NORTHERN SOUTH DAKOTA 

Why It Is Recommended by Charles Eygabroad, a Progressive Farmer and Official. 

Charles Eygabroad is one of the best known farmers and business men in the imperial county of Brown in the northern part of South Dakota. He was one of the advance guard which twenty years ago moved from Iowa to that part of the then frontier and started to make homes and build up settlements on the raw prairie. He has been an active participant in a wonderful development. All the pioneers know and respect him. 

For four years he served his county as auditor and made one of the best officials the west has known. He has added to his land holdings until he has a farm of 640 acres in the northern part of the county. He has been through all stages of farming and knowns that a system of diversification and dairying lead to complete success. he buys, sells and leases land not only in Brown county but in McPherson county, South Dakota and Dickey county, North Dakota. He is a practical farmer and dairyman and until his election as county auditor always resided upon and personally superintended the cultivation of his large farm. The state has no better authority on dairying and its possibilities than Mr. Eygabroad. 

Brown county is one of the best agricultural counties in the state. Its principal products are wheat, corn, oats, barley, flax, potatoes, cattle, horses, sheep and hogs, and its farmers are generally prosperous. It has three large railway systems entering into it and running in almost all directions. 

The county seat is permanently located at Aberdeen, a city of about 6,000 inhabitants, situated near the center of the county. There are 168 school houses in the county, and upwards of 200 public schools are taught. There are sixty-five grain elevators and warehouses, and twenty-one cities and villages in the county, and also twenty-one railroad stations. 

Over a million dollars will be expended in 1903 for buildings and public improvements in Aberdeen. The following are among those already planned; a part of them commenced: 

One hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars for the federal building, the contract let and excavating completed; 

$100,000 for the courthouse, the side walls having been laid and the steel as far as the second story in its place; 

$90,000, estimated, cost of the Hatz block, excavating and basement walls completed; 

$75,000 for the Jewett wholesale building; 

$30,000 for the Milwaukee station; 

$45,000 for dormitory for Northern normal and industrial school; 

$35,000 for extension of the Ringrose block; 

$20,000 for addition to the Jackson wholesale building; 

$15,000 for Hub City cold storage plant; 

$25,000 addition to the high school; 

$70,000 for a new gas and electric light plant; 

$12,000 by B. B. Ward for a three-story brick building on Main street; 

$40,000 for a block on Main street for the Olwin-Angel Dry Goods company; 

$10,000 for extension of News Printing company’s block; 

$10,000 brick livery and sales stable by Smith Bros. 

Farming in this desirable section of the west is no longer an experiment. Fortunes are being made in cattle and sheep and land values are increasing with every season. The time to invest is today. The region is a frontier no longer. The railway facilities and church, school and social advantages are as good as in the east. 

Prices of land handled by Mr. Eygabroad range from $6 to $40 an acre, corresponding with location and improvements. His terms are from one-third to one-half down, the balance on easy payments at a low rate of interest. 

Source: The Minneapolis Journal, Fri., April 3, 1903 - page 25