Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1879-08-25
BISMARCK.
What the City and Surrounding Country
Dire Doing.

What the City and Surrounding Country
Dire Doing.
BISMARCK, D. T., Aug. 17.--As is the uni
versal verdict of those who visit this city,
Bismarc is more metropolitan in it's appear
ance and aspirations than any eastern city
of three or four times it's size. One is i'm
pressed with this idea upon alghting from the
train, as he is confronted with hotel runners
as impetuous and as hard to escape as those
of St. Paul or Chicago. Each sets forth the
advantages of the house he represents in the
most words and shortest time possible, at
the same time showing willingness to help
the traveller by "grappling'' his valise and
leading him by the coal tail.
Here also are $4,000 hacks and
numerous "city drays" of cosmo politan
design. At twilight the streets are thronged
with fast horses, in which respect the city is
becoming quite notorious. Performances
every night at the Opera House, also tend to
make city in fact as we'll as fancy.
Mandan, over the river, is, as yet, scarcely
up to the glowing prospects of few of its
pioneers. 1t cannot possibly amount to
much this season. The frequency of saloon
tents out on the extension vanlshes all hopes
Mandan saloon keepers may have had of
GLORIOUS time with the boys" once or twice
week. The fact is the
laborers have nothing to come in for, as the
supply store is kept well to the front, it now
being at the head Of Curlew valley.
Trains are now running west of the Mis-
souri, river on the Northern Pacific, twenty
three miles, and will by the last of this week
reach point known as the Coal Banks,
quite little town. Grading is over
three fourths finished out seventy. five miles,
and the Keith locating party are out about
14O miles, near Pyramid Park, or the Bad
Lands of the Little Missouri.
Bly's coal bank, ssBaby Mine,''.is out about
forty miles, and as soon as his cars and
mining apparatus comes, the practcability
of shipping this Ignite coal will be thorough
~ tested. Mr.. BLY, expects to lay coal down
about four feet thick, and indicates
better quality of coal further
in. 1t is almost free from earthly substances,
but is surrounded by reddish clay, which,
when burned, makes the hardest kind of fire
brick. Seven men are now at work, and
blacksmith shop is already in operation.
The mammoth transfer boat made its first
trip to Mandan Thursday, having on Elk
loaded cars. She makes six trips day, and
will soon clear the vast amount of extension
supplies now on this side. The river is very
low, but this huge sidewheeler passes to and
fro where ordinary boats drawing two and
three feet of water would stick on sand bar.
A locating party in charge of W. G.
Wetherill, left on the Josephine, Thursday,
drawing three and half feet of water.
She is destined for a point on the Yellow
stone where the road will cross and the en-
cheering corps will survey the line this way
to meet the party going west. They think
they will meet before snow flies, but tho
probabilities are that their boat will encoun-
ter many bars on her way-and those to, of
sandy kind and not the fascinating walnut
that will delay their prospects.
Mr.. Bly,, of the Sheridan house, who, with
the use of lighted match in his gas house,
attempted to discover the cause of 'sno sup
ply" is now thoroughly convinced that
where there is light there must be some fire.
He will be out again in few days, which is
more than can be said of his hair and beard.
Harvesting is nearly finished, and
in some instances astonish-
ing results are realized. Frank
Donnelly, three miles from this city, expert
mented with three bushels of oats on an acre
and quarter Of ground. From this he har
vested 1901 bushels of fine oats. Never be-
fore has the practicability of farming in
Dakota been SO clearly demonstrated as the
present season, and yet how small is the pro-
portion of acreage under cultivation. Next
year look out for q great tide of emigration
to the land of the Big Muddy.
BI~HARCK.