Faulk County, SD History .....Chapter XXIV Wecota 1909
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WECOTA



    Wecota is a new town on the extension of the Minneapolis & St. Louis

railway, about 300 miles west of Minneapolis and 65 miles east of the Missouri.

It is located in the heart of the "New Empire," in a well settled farming and

stock raising country. The farmers here are all well to do and independent, have

fine homes, good outbuildings and good bank accounts.



    The crops are always good here and this section has not had a crop failure

in 12 years. Wecota has three large elevators, a state bank, grocery stores,

general stores, drug store, hardware store, lumber yard, liven' barn, implement

and harness dealers, etc. A section house and stock yard are also located here.

The business men who have located here are of the broad minded, enterprising

sort such as are to be found in the west, and they are enjoying a good trade and

are glad they are here. Although not more than a year old, Wecota has a start in

life that would take several years to accomplish in the states east of here and

its citizens are of the kind that would make a town thrive and grow in a country

that was not endowed by nature with an ideal climate and soil such as is found

in this vicinity of the "New Empire." The town has no dead ones or croakers who

are ever ready to belittle the efforts of its enterprising citizens in making

Wecota grow. It is bound to advance steadily. They have the soil, the climate

and the push and energy to back it up and they invite the business men, the

farmers, laborers and mechanics who are struggling along in the stunted and over

crowded communities east of us, to come here, acquire the western spirit and

grow up with us.



    Wecota is ten miles directly north of the county seat, with a beautiful

stretch of farming land fast being put tinder cultivation, with the following

well established places of business, viz:



Wecota State Bank, E. J. Levong, cashier.

Archer's Merchandise Store, conducted by Frank Archer and his experienced wife.

Hardware store, G. P. Kakkan, proprietor.

Grocery store and postoffice, James McIntyre, postmaster.

Wecota Independent, R. S. Holder, editor and proprietor.

Drug store and pool hall, J. W. Balsom, proprietor.

Livery stable and agricultural machinery, Lars Jacobson, proprietor.

Wecota Hotel, E. A. Magnuson, proprietor.

Independent Elevator Co., James McIntyre, manager.

Pacific Elevator Co., Peter Christensen, manager,



Additional Comments:
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HISTORY OF

FAULK COUNTY

SOUTH DAKOTA

CAPTAIN C. H. ELLIS



TOGETHER WITH BIOGRAPHICAL SKETCHES OF PIONEERS AND PROMINENT CITIZENS



ILLUSTRATED

19O9





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