Bridge service between Pierre and Fort Pierre planned
Happenings in Counts and sue- items note an hourly service between Pierre and Fort Pierre to start next week. Other items include E L Senn starting the Pennington News at Underwood, Interior moving onto a town site, and rapid progress on the Pierre railroad bridge and new courthouse. A prairie fire in Sully county harms stock and forage, with herd petition activity in Lyanan county and saloon license rebates questioned by officials.
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Pierre
Fort Pierre
Pennington County
Board of County Commissioners
Sully
Blunt
Onida
New Pierre Extension Becomes Money Maker for Rail Line
Omerals of the Chicago and Northwestern praise the Pierre extension for outperforming earnings expectations. The 165 mile line cost over a dollar per mile to build with many bridges and forty seven river crossings in fifty miles. The country offers unmatched agricultural potential and grazing lands, attracting settlers and promising booming livestock traffic as development progresses.
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Sioux City
Chicago & Northwestern Railway Company
Pierre
Black Hills Trail Fencing Sparks Local Protest
Local residents object to fencing the historic Black Hills trail between Fort Pierre and Rapid City. Doane Robinson of the state historical society asked Washington for legal records on the 1876 trail laid out by Col. Fred Grant. The War Department replied that 80 far as.
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Black Hills
Fort Pierre
Rapid City
Doane Robinson
State Historical Society
War Department
Washington
Fred Grant
No Public Highway Record Found In State Department Trail
The article notes no formal state record establishing the trail as a public highway. Unless state legislative action occurs, the historic route may soon be fenced off as farmland, losing its status as early settlement evidence in Dakota.
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Dakota
Capital- Journal
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