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Show PROSPERITY IN NORTHWEST. Mitchell, Houlh Dakota. Kept. JO. The South Dakota Idea this yesr Is ba emphasise the rich" of this stale. 1 When It Is confidently slated that thi yesr for the sixth eonferutlve year t ttotilh liakma will lead all olher state , f In 111 grenle.t per capita wealth, It can readily ho understood why Konth ; Dakota Is atulililoua to advsrUs it crops snd reRonrris. f- The report of fortnight ago regard- , Ing th heavy fall of snow snd dsm- age done to tho crops by frost, now r sppeers to bave been a tsla alarm. f , This Is the Judgment of a party of ( newspaper men snd repreaentstlve of : the t'hli ago, Mllwsukee A HI. lain Ry. , who have made a trip of more Uiaa , l.tuO miles tlmuigh tlie state during the last ten days. The greatest sail- J,' , mate of tlsmnse that Is now mnd by those In a position to know Is. throe ,. per cent dsinoge to corn crop of th t stale. In the rich agricultural sertk.n, In tho valley of the Missouri River, i crops appear to splentlld sdvantsne. f Occaalotinlly one finds fields where there hss box-n peihaiia t much wa- i, ter nnd the crops aru somewhat hat. u but this Is the inception. f The following Is a conservative eatl- 1 male ot the products of the state and r. their value for lkUll: rroduil. Itu.h.la. Valim tVHral MM-Oi-O fort i"". ll.l"'4 O.l. Mi... ..) ll oMDUO ii.ri.y ii i.e... 4-l,;;;jj 1 l,. I.'"' I ... and pjulliy i'!S'''(lJ ' We'd ailrl' i.i II"! Ill ; . i.l. n iini.liiet.aiel (mil 4 ' Sllt.aiala, attiue and camvut Uuw.uji Total IH.ti. While corn Is the second product In . total value, tho Dwll crop shows sn Increase of about thirteen and a halt million bushels over the crop ot liiua. At the rste corn is being Increased In sereage, the prediction tbst corn will be king In Houth Dakota within a few years, seems to be reasonable. The total production of new wealth for lliua was lll9,mtU00. Tho Inereas of nearly I27.0UU,U(iO of this year I sufficient answer to tb derogatory r ports about the stale that have appeared ap-peared within Ui last fortnlghL I'erhsps a atrcnger argument la favor of the slat is shown In an examination ex-amination of the bank deposits. In .uly, liHil, South Dakota banks hsd deposits smountlng to II 4 (HiO.ooii.Ikj; on July 1, 1(102, these amounted to S'in.f .noti.oo, and on July 1, l'.'Oj, to i ioL'.noo.iHio.dO. I in addition to the money In corn, wheat and the gold of Hie Hls k Kills, which hss been termed th richest one hundred srptare miles In the world, there Is good money In Houlh Dakota rattle. Men who bare come to Botith Dakota without money, and who now count their dollais with flv figures, ssy that raising chide is th only business III the world for which a man ran borrow his entire caul''. It Is a (act that Houlh Dakota bank are glad to help auy hrnest, industrious industri-ous young man, who comes well roeom- t men-led for his commerelsl integrity. In rattla business aud scc pt his cab tie ss collateral. A banter of Ipswich Ips-wich told your correspondent that during dur-ing twenty years of such loan si had not lost ona cent snd b could nam by the eor young men who had se cured from rJouth Dakota banks th . price of their first herd of est tie. A visit to the rattle ranch of Lee A -I'rvntls near Vermillion, B. D., waa -; cne of the Interesting features i f the ' above mentioned trip. Lee A I'rentis ' V are the largest catt.e breeders In ' bouth Dakota. They exhibit wlUi aome pride, among their valuable short horns, a two year-old hoi fer which r c:ntly took sweepetakea over tbo wuc. nor of the sw"epsinka at 1903 International Inter-national Live Htock Kxposlllon at Chi cago. Other shorthorns have just returned re-turned from a very victorious tour among Inter-state snd county fairs, winning etgh first prises at flkmx City, eight at Yankton and alx at I Huron. There are other stock farms In the slate that show blooded cattle I not far behind these prise winners. A large number of the farmers and stockmen, aa well as a majority of the Houlh Dakota editors bsve bran In attendance at-tendance at the Corn Palace at Mitch-ell Mitch-ell during th Inst week. The Bouth Dakota Commission to the BL l,ouls Imposition hss Just decided to reproduce repro-duce tho Mitchell Cora -l'alare as the Hoiiu. Dskola exhibit, and visitors to RL touls will have an opportunity to sen a building HO by 10V feet, th exterior ex-terior of which will be eutiroly con- , trticted of corn. ' e ., (. t I lk other Houth Dakota towns, Mitchell Is sliov'ng cortaldorahl pro. ' . - ' porlty and enterprise this year. The . cornerstone of the KO.QtK) city ball was laid ln.t week; the walls of a tMi.nmi hotel to be built of stnn and steel ar up above the first floor; a Csrnrgln library has been built at a cost of f 16 001), and a score of smaller buildings are undor construction, and Improvements and pavement of street ar under way. Aa sn especial reason for such a fine showing at this tlm, tl: la-1 legislature of bouth Dakota agreed to submit to voters of the state In November, 11104, the question of moving the state cspltol from Pierre to Mitchell. The people of the latter town, backed by a goodly number of those' In the most thickly populated portions' of the slate east of the Missouri Mis-souri It Iyer, and In the lllack Hills, who will .find Mitchell more accessible than Pierre, hav already tinder way a lively campaign by which they ex- f pect to sucurj Hie capital In Novetu- ber, 19'ii. The reproduction of the ' Mitchell Corn Palace at tho Bt. I-ouls I'.xpo.ltlon is regarded n a big card I lu Uit'lr favor. |