Jasper County Democrat, Volume 5, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 26 April 1902 — SOUTH DAKOTA LETTER. [ARTICLE]

SOUTH DAKOTA LETTER.

Miller, S. D., April 20. Mr. Babcock;—l thought I would write you a few lines. I want the paper sent to Miller, South Dakota. Send me the back numbers from April 11th. I find this country to be in a prosperous condition. Cattle are now living on grass and people tell me that they have not fed any grains all winter and their stock is in better condition than our cattle in Indiana. In the fall, when they get through with their horses, they turn them out and don’t get them up until they want.to go to work in tho spring, and they come off the grass in very near as good flesh as the stock does in Indiana in the fall. Young men get $25 per mouth on the farm. The land-owners rent their far ms for J where the tenant furnishes seed and tools. Where the landlord furnishes setd, feed and tools they get and also furnish cows and give half the calves and half the butter, or milk, if you sell it. I did not get here in time to get a farm with stock, so 1 have moved to the county seat and am working at my trade, stone masonery and plastering. I struck a job right away and was offered $4 a day, by the day. I may stop here for some time but I think I will go either to the Big Horn Valley in Wyoming, where I can get a homestead/ or to North Dakota. Publish this if you think it worth while. I haven’t tried to flatter the country in the least. Yours Respectively,

C. J. MARTIN.