Bismarck tri-weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1875-1881, 1877-09-28
THE NORTHERN PACIFIC.

xCS Compx0C1On q N8C10u&1 ~ necessity,
Even at the Nations Expense-The
Country and Crops on its Line--Ad-
vantages offered Settlers-Large
Farms and Fortunes Already Made
--Comparisons With California,
Arizona Wyoming, Utah, etc.
We take the following extracts from a
to the Philadelphia In
quirer, dated at Glyndon, Mimi, Sept.
Ist:
'tThe present season has very fully ex-
hibited the character of the country ira
versed by the Northern Pacific. Per-
haps happier people cannot be found
than the plucky settlers who, IN the face
OF much croaking, came to this North
western country two, three and four years
ago, and made their rude homes on the
unturned prairie. The crops they have
raised this year, coupled with the fair
prices realized, have solved the problem,
if one ever existed, as to the productive
ness Of what may be called the Northern
Pacific belt in Minnesota and Dakota.
This single crop has placed in easy
circumstances nearly every farmer who
was fortunate enough to have in a con-
points the reports are the samoan enor-
nous yield of the best quality of gram;
crops other than wheat are equally good
oats, rye, potatoes, etc. Hundreds of
farmers who had taken up government
homesteads adjacent to the railroad, or
purchased lands from the company, find
themselves this year realizing net prof.
it of SIS to $40 per acre on every acre de-
voted to wheat.
This section will soon rival California
in the matter Of great wheat farms"
Speaking of the Dalrymple farms, he
says:
ssIt is the intention, 1 learn, of the
two above named farms to break addi-
tionai sod land at the rate of 5000 acres
per year until the entire $1,000 acres
shall be in grain. The two farms will
then yield over million bushels annu-
ally. While dealing with statistics may
as we'll add that Mr.. Dalrymple's crop
alone will this year require FIVE hundred
box cars or thirty-three extra trains of fif-
teen cars each to carry it over the Nor
thern Pacific to the lake."
Speaking generally, he adds:
81 have said that settlers here are not
only content, but happy over present re-
suits and prospects. Grasshoppers have
not made their appearance the present
season, and am satisfied that they will
not seriously trouble this region. This is
not within the grasshopper belt. There
is abundant room and a hearty welcome
among us tor tens of thousands of honest
and industrious settlers who are willing
to work hard, live frugally and throw
beer and wbiskey to the dogs. ANY 9TH
er sort may as we'll remain where they
are, for, with laziness and drink, pauper-
ism awaits them wherever they go. There
are railroad lands Of COED quality still to
be had in exchange for the company's
preferred stock; there are government
lands Of equally COED quality, but some
what further from the road, to be had as
free homesteads-and the climate is one
of the healthiest on the globe.
In a somewhat extended trip of obser-
vation during the past year from North
ern Montana along our western frontier
to Northern Arizona, through the richly
cultivated valleys Of the Mormans in
and Utah and the large grain
fields and orange groves Of Southern Cal
ifornia, I have not seen any country that,
all things considered, offers as great in
ducements to the farmer Of very small
means, who desires to obtain 16o-acre
farm from Uncle Sam, or to the man pos
sessing moderate capital, as Northern
Minnesota or Eastern Dakota adjacent to
the Northern Pacific railway.
While I have not one dollars interest
in the Northern Pacific, and never expect
to have, I believe the country will, at no
distant day discover that the c:ippling OF
that enterprise, resulting in the delaying
its completion, was most serious mister
tune to the whole nation. The bloody,
costly. and, thus far, scarcely successful
Indian wars which the government has
been compelled to wage for three Success
sive seasons along the very belt of coun-
try traversed by the surveyed route OF
the road in question ought to be enough
TO convince the most hide Bound critic
that railway completed through the
northern belt of Territories; even if done
at The nations expense, would be the best
possible investment in the interest both
Of economy and of humanity. The loco
motive is a cheaper and more, effective
civilizer and peacemaker than infantry,
cavalry and artillery, as witness the COM
plete safety and order prevailing through
out belt six hundred miles wide along
the Union and Centra! Pacific roads.
With railroad through Montana and
Northern Idaho troops can be removed
to and from that region; without such
railroad the people and the property in
that valuable section of country cannot
be protected, except by an increase of
troops beyond the present Strength ofour
army. Chief Joseph and Sitting. Bull
have done what abler men had failed to
have rendered 1t absolutely GER
ain that a Northern Pacific railroad is
necessity n.
The St. Paul Dispatch expresses the
belief that with the capture or Lewis the
asst mail robber operating on III: line 81
he North Pacific has tumbled. This fell
ow was so industrious that as hi 5h as6o