The citizen-Republican. (Scotland, Bon Homme County, S.D.) 1???-19??, 1913-09-11

| INTERESTING CHATTER
IN IOWA PROMOTION :

oouInai. iHeie Is lot
nlstory. especially IN q new country
As heVef sels INTO the records. y NJ
cue o. 1ne early Gays OF Caihou1
SouH.y. IN our anniversary edltlon
~. - carly history was put on RECORD
Dut there WIS one Dit Oh history ina
Was overlooked.
In the early 7cs the west saw man.
railroad schemes born and die withou
reaching manhood. Among these which
never were completed was one. we be.
- - :" e1iiou ~ 'p"a 'a'
s.M - oniS Dat ~ GUS Ioho w,
800 49, 800 = ~ 'na. wniol
49, ~t W ho,a rons Doase % 3iouA
staytca mnesh S,aprp oast than i mar,
Tnnawn IA ia,."e. Gus nan OF
a,as nna ~ w. 49, 81 ~ =.
day, VIZ"
% far "a tbis .oc,io,, ~ +,o
,ry upos cnn,,orpaa rnhn IL pnrnani
md saorea " ponrsnns ,,o,.o ~ 49,
inr snirit ,nd thnir nctiyitv NC 80
fined To Tho road thro,,1h lha''n
county npd 49, No aacn a. 60 ~
uy, 49,. - r,
"e se'ese ~ "ns.ih ane ,an OF ae.|
a. ~ ,"a'es' was nhst piousn. 70
~ as,eI.lon ~ 'le set.lers N INC loinl
~ piopuseu . per ,eht ,ua 10 assist
r,otar wits o" 'o.u, ~ hnst osery
~ vac ~ ~ aims nt nv iueh VI
man doelarea mar e. was a scheme -
. ron fhn AftlnJC tif IA 4. ~ M
who nv fro ,yay wns one ~ tho sn,noth'
asst man tbnt svnr worked In +ho Jou,o
political tleld. moi the indignant voters
and In a short talk converted everv
man In the various townships Ha
proposea th.t n INV ha yotnd hut -
was not to be paid until tho road he'd
was built and the trains running Th,s
proposition nut n difrer,nt outlook 70
the Man md CARRIED with nyt onv
oub wy
TIL. n.xt
ran a nn,nbor ~ Iinas thro 81, Ing paos,es
q u nuihoef or lihes .nroush ,Ne cen.
sna pa.. " .He county, running east
warm nant s,,r,,a unu WIS tnaua tne
sna = hais N.Y. anu ran apou1 one
we'll CIV m,,,es noI.u Oh "here ROCK
=. ~.
W eatis .am sanSs OF graders
rThree nr;nctn, nntr 49, "as oesut,
warsr pn n'p poih's were seiecteu TO
go. ~ :. lhe crossing OF Lake
$50 y y" seStion ~. one IN Garheid
g. anio ne ~ 'he loon river IN
sh ~ , eounay the casual observer
AN t .bAeu ,ahe .ne rsai ming n I'M
voted ~ ,nolrad on - aas "aa oeen
schsu, - no1Neu a. ~ theFe souiu De no
a. II, any we 40 not Know now
ehat Vas pu. ialer ~ was notlced
Srhara -, ~ Was uoNe III townships
~ .aN "as voted
fsight mere Is where the scheme took
FFNo tit iIitIS WeT6
not many settlers in those days and
none o those VINO We're residents of
the county paid any tax. but most of
vie iahu was owned by what were
SHOWN as spectators n when the
tax was entered against this land the |
eMnuts. no' neing familiar with the
Ynnnay was pau tne saA; -Hhen the
ro,,nts ~ 49, 49, ~ .ne nanos OF the
uns treasurer the question came up
eanna ala osiolseu 70, ana Mr., Dun
son,an hoe naNe Inuch trouble IN
w.s Ms ny oA.isels .ha. tne money
Sana at ,aas ~ aanoun. OF the work
ts,k ah,ut ~ - sa Vas CONSIDERABLE
tha reane, .ne tlhe OUT most OF
nro,antass was nnaily PAID over to the
nm =. ~ ioau.
Nraw M. snnSnsn p,ah was. we never
rac+as ~ - .le promoters ex-
fnr cor,n,staa ~ aIlount OF grad
rnf.S rsp,,a ~ me win the tax
Of nronertvs ~ mn aa NE urge piece
s.+a hi,ps suIn over TO some we'll
3 hsS Ir ,nsat nv me panic or rs
M nrnsnsctt,,e ,a,,ss .na. mere was
mofers n,ada tba hast af az, pio
saw. themselves nv. ,oaa ~, .aI "
hufif bY,f .latsr pa,L 80 ri neses
Des MONIES who b,,iit tha or sauo, oi
row gauge through c,.r ,ata.
revived the franchise and secured the
right OF way from, pncEn.aIi 1itn LAY
Sac City and for a number of vear.
seut q gang of graders to do work m
the roadbed Thus they kept the fran
chise alive and In time sold the road
bed n right of way to the Milwau-
kee when it built to Sac CITY and Storm
Lake from Rockwell City.
Building the railroad was NOT all \
plan. G r. Pearson nurcha sod saatnS
is in Center fownshtn ana 1aia 80.
site Just east Of Lake Craar 49,
the center OF the section. We beiieva
that the town was to be cale5 cal
wa. renor5ad 1hts y pia. never
probably was located on one of tha
most slightly tracts of land In the com
ty and Ii the road had gone thro,,ah
II would nave been the corntv sat
m,
of this town and It was broken M Nv
Q lumber Of farmers who responded to
tas Is sai d,o OF nelson Bacon to come over.
land fnr ! , anu iis II preak u the
trna. III q park. Lnere never We're
pianseu, put there was a splen-