The anti-monopolist. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1874-1878, 1877-05-24

wagon route from Bismarck to Dead
wood City is far better than any one
had an idea of.
While | was at Bismarck the first
return stages OF the Carpenter Il
Blakely line came in from DeadWood
City. Both passengers and drivers
were loud in their praise of the road.
nothing TO retard OF prevent a good
pace. and the journey from Bismarck
to Deadwood City is easily made
within sixty hours.
One Of the passengers by stage was
q young woman with q baby, SO
suppose 10 danger along the route IS
anticipated at present, yet | would
not be understood III saying this, as
Indirectly encouraging persons to go
| in quest of gold it is a demorallzlng
hunt at best, and for many IL will be
easier to get to the Hills than TO get
out OF them afterWard.
| But there is a matter / can advise
| on. with clear conscience, now that
! the season has arrived when health
and pleasure seekers will VISIT our
| beautiful State.
None OF those coming for health or
pleasure should miss paying visit to
| Gitche Ounce (Lake Snperior) the
] grand inland sea Of this continent.
TO be in st. PapI. within one nun
dred and fitv miles Of Lake Supe-
rior. and not to visit the latter would
be a calamity.
Travelling 10 Duluth, situated as the
head of the lake, by the Lake supe-
rior railroad. one has q full view OF
the Dalles Of the st. Louis river. and
hereis scenery worth many miles Jour-
ney to see.
Walled in by wooded hills, the swift
river rushes and tumbles over It's
rocky bed here it passes through a
deep. narrow defile that The tangled
vines look into, and anon. it sweeps
out into a straight stretch OF water
that the sun rays sport with, but IN
all the change Of scenery the river
passes thr0ugn,it remains rapid fierce
and foaming.
1t is calculated that there are four
billion feet o. logs still uncut, trlDu-
tarv to the st. Louis river.
No doubt it would cost a large sum
Of money to make the rapids nayigaAe
for logs, out five miles above the
, Northern Pacific junction, where the
good pine lands begin, the river is
, navieable. and Mr.. William Dunlap.
merchant at the junction and a gen
tleman we'll and personally known IN
, the business circles Of st. Paul, told
me that it was III contemplation to
build a railroad from the junction TIC
the falls five miles above, and thus
tap the pine lands and a very tine
/ water power besides.
, While at Duluth it was my gooc
fortune 10 witnSss d 'Nortbeaster or
the lake.
It is az old friend OF mine and al
} ways appears to me grand and insplr.
ing. Of course there Is q great dea
:, in the situation from which you con
template it. I was safely on shore
this last time.
/ Stirred up from their red sand,
! depths, on came the waters OF tn
lake in huge, taWny col
ored pillows and dashing against th'
D break-water IN the harbor, leaped III
S, in white plumed waves, to height 0
Q from fifty to sixty feet. giving TO tn
shore grand baptism OF freedom.
/ may be prejudiced in its favor, 10
| spent some happy years by III
! shores Of "Gitche Ounce but
Il scarcely think that there can be any
where else on all this wide continent
so invlgorating, life giving chmat
= as there is here during the summe
months. and while ENJOYING il on
Il can have at the Clark House, Duluth
! as good accommodation as can be Ia
iii any other hrst class hotel. Go
: Hull, the proprietor, furnished til
u house 4 low years ago at the cost
e $50 900 The bed rooms, the mos
f important part Of any houses are loft,
large and airvi Not the least attra
: tion Of the Clark House is the Colon
II himself, who can rival Mark Twain
,e d California story.
- The train. with a sleeping c0ae
attached. runs through from Dulut
to Bismarck III thirty-six hours. III
very fast, but the road IS safe an
good.
| found Bismarck very differel
from what it was on former vlsi
"A There are now : good class Of bus
ness men there and parties going
the Black Hills can get full QUIT
ne on reasonable terms.
Of course / called on IOi- l-oul
berry, of the Bismarck Tribune, IN
- found him in his normal state, socl
bright and busy.
On nv return trip I stopped over
few days at Fargo, on the Red rive
If The future prosperity OF this tow
is. ID my mind, certain for it has
s. magnificent agricultural country, IA
Id settlin. up, tributary 10 it. 1t is
Sc the heart Of the richest soil Of Il
o. valley of the Red river.
IS Ut Casselton, twenty miles west
" Fargo. is the large Cass farm. in whit
n Mr.. oliver Dalrympie is interested
* He has also farm on Goose river.
IN tributary of the Red river. Alt
ly gether his farming lands contain 81
IN 900 acres, and he has this year ind
ii wheat 1000. These are his own Il
W ures.
I'd But l was told that the farm
Gunden Bros, on Elm river. anoth
er tributary To the Red river. by col
rr ,aricor makes the DalrvmnlP far