The Mellette County pioneer. [volume] (Wood, Mellette County, S.D.) 19??-1971, 1921-07-22

him to get to the head o. a large
ufacturing concern. 1t is a safe bet
that he never began to watch the
clock an hour before quitting time,
that he didn't leave any Of his own
work for someone else TO do, and that
he was always ready to take on a
little more responsibility whenever
the boss picked him out for a bigger
job.
George Moore last Monday finished
harvesting eighty acres of about as
fine a Macaroni wheat as you would
care to see. The wheat is of fine quail
ity, a good color and a nice plump
berry. 1t will no doubt grade No.
and it is estimated that it will yield
from ~ to 30 bushels per acre. There
is some mighty good wheat in this
territory this year and there will be
more bushels threshed than ever
before. Winner papers last week
quoted Durum wheat at but rs cents
a bushel. 1t costs the farmer out here
in Mellette county something like 30
or 40 cents a bushel TO get his wheat
hauled to market, and this, together
with the threshing and harvesting
bills he must pay leaves him but
mighty little for his labor. Oats and
shelled corn were only bringing 25
cents a bushel on the Winner market
last week, and this price would not
pay the overland freight charges on
the product from here to Winner.
Millions are still being sent to Europe
by America to help %rehabilate that
war-torn section of the universe, and
nurse those sections back to sufficient
strength to again set the world aiame,
while our own country-these isolated
sections are allowed to continue to
drift along as hest they can Isn't it
about time that ~ great financiers
give a little attention to our own
America? We have one of the best
agricultural countries that lay out Of
doors, but it cannot be fully devel
oped until such time as we are provid
ed facilities for marketing our grains.
The railroad company has been ex
pected to provide us with railroad
facilities for the past nine years-they
claim that they cannot build any ex
tensions because they have not the
money and cannot get tabor and
materials have been too high, and a
thousand and one Other reasons. Yet
the fact remains that this country can
not develop into n Of the nations
best bread baskets until the tillers of
this virgin soil are provided with
better and cheaper transportation
facilities to the markets.
1t is going to cost Mr.. Moore some
thing like $500 to get mis- wheat
crop hauled to the Winner market
this year. Add to this what it will
cost him to transport his hogs to the
same market, and what it will cost
him to get his lumber, coal, and other
heavy freight hauled out from the
railroad, and you will find that it is
costing him something right around
the $1,000 mark this year to live out
here in this new country and develop
it. Every successful farmer in Mel
lette county is making a like contri
button each year and the whole would
amount to an amazingly large sum, a
goodly portion of which can be
charged up to pure waste. We are
spending thousands of dollars for
good roads, and we have as good a
road from here to Winner as u
could expect, but it does not affect
overland freight rates.
Wouldn't it be good business.
wouldn't it be the sensible thing to do
to spend a little money to get the
railroad extended to some point in this
county 80 as. to give US better market
facilitiesi