vegetables for
winter use. He has now leased the
Mcpherson irrigated garden near Fort
Pierre for a term of years and will
raise vegetables on a more extensive
scale for himself, and put in a canning
factory to handle not only his own
product, but generally care for vegeta-
bles raised in the irrigated gardens
along lower Bad river valley.
Engineer LEAFS Report.
Pierre.-The Forthcoming report of
State Engineer Lea will have consider
able to say in regard to irrigation and
good roads, both of which propositions
have received a boom within the past
year. The big Belle Fourche govern
ment project is given an ultimate irri-
gated area of 10000 acres, of which
10000 acres has been entered. Out
side this the private projects for irri-
cation in the state 101,6S5
acres, comprised in about 500 farms.
Many small reservoirs are used in this
work. over 800 being reported to the
department. Seventy-nine different
applications have been made to the
department for pumping water from
streams of the safe to be used for ir-
rigation, and besides these there are
six different operating plants pump
ing water from the Missouri river,
making the total number of pumping
irrigation projects IS. The irrigable
area covered by these pump projects
aggregates about $1,000 acres. AS
many new applications for this man
ner of irrigation are coming in, this
acreage will no doubt be largely in
creased by the end of the year.
In regard to the good roads owe
ment, it is shown that there are IS, 900
miles of section line roads in the state,
but the general road plan is to push
the improvement of trunk lines cross
the state, both east and west and
north and south, and up to the present
about 1000 miles of such trunk lines
are plated and are being worked
more or less with others being worked
out.
Observe "Hobo" Day.
Brookings.-Unshaven, bewhiskered
students was the rule at the state col
lege last week. leading up to Hobo day
on Friday, November 1. Hobo day
this year displaces the historic annual
night-shirt parade, which always
takes place preceding an important
football game on the local field. One
week before the officers of the Stu
dents association issued a dictum
against shaves in order that Hobo
day might be realistically carried out.
Several of the professors tool this as
a fine cnance to relax a bit on the
morning grooming of hirsute adorn-
ments, and as q result there was a sur
prising amount of alfalfa" being
worn about the campus.
On Friday, all young men lead a no.
dos life, collecting grub" from
friendly citizens and cooking it in
the customary tomatoscans at various
open fires. The signal for abandoning
hobo camp was the opening of the
football game with Yankton college.
Several students who have sweet
hearts and violated the rule against
shaving, were duly punished by a lib.
eral application Of barrel stave pad.
dies. =
o'Nem Resigns.
Pierre.-P. H. O'Neill, of Faulkton,
one of the wealthiest of cattlemen east
Of the Missouri river, has gone to Los
Angeles to spend the winter, and prob.
ably make California his permanent
home. He has rendered his resigna.
ton as a member of the state live
stock sanitary commission, ON which
board he has served since its creation
several years ago, leaving a vacancy
to be filed on hat board.
Aid for Soldiers Home.
Pierre. The state has received from
the general government a draft for
$5,375, quarterly aid to the state sol.
diers' home.
Plans For Land Show.
Pierre.-Immigration Commissioner
]. D. Deets, has returned from a trip
over the western part of the state in
the interest of a state exhibit at the
Minneapolis Land Show, and reports
good progress. The mining interests
of the Black Hills are arranging for
the best show of mining products ever
put out by them, consisting If ores
and metals, in the list being a gold
brick worth $25, 900. The whole ex-
hibit will be worth over fifty thousand
dollars, and will be under guard for
the time that it is exhibited.
Will Build Depot.
Pierre.-The South Dakota Central
Railway company has notified the
state commissioners that they will
construct a depot at Thomas, in Ham.
lin county. where complaint was being
prepared for filing.
Barnard Wins Fight.
Pierre The Milwaukee has agreed
to extend a cinder platform, and con-
struct a shelter building with a stove
y 49,