The Kimball graphic., May 12, 1905, Image 1

About The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905

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The Litchfield
Manure Spreader
ROBERTS, one of the most no
ted agriculturists in the west estima
ted $250 as a conservative figure for the
value of the manure produced during sev
en months 011 a farm carrying 4 horses, 20
cows, 50 sheep and 10 pigs. We 'might
fill half a page with figures on the value
of manure to the farmer, but the principal
thing is to get it on to the soil so as to get
the full value of it. The Litchfield Man
ure Spreader does this. Hundreds of farm
ers have foumd this out to their complete
satisfaction. Let us show you the machine.
The Ochsner Store
DOGON THOSE
CARPETS
ttejr are
•®5?
give them "value received,, in the wear. The patterns are
most artistic and colorings superb. These famous carpets
are sold here exclusively at
Bowles' Furniture Store
Wsi. Htniucus, Pkes A. "VV. ITANNKJIAN, Y. PKKS
Kimball State Bank
("iNCOIirOKATK]) I
Does a General Banking Business
We can sell you a draft that is good in any part of the world.
We can give vou every accomodation consist
ent with sound and conservative banking
Fred Qriswold Cashier
Buffalo, Chas Mix, Aurora and
Heal Estate.
which will prove very attractive to Home Seekers or investors. Tormsall that can
be desired. If you have a town lilt or farm to sell, call or writeto me and if anyone
can find you a bayor I can If you have a freind who has property to dispose of re
t-jr him to me. If you want to buy a piece of property no oneserve you quite so well
Housekeepers know
when they get
Their Money Worth
out of a
Carpet
During the past 3o years
millions of housekee
pers have learned by ex
perience that
Richardson's Super
lative Carpets
Collections a Specialty and
Remitted on Day of Payment
F. A. Reynolds.
Kimball, S
AIR TANK SYSTEM
Armour With
C. 11. Tman, Kiiuball S. D.
Friend Tinan:Rcplying to your favor,
we have the compressed air pressure
here, put in for us by White of whom
you speak, They seemed to 1)« re
sponsible people and will fulfill their
contract. 1 was on the council when
we put the system in here and if I
was to do the thing over again I would
not alter the plans any. 1 believe it
is the only system for a town where
there isn't a natural elevation on
which to place a tank—and then 1 am
not sure it isn't the best. One tank
would be enough for Kimball—\ye
have two here—and it is necessary to
have a large cistern into which at
tirst pump the water and from there
into the compressed air tank. Here
we are pumping direct from a well 400
feet deep into the compressed air
tanks and it takes to much force to
place it into the tank, or rather it is
too slow a process. When we get a
large cistern to pump the water into
first and then with our surface pump
into the compressed air tanlf we will
have a perfect system. This is much
cheaper than a stand-piDe and I be
lieve more available. Even now we
have no further complaint on the
plant here. It is giving perfect satis
faction and the protection for lire pur
poses is all that could be desired. We
have had occasion to test it a few
times.
KIMBALL, SOUTH DAKOTA, FRIDAY, MAY 12. 1905
People Well Pleased
Their Water Works
Armour S. D., May 4. 1904.
We are using a 32-liorse power en
gine, but it is much larger than nec
essary for the service required and
uses too much gasoline. The city will
eventually have to buy a 5-borse power
engine to lift the water in to a reservoir
to save the expense of running the
big engine all the time and which
costs 30 cents an hour to operate. In
this connection I would say that the
make of the engine will have much to
do with the amount of gasoline con
sumed. Urge the city to buy n. Pair
banks & Morse er some other make
that has a "hit and miss" goyernor.
We are using a Fairbanks & Morse.
We use two steel tanks. One we
keep charged to full limit for tire pro
tection, the other we draw on for
domestic consumption. I should think
with your elevated tank, one steel air
tank would be sufficient. Our pump
throws 64 gallons a minute, but it is
too hard work to lift the water from a
400 foot well and force it into a com
pressed air tank carrying 60 pounds
pressure. You will have a decided
advantoge in taking water from your
elevated tank.
I cannot give you the cost of ma
chinery alone. The whole works were
bunched. But from the price White
quoted you as published in the Gra
phic last week I should think the
figures about right, they being practi
cally the same as given in other towns
in this vicinity with which 1 am
familiar. Before putting in our plane
here we inspected the plant at Madi
son, where they use the stand-pipe or
gravity system, and the air pressure
system at Howard and chose the last
named.
We have had no trouble with leak
ing mains, but had some trouble with
old taps, where metal pipe in place of
lead had been used.
As stated, I would not vote to adopt
any other system if it should fall to
my lot to do it all over again. I would
alter the plans some for this parti
cular place, but the system would be
the same. It is the thing, in rri7 opin
ion, for a same town and much more
economical to install than any cither
plan that has conic under mv observa
tion. It will take some little time for
a new man to become handy in opera
ting it, but he will catdh on in time.
In lire testing the the plant has
worked admirably. It is no trouble
to turn 100 pounds pressure on the
mains and you know what that means
to the man holding the nozzle at the
end of a string of hose.
I realize that it is quite a question
with aboard in no way familiar with
the system. It was quite an, experi
ment with us. I don't believe that
the people of K,mball will eyer have
any reason to aegret adopting the same
plan of improving their water system
and obtaining first-class tire protection
Yours Fraternally,
LEVI IV ^VAIT.
Over Five Inches of Raiil
This section has been visted with
heavy rains again this week, one of
Tuesday and one again yesterday,
nearly three inches having fallen. The
total precipitation ir the first 11 days
of the month at Kimball and vicinity
is 5:.'I0 inches, greater than any part of
the state so far as reported and a third
more than at Mitchell.
