The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1919-05-30
MILLIONS FROM LAND
SOUTH DAKOTA SCHOOL ACRE
AGE SELLS READILY AT
HIGH PRICE.

The sales Of state school lands this
year amounted to $4,197. 063, this ap-
plying to the common school fund
alone. In addition $324,481 OF endow-
ment, and capitol building lands were
sold, making the total of the sales for
the year slightly more than $4,5 0 900.
As an indication OF the demand for
he state lands, the average price paid
over the state for common school
lands was $78.77 per acre, with the
highest average in Hutchinson coun-
ty at $l34.S8 per acre, for 1852 acres
sold. The lowest average for any
county east Of the Missouri river was
$50 per acre in Grant county for g.
$50 acres. Brookings and Kingsbury
went above 500 in the averages. The
average received for the endowment
lands was $46.O1 per acre for 6,793
acres scattered in different sections
Of the state. Thefe has been criticism
Of the prices placed on the state lands
by the state appraisal board, as be-
ing oohigh, when in fact practically
all the tracts sold were eagerly bid
N at prices higher than those fixed
by the appraisal board. The demands
Tor land in the state this spring went
Tar be. ond expectations and with the
casy terms under the new law, bid
ders were ready to go to a higher
price han they would have gone un
Ter the old terms.
Wool growers of Dawson county are
TO meet in Mitchell to discuss the
feasibility Of pooling their 1919 clip
in C2dnr to cut out the middleman's
profit and reap a better price for
themselves and incidentally put their
wool into the hands Of the manufac-
turers at a trife less cost and trouble.
Sheep raising is rapidly becoming al
important industry in that section.
Last yearsabout 16, 900 pounds of wool
were produced in the county from APP
proximately 5000 head. This year, it
is estimated, there are between 5000
and 5000 sheep in the county and the
clip, it is believed, will total at least
10000 pounds, The quality of the
wool is said to be unusually fine. 1t
is planned to invite sheep growers in
surrounding counties to join in the
movement to market the wool at
some central point at the same time,
and if this is done it is believed that
section of South Dakota will be able
TO ship several carloads Of wool at
one time.
Capt. Seth Bullock, noted frontiers
nan of Deadwood, and for many yeas
the close personal friend Of Colonel
Theodore Roosevelt. has departed for
&, Nork r'+- During his stay there
he will endeavor to arrange for the
! presence of at least one member of
the Roosevelt family at the dedication
on July 4, lof Mt. Theodore Roosevelt,
near Deadwood, and the unwilling of
a memorial monument on the summit
OF the mountain In honor Of the late
eH-president. Col. Theodore Roose-
Welt, jr., was invited to be present,
but other engagements at that time
prevented his accepting the invitation.
Preliminary steps have been taken
toward the organization Of a young
mems booster auxiliary council Of the
Huron Commercial club. The young
men will perfect an organization with
in the Commercial club to act in uni
son with the club, but to carry on its
proceedings as an independent com
mittee with a voice In the clubs pol
icy through representation before the
board Of directors. acting through the
ways and means committee.
+. Lee e. Buck will be the new county
i. auditor Of Moody county even though
, re was unable to be in Flandreau TO
qualify on January 1. according TO
law. Buck, who enlisted and went to
was with Gen. Pershing's forces over
there during last falls campaign, but
nevertheless he was given a good
sized majority by the home folks for
the office Of. auditor.
The South Dakota law of 1909 pro-
.-hibiting shipments Of migratory birds
: killed by hunters, was upheld by the
U. s. supreme court in sustaining the
conviction under that statute Of w.
e. Carey, found guilty Of shipping Is
wild ducks to Charles C~omiskey, own
er Of the Chicago American league
baseball club.
On June Is, Clifford Pinchot. presi-
dent Of the Pennsylvania Rural Prog
ress association, and Senator Thomas
p. Gore, Of Oklahoma, will speak in
Mitchell before a state convention Of
farmers, which Is being arranged by
the national board Of farm associa-
.tiOns in Washington.
Lack of funds in the treasury OF
the state game department probably
will cause the ~postponement of the
improvements contemplated at White
Lake and Platte lake near the town
OF White Lake.
Business and professional women
Of Watertown are planning and have
have completed a temporary organiza-
ton Of a club, with over so women