Faulk County, SD History .....Chapter XXV Future Growth 1909
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CHAPTER  XXV.

FUTURE GROWTH.



    The future growth and prosperity of the business centers are dependent here

as everywhere upon the law of supply and demand. While the laws of trade give

active employment to an army of workers whose many wants must be supplied, it is

to the creators of wealth that we must look, and upon them depend for the

development and prosperity, that constitute actual advancement and future

greatness. To the tiller of the soil—the farmer—must we look and upon him depend

for the supplementing of nature's vast resources, in soil, sunshine and climate.

Practical illustrations upon every hand shows us that Faulk county stands in the

front rank with the class of her citizens not only in physical efforts, and in

all the departments of labor but in the use of mechanical appliances to produce

the most with the least possible expense. The seeder, the header and the steam

thresher many times multiplied the labor preformed in former days, as did also

the steam breaking outfit, turning from eight to twelve furrows to which is

attached a pulverizer, leaving that which one minute before was unbroken

prairie, in fine condition for the seeder. It is impossible for us to make at

this writing a correct estimate of the amount of virgin prairie that has been

transformed into cultivated fields with growing crops since the first of April,

A. D. 1909, with the fifty-three of these steam and gasoline outfits, and the

many four and six horse teams that have not been idle and which had been

depended upon for all the breaking until within the last four years.



    We venture the opinion that seventy-five thousand acres is a very

conservative estimate. Seventy-five thousand acres of wheat and flax, more than

was produced last year, will go far in placing Faulk county in the front rank

among the oldest and most wealthy counties in the state.



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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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