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Show One County in U.S. Has No Federal Employees, Report PIERRE, S.D. It's hard to believe, be-lieve, but there is at least one county coun-ty in the United States that does not have a single federal employee Armstrong county, South Dakota. It has only 52 residents, mostly Indians, and only 12 residents are taxpayers. It is a broad expanse of praire in the north central part ofv the state. The land is scarred by innumerable innumera-ble gullies which make travel possible pos-sible only by horseback. There are no' roads, towns, schools, or churches. It not only has no federal employees; em-ployees; it also has no state employees, em-ployees, no county employees, no government, no postoffice, no federal fed-eral agencies. In a moment the reader will be convinced there's no county. It does exist, however, 525 square miles of grassland and gumbo which supports thousands of. cattle, cat-tle, jack rabbits, coyotes and grouse. Armstrong's claim to fame as the only. U.S. county without a federal employee was revealed in a report issued recently by the joint committee com-mittee on reduction on nonessential federal expenditures, headed by Senator Byrd of Virginia. ' Armstrong county is part of the Cheyenne river Indian reservation. The land is virtually inaccessible. It is bound on the south by the Cheyenne river and on the east by the Missouri river. The soil is so poor that it has never been settled. It is good grazing country, though. For governmental purposes Armstrong Arm-strong county is attached to Stanley county on the south. All seven of its residents who voted in the last election voted the straight Democratic ticket. |