THE RAILROAD SIDE
Of the Proposed Government Control
of Railway Rates
Sioux Falls, S. D., May 8—Special:
An unthough of opposition has arisen
in South Dakota to the regulation of
passenger and freight tariffs by a
government board. That opposition
developed first among the land and
immigration agents, who are looking
to the settlement of the large areas of
cheap lands and fear that goverment
control would lack flexibility, and
that the state of South Dakota would
not have the advantage of the low ex
cursion rates that are made during
the entire year into all parts of this
suite. They also point to the fact that
immigrants coming into the state are
brought in with practically no expense
by the railroads, in so far as carload
lots of household and other effects are
concerned. They also fear that the
agents of the various land companies
would be compelled to pay full rate
railroad fare, while in territory from
which they draw the large number of
land buyers that come intoSouthDako
ta annually. They seem to think that
such system of controlling rates may
be all t|ght for the old and settled
states, but that it will work a great
detriment to the property interests of
the unsettled west, and will retard
the rapid increase in the price of farm
lands and will practically stop the
development of many of the thriving
towns dependent upon the agricul
ture and mining prosperity, so marked
in many parts of the west during the
past seven years.
It is safe to lay that in no other
state in the Union is the feeling of ths
people toward the great railway lines
in the state more cordial and friendly
than in South Dakota. This is due to
the fact that South Dakota owes its
present prominence in the sisterhood
of states to the liberality and encour
agement (jiven it by the railroads.
When railroads were first extended
into what is now the state of South
Dakota, this region was classified on
maps of the United States as a part of
the Great American Desert.
The railroads were the advance
guard c. the present civilization, for
when they had extended into and
opened up the country, farmers and
others by the thousands came to oc
cupy the rich lands lying along the
newly-constructed railroad lines.
At the t,ime of the great railroad
construction era early in the '80's,
Dakota had only small settlements
here and there outside of the town of
Yankton, ii the extreme southern
part, and a ft«w other frontier settle
ments along the Missouri river, and in
the eastern part of the territory now
embraced in tho state of South Da
kota. Such towns as already were in
existence were merely straggling set
tlements, none of which attained any
size or prominence until after the
railroads had extended a network of
lines through the territory.
Then, the towns already in existence
took on new life, scores of other towns
were started at convenient points
along the new railroads and, where
a few short months before had been
solitude whose silence was broken only
by the whirr of the rattlesnake, the
yelp of the wolf and coyote and the
cries of the other wild animals, or the
whoops of the Indians whg roamed at
will «ver the vast regions, became a
scene of animation and activity.
Long traius of immigrants and their
effects were to be seen unloading at
every one of the new stations along
the recently constructed railroads:
"prairie schooners" and tneir loads of
living freight lined every prairie trail,
and passed in one long and endless
procession to every part of the vasjt
region, which had been made access
ible and habitable by the industry ani
enterprise of the great railroad copy
porations in extending lines through!
a country which many believed would'
never sustain a population of any size.
From the new towns along the re
cently constructed railroad lines the
thousands of hardy and ambitious
white settlers spread over the sur
rounding region like a swarm of lo
custs. But, unlike the locusts, their
object was to build ub and not de
stroyed, and in apparently the twink
lieg of an eye houses commenced to
dot the prairie in every direction, and
in all directions over a wide scope of
country: thousands of men with plows
attacked the virgin soil and millions
of acres of land—up to that time a
desert waste and non-productiye—
were broken and brought under culti
vation, to yield rich treasures of corn,
grain and other products to the
world's supply.
In all the vast work of opening up a
new country, the railroads never fail-
Continued on pago eight)
To anyone who will name the man who
is spreading the gospel of Brule county lands
farther and wider than 1 am. 1 am not only
spreading the story of Brule county and her
natural and cultivated lands from one end of
the United Statss to the other but I am doing
it all the time—in the dead of winter as well
as when the birds begin to nest and the hun
gry home-hunting denizens of the efete East
begin to "sit up and take notice."
It follows, therefore, that if you haye
any land In this county, or in Buffalo or
Charles Mix, which you want to put on the
market at the going market price, I am the
man you want to do business with. 1 can put
your wants before hundreds of real estate buy
ers, and if I can't sell the land it is only be
cause the price is prohibitive.
I want more lands on my list, and I want
them right away. The time to sell land is
when there is a demand for it, not when you
have got to chase a man a hundred miles and
choke it into him. 1 advertise your lands with
no cost to you and keep it up until I find buyer
If you arc on the other side—a buyer in
stead of a seller—I have the property right on
my list and you can be dead certain of getting
what you want at a price that is bound to
make you some money. I relieve wants, bring
comfort to the sad and downcast and dispel ail
clouds of land sorrow. Open day and night, and
no trouble to show the goods. Address
J.A. Stransky:
Lock Box 43, PUKWANff, South Dakota
Be sure iind mention tbis newspaper when you write.
Don't Cook Your
..Face..
Over a hot cook stove when with
more ease, pleasure, comfort and econ
omy you can cook your meals over a
Detroit or a Jewel gasoline stove.
FOR SALE BY
BROOKS & BRCHAN
GERMAN AMERICAN LAND CO
We bay or sell Lands in Any
Partrof South Dakota or Iowa
We will rent your land and pay your taxes
For you. Write us regarding our prices on
Lands: References furnished if desired,
OFFICES AT
Kimball and Platte, S. D., SiouxCity, Iowa,
I. A. WEEKS, KIMBALL, S. B.
A. D. JONES, SIOUX CITY, IOWA
NO. 1204
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