. The New England magazine . new countryaccrue to their ultimate advantage, sosome things which in their first explora-tion seem to them too hard to utilize orof no intrinsic value often turn out to beminesof wealth, when the right intelligenceis brought to bear upon them. Probablythe earliest settlers of this valley neversuspected that the hard red stone crop-ping out in many places, and apparentlyspoiling their pastures, would some day bethe very thing that should chiefly con-tribute to make Sioux City the commer-cial entrepot of the Sioux Valley. Tne comparatively chalky stone ofterra-cotta
. The New England magazine . new countryaccrue to their ultimate advantage, sosome things which in their first explora-tion seem to them too hard to utilize orof no intrinsic value often turn out to beminesof wealth, when the right intelligenceis brought to bear upon them. Probablythe earliest settlers of this valley neversuspected that the hard red stone crop-ping out in many places, and apparentlyspoiling their pastures, would some day bethe very thing that should chiefly con-tribute to make Sioux City the commer-cial entrepot of the Sioux Valley. Tne comparatively chalky stone ofterra-cotta tint, which is found in theMinnesota region and from which the In-dians carve their pipes, undergoes a sur-prising transformation at the Dakota endof the bed, where it emerges in the shapeof almost pure quartzite or jasper, fortyper cent as hard as diamond, and in huea remarkable pink. At East Sioux Falls,this stone for the last half dozen yearshas been quarried with great success;and a visit to this place, which is reached. THE DAKOTA METROPOLIS. 355
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