Hot Springs weekly star. (Hot Springs, S.D.) 1892-1917, 1917-09-07
GERMAN LUTHERAN
SAN|TAR|UM
COMMITTEE VISITS HOT SPRINGS
TO VIEW PROPERTY
Will REPORT FAYORABLY Y
EXPECT TO PURCHASE NICHOLS
sAN1TRA1UM BUILDING WITH
IN VERY SHORT TIME

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IN VERY SHORT TIME
At a recent meeting of the German
Lutheran conference held in Trip,
this state, the matter of building or
locating a Sanitarium for their peo-
pie was discussed and the matter of
locating it in Hot Springs was pre-
sented by DR.. C. w. Hargens and Rev.
e. e. Falber of this city.
The result was that a committee
was appointed to visit Hot Springs
for the purpose of viewing the Mich
OILS Sanitarium building which is
offered for sale and Wednesday this
committee arrived in the city and
were taken in charge by DR.. Hargens
and e. P. DeMoulin, who is the pres
ident of the local Commercial Club.
The committee was composed of Rev.
X. Schroeder, of Freeman, S. D., Rev.
L. G. Jehn, of Howard, S. D., and
Rev. II. Wehking, of Alta, Iowa, who
is president of the Lutheran hospital
in Sioux City. Rev. Nitzky, of Rapid
City, also accompanied the party.
After looking over the property
and the city the committee expressed
themselves as very much impressed
with Hot Springs and stated that
they would make a favorable report
to their people.
In the evening dozen of our bust
ness men met this committee around
the dinner table at the Plaza Hotel,
where fine banquet was served and
as Mayor Hargens had asked e. P.
DeMoulin, president of the CONNER
cial Club to take charge of the din
ner he arranged for a few short talks
by the business men that might give
the guests of the day an idea of the
resources of this community and the
prospects for the further development
of these resources, providing Oppor-
tunities for hundreds and thousands
of homeseekers and business men.
The first speaker called on by Mr..
DeMoulin for short talk was P. F.
Ward, County Judge, who spoke on
the Angostura Irrigation Project and
what it will do for Hot Springs and
surrounding community in the way of
bringing new wealth and settlers.
judge Ward saia in part:
''For the past three years l have
identified myself with the Irrigation
Committee CT the Hot Springs Com
mercial Club with the result that
have thoroughly f:.miliarized myself
with the project and its prospects
and could without difficulty talk to
Sou until midnight on this subject
1 have never been more enthusiastic
on the matter than l am at present
= To begin with the infancy of the
project will say that some
twelve years ago the project was
located by the government engi-
neers, who at that time looked with
great favor upon our project, but
owing to the fact that this state
at that time had no irrigation dis
trict law and to the further fact that
they found at Belle Fourche another
feasible project where all the lan6
was still held by the government
they decided, in order to build one Of
the governments projects in this
state without delay, to build the
Belle Fourche project first. Thai
was completed some years ago anG
now forms one of the richest sections
of the state. However every off1cia
of the United States Reclamation
Service who has gone over our An
gostura Project has made the state
ment that this is even better ont
than at Belle Fourche, and in fac
will make one of the very best in the
country.
In 1913 the legislature of Soutf
Dakota made an appropriation o1
$4,000 to enable the state engineer
west Of Pierre to determine the cos
and feasibility of what was the1
known as the Berwaggon project bu
hot 0Sf 0F ho
project would be about $140 per acr,
which made it prohibitive. The stat,
engineers Office having a small a
mount of funds left instructed thei
corps to go up the Cheyenne Rive
to look for other feasible projects an,
of course located the project in Fal
River and Custer counties alread,
pronounced feasible by the govern
ment engineers. In order to- enabl
the engineers Office to make com
prchensive survey and report to tn
governor on the project in thes
counties the business men of Ho
Springs guaranteed the funds nee
cessary to complete such a surve,
and report by the state engineer
which report in detail is now ol
fila in the engineers Office, copies O
which can be had upon application
The state engineer was enthusiastic
over his findings here and his figure
show that at cost of about $35 pc
acre 100000 acres of land in Fal
River and Custer counties east o
Hot Springs can be irrigated success
fully and the soil under this projec
was pronounced after analysis, tn
richest in the state and probably il
the United States.
At this point let me state tina