Salt Lake Telegram | 1928-06-04 | Page 12 | "outlaw" Trader Pyramids $134 to Fortune

r 1 11 O Outlaw Trader Pyramids to FOrtu Fortune e i p 4 e e I y d 1 w. w I n J I t tC C c WiTh r N I. I t 5 I A o v I. I S. S 47 S SS S'S S S 'S y II t 7 0 q g r l' l The Outlaw trading post of Ben Butts lower rig right ht at Winner S. S D. D is no ordinary mercantile In a shack a block square he sells any anything thin g from pins to harvesters and the store has earned him a fortune in the town where he lived by shovel shovelling ling snow in 1920 At the left is Mrs Butts with some of the customers who come from g 9 ranch and reservation country A AJo A I I WI WINNER R R. R D. D AP In AP-In In Winner Winner Win Win- ner ncr ner at the end of the railroad and the gat gateway way to the tile Rosebud cattle country a self styled outlaw who made marle his his' living at odd Jobs eight tight years ago has developed a retail business which has hag made him one I I S of Jf f the the theten ten leading individual taxpayers taxpayers taxpayers' taxpayers tax tax- payers payers payers' of South Dakota Ben Butts is the outlaw and he owns and operates the Outlaw Trading Pot Post Post which sells anything from froma a a. hairpin to a tractor His customers are ranchers and farmers In some of the last Indian reservation territory opened In the United States I Eight years ago Butts landed In Winner broke but eager to work It was sas winter All he could find to todo todo todo do was shovel snow He cleared i banks banks' eight feet deep from rom store storefront storefront storefront front sidewalks at 50 cents a store storefront storefront storefront front and when he had money enough he bought a peddlers peddler's out out- tIt fit Presently he found that he lIe had made and he Invested it In a ashack ashack ashack shack and a stock of merchandise Today he is reckoned In Winner as having pers personal nal and commercial as assets assets assets as- as sets of around a million dollars Butts Butts' principal store Is in Winner Winner Winnet Win Win- ner net at the end nd of the railroad line He has Ilas five branches to which he trucks supplies He makes no pretense pretense pre pro tense of building fine stores His places of business are shacks In m the true sense of the word word simple simple sturdy structures of sun blistered boards l His s advertising methods are as picturesque as the career he has carved out for nor himself There Ther is isan Isan isan an Outlaw rodeo an Outlaw baseball team basketball team or orchestra orchestra orchestra or- or chestra and bank When Butts first started his store ho JIG kept It open twenty-four twenty hours a day Now Kow that competition has abated he has hag put his establishments establishments establishments establish establish- ments on orlan an hour eighteen-hour day n