The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1914-11-13
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1'The Lord Helps Those
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| OF hard work on the part OF the pro-
moters, we believe that the plan could
be worked out successfully and the
steam cars would be running into
Wood by July 1st next. Now here is
our plan:
There isn't a question of a doubt
but that when a railroad extends to
Wood, but what the value of lands
within radius of ten miles would
advance from S5 to so per acre, and
this would also be true of lands for
five or six miles on each side of
the right of way clear through to
Winner. Now if this is true, would
it not be good business, for every
owner of land within this radius to
subscribe to the stock Of a railroad
company TO be organized to build a
road from Winner to Wood, to the
extent of from one to three dollars
per acre for every acre of land he or
she owns within the radius mention
ed?
Would it not be good business for
every resident of Wood, and every
other town through or into which
this extension would be built, to buy
enough stock in such an enterprise to
equal the amount it would cost him
to move should the road be extended
and miss the town in which he is lo-
Gated?
1t would be good business judge
ment for every townsite company
through whose townsite the road
would be built, to make an agreement
with the railroad company to buy an
amount of stock equal to fifty per
cent of all lot sales made within the
next five years in their respective
townsiteS.
With the hearty cooperation on
the three above propositions, with
some good booster to take hold of the
proposition and push it along the
lines above mentioned, by eliminat-
ing all graft and making it purely
legitimate business proposition, we
believe that by united effort that
we could have railroad into Wood
by July 1st next. We would like to
see the plan tried out any way.
We realize that it means pile Of
hard work for some one. but he who
accomplishes the task will be pub
lie benefactor and his name will live
forever.
We also realize that there are those
in the community who may scott at
the plan and say that it canno1 be
brought to a successful issue, but
these are the sort of people who al
ways knock every plan, every idea
that tends to advance the town or
community in which they live. They
are commonly known as "kneckers.
If you have. "a better plan we should
like to give it publicity, but let's de-
wise some way, some means of getting
that railroad. We need it, in fact
we must have it if we expect to con-
tinue to live and prosper. If we ex-
pect to make this country what it
should be, if we expect to attain the
highest state of development intel
lectually, morally, agriculturally.
In the above plan you are not ask
ed to make a donation of single
penny. but you would own just as
much of the road built as you sub
scribed stock for. We estimate that
it would cost approximately $4,000
per mile to build road from Winner
to Wood, and it would require about
$3.50, 600 or $4O0, 900 to build this ex-
tension. In the plan outlined above
ought to raise the required :amount
of funds. The road itself would then
be free Of all bonded indebitness.
After the road is built it no doubt
could be bonded, and if thought best
a refund could be made to subscrib-
ers of stock pro rata. There is no
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leased to the Northwestern, once it
was built, and eventually, when the
money market eased up, it could be
sold to the Northwestern for at least
as much as it originally cost, and in
this way every stockholder would
finally receive all the money that he
originally invested in the enterprise.
There waa a good crowd out to
hear Rev. Keepers last Sunday morn
ing at the school house. You may
not know it, but it is fact that
Wood has real live Sunday school
that meets every Sunday morning al
ll:00 o'clock. Better come out and
see for yourself next Sunday. II
won't hurt you and may do you |
whole lot Of good.