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Show mmmmmm . rlmBmammi PROSPERITY IN NORTHWEST H Mitchell, South Dakota, Sept 20. H Tho South Dakota Idea this year Is to H emphasize tho riches of this state. H When It Is confidently stated that this H year for the sixth consecutive year H South Dakota will lead all other states H in the greatest per capita wealth, It nH can readily bo understood why Souta 'H Dakota Is ambitious to advertise it H crops and resources. M The report of a fortnight ago regard- , H tng the heavy fall of snow and data- H ago done to tho crops by frost, now appears to have been a false alarm. This Is the judgment ot a party of H newspaper men and representatives of the Chicago, Milwaukee ft St Paul Ry. H who have made a trip of mora than H 1,200 miles through the state during iH the last ten days. The greatest estl- H mate of damago that Is now made by thoso in a position to know Is, three per cent damage to corn crop of the state. In the rich agricultural section. H in tho valley of the Missouri River, jH crops appear to splendid advantage. M Occasionally ono finds fields' where H there has been perhaps too much wa- ter and the crops are somewhat late, H but this Is the exception. jH Tho following Is a conservative call- H mato of tho products of tho state and mammal their valuo for 1903: Troduct. Bushels. Vain. H wheat M.OOO.OOO $35,000,060 mammal Corn 00,000.000 a, 000,000 mammal Pats 30,000,000 11,000,000 Immal liarley ll.OOO.OOO 4.000,000 mmal J,ln 2000,000 t.ouo.oos mM "ye I.. U0O.OO0 S00.0O0 mmaH T.lve stork 52.000,000 H ijiiy him liiwmory 7,ouo,00 mawmWal l-KKs and poultry 6.000,000 lmmal Hay , 12 000 000 aiaWmm i . """) js,vw,wv mawmawmawm 001 and hides 1800000 awmWml Oitrden products nnd fruit 4,000004 mmH Minerals, stone and cement 12,000,000 H Tota' ...H48,45O.0O0 H Whllo corn 1b tho second product In mH total valuo, tho 1003 crop Bhows an H Increase of about thlrtcon and a halt H million bushels over tho crop ot 1002. H At U10 rato 90m is being Increased in H acreage, the prediction that corn will H be king In South Dakota within a few WU years, seems to bo reasonable. The H total production of new wealth for mammal 1002 was S119.049.000. The Increase mml of nearly $27,000,000 of this year Is aaml sufficient answer to the derogatory re- amfl ports about the state that have ap- mma, pcared within the last fortnight H Perhaps a stronger argument In H favor ot the stale is shown In an ex- H amlnatlon of the bank deposits. In mammal vUly, 1901, South Dakota banks had 1 on July 1, 1902, these amountod to mmafl S30.000.QOO.00, and on July 1, 1903. to mams 132.000,000.00. H In addition to the money In corn, H wheat and the gold of the Black Hills, 1 which has bcen termed the richest H one hundred square miles in the malms' world, thero Is good money in South H Dakota cattle. Men who have come to mmai South Dakota without money, and H who now count their dollars with five mmH figures, say that raising cattle Is the only business in the world for which a man can borrow his entire capita'. mnH It Is a fact that South Dakota banks mm are glad to help any henest, lndustri- mM ous young man, who comes woll recom- mm mended for his commercial Integrity. BM in cattle business and accept his cat- mm tie as collateral. A banker of Ipa- wlch told your correspondent that dnr BM Ing twenty years of such loans he bad mnH not lost ono cent and he could name mnM by tho score young men who had se- . mma. cured from South Dakota banks the maH price of their first herd of cattle. mm A visit to the cattle ranch of Lee A mma. Prentls near Vermillion, S. D., was one of the Interesting features cf the jH above mentioned trip. Lee' ft Prentls JmaH ere tho largest cattle breeders In amH bouth Dakota. They exhibit with some 'JmmH pride, among their valuable short- H horns, a two-year-old heifer which re- H ccntly took sweepstakes over the win- .mma! ner of the sweepstakes at 1902 Inter- JM national Live Stock Exposition at Chi- H cago. Other shorthorns have just re- H turned from a very victorious tour N among lnter-state and county fairs mmH winning eight first prizes at 8kux mmH City, eight at Yankton and six at amH Huron. There are other stock farms' H In the stato that show blooded cattle H not far behind these prize winners. 'BM A large number ot the farmers and H stockmen, as well as a majority of tho mml South Dakota editors have been In at- ' H tendance at the Corn Pnlnr-n ltl., VmVml ell during the last week. The South mmal Dakota Commission to the St IxmiIs 'BM Exposition has just decided to ropro- !H duco tho Mitchell Corn Palace as the mmH goutu Dakota exhibit, and visitors to H St Louis will have nn opportunity to amal see a building 140 by 100 feet, the ex- terlor of which will be entirely con- mafl structed of corn. iH .LI!ia,,0.her.. S?uth Dlota ' towns. '- Mitchell Is shor'ng considerable pros- 'mmnl porlty and enterprise this year. The :maH cornerstone of the $40,000 city ball IBaH was laid last week; the walls of a maH $50,000 hotel to be built ot stone and - steel aro up above tho first floor; a -mmai Carneglo library has been built at a maH cost of $15,000, and a scoro of smnllnr 'smafl buildings aro under construction, and fl Improvements and pavement of streets 'mmal are under way. As an especial reason 'H for such a flno showing at this time. the last legislature ot South Dakota mH agreed to submit to voters of the state amal In November, 1904, the question ot H moving the stato capltol from Pierre - maH to Mitchell. Tho people of tho latter mmai town, backed by a goodly number ot H thoso In tho most thickly populated maH portions of tho stato east of tho Ml H sour! River, and In the Black Hills. who will find Mitchell more accesslblo ,mmai than Pierre, bavo already under way ?maH a lively campaign by which thoy ex- ',maH poet tosecurj tho capital In Novem- M t,.c.,J??4A Th0 Production of the '. Mltchol Corn Palaco ot tho St Louis M Exposition Is regarded as a big card maH In their favor. H |