Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1875-1878, 1878-08-07
1n Excursion.

Mr. Sargent the manager Of the Northern Pa
c!tic has arranged to give q small party Of Chicu
90 and Milwaukee editors. and few other gen
t!emen from those places and st. Paul aud Mime
apolis-some dftcen or twenty in ala ride owe
the Northern Pacific and view Of the. fine coun
try aiorg lis line. and Of the magnificent whea
fields Of the Red River valley and Northern Da
knta. Measrs Joseph Medill OF the Chicago Tri
bune: A. MattcEOn. Of the Times; Lieut.. Gov
strong, Of the Inter-Occan; n. X. Fairbanks, the
president Of the Chicago board Of trade; Murray
Nelson. a director OF ft6ut body Hon. Alex. Mitch
| ell, president of the Milwankes s. St. Paul: the
president Of the Milwaukee board Of trade, and
the ed. tors Of the Milwaukee papers. and a few
gentlemen from st. Paul and Minneapolis, will
morning, will stop over at Fargo long enough to
take u plunge into the golden sens Of wheat, and
advancing en- echeion to the slaughter Of the tall
| grain. and then to Bismarck and bacE home by
! Thurday evening Pioneer Press.
These cxcursionists will arrive at Bis
marck today. The journalists accompany
ing the party will, no doubt, begin to re-
alize the importance of the great North
west-will begin toreallze that a vast trade
is beginning to be developed in this region
more important to Milwaukee and Chica-
go than the entire trade OF Minnesota and
Wisconsin has been. In its infancy now
it will make rapid strides.
Think, gentlemen, of the three million
bushels of wheat produced this year on
the North Pacific where even five years
ago not enough was produced to supply
the local demand.
Think of the thousands of Montann cat
tie, the finest beef in the world, now seek
ing an eastern market.
Think of the millions of pounds ofwool
now offered for sale in Montana, produced
in cold climate, yet where animals feed
and grow fat on the prairics during the
entire winter.
Think of the mineral wealth that is just
beginning to be developed in the Black
Hi!ls in the Little Rockies, and in the
mountains of Montana
The party will surely be struck with the
crops in the Red River valley. They will
find no land to condemn as.tllcy push west
ward to the Missouri. Two hundred miles
further west, were they to make the trip,
they would strike the valley of the Vel
lowstone. Between here and there they
would find only five miles of bad lands.
The balance Of the way rolling prairies
and rich mcadows-evcry foot of the way
good farming land. They would find in
the valley of the Yellowstone grass which
could be tied over the backs of their horses,
and hundreds of settlers in the vicinity of
the Custer battle ground, even.
Beyond the Yellowstone they would find
the we'll settled and productive valleys of
Montana; beyond a still better climate;
still deeper and more productive soil.
Well not speak Of the country still
northwest Of that, but venture the asser-
ton that twenty million people will find
homes in a country north and west of Da-
kota within the next thirty years.
St. Paul vii! number its hundred thous-
and people or morpand if Chicago and
Milwaukee 10 not continue to prosper it
will be because they were blind to the
advantages that lay within their reach.