Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1879-02-08
BURlEIGH' S BOOMING BUSlHESS
ADVANTAGES OFFERED ENER-
s. s GETIC IMMIGRANTS. l

rem undinRs...Climatic Pecul1nFtt1eB
and Richness Of The Progress
Of the Northern Pacific and Its Ef-
fect Upon BlsnArek's Future.
So many are inquiring just now in rela-
ton to Bismarck and its surroundings that
The TRIBUNE has collated the facts which
follow with view to answering the nu-
merous questions which have been raised.
From the Fargo Times we extract the fol-
lowing in relation to n gSs nan Et9i
B1xAARCK AND BURLEIaH COUNTY:
bismarck, the county seat, is town Of
about $500 people, has eight hotels, one
of them by all odds the largest III the Ter
ritorJ, costing about &5O,000, nine dealers
in general merchandise, six in clothing
and gents furnishing goods, two hard.
ware stores, furniture, drug, wholesale
liquor, flour and feed dealers, lumber
yards, bakeries, livery stables, and tie
usual supply Of wagon and blacksmith
shops, saloons, etc, and one newspaper,
The BISMARCK TRIBUNE. The pubic
schools are graded and the Bcnedictine
Sisters have al academy in successful .Op.
Grafton. The Catholics and Presbyterians
have built churches, and the Episcopalians
and Iethodists have resident pastors and
sre preparing to build. t a
The city is situated on the North Paci
fic crossing Of the Missouri River, on the
east bank Of the river, and Is the head
quarters for six lines of steamboats, running
2 in connection with the North Pacific rail-
road to al points on the Upper Missouri
and Yellowstone rivers. The Missouri has
1900 miles of navigable waters above Bis
marck, terminating at Fort Benton. and
the Yellowstone $50 to 800, terminating at
Fort Keogh. Steamboats, lun up the Big
Horn, also, from that point to Fort Custer.
q sata STEAMBOAT 11NIs ,,.2.g.+ '7Ss - 80
The lines arc the Coulson, Kountz. Ba-
ker, Benton Charles, Bachelor and Eclipse,
in Ill fOrty-twO boats. Two steam ferries
connect Bismarck with the west side, Of
the Missouri. Stages run daily from Bis
marck to Deadwood, s24O miles distant,
and tri.wcekly between Bisruarckand F.
!, Buford, Bismarck and Standing Rock, and
Bismarck and Fort Keogh.,G Over one
thousand teams are now engaged in freight
\ ing between BismarcK and the Black Hills
= and - Large risambcr between Bismarck
and other frontier posts. s;fit Ea
The country aoout Bismarck is rolling.
pra:rie, with liberal amount of timber
skirting the Missouri River and other
streams emptying into it, The soil is very
, rich, and grain Of all kinds, as well as
vegetables, is successfully raised. The
country IS settling rapidly and settlements
= now extend west of the Missouri twenty
miles, and up and down the river fifteen
or twenty miles. The government laad is
being rapidly taken by ~s.5a. ~ .rI 'ts.rs..
- r-e. Ifg gsrl. f-S. 81 3 IT,.
HOMESTEAD AND PRE- EMPTION CLAIMANTS,
and several thousand acres have been bro
kea on railroad land on the line of the
Northern Pacific near Bismarck during
the past season. The farm of Geo. Stark,
near Bismarck, yielded this summer about
65 bushels IF oats per acre, 80 lbs per bush
e], from 32O acres, and the entire crop sold
at an average Of sixty cents per bushel,
yielding, as will be seen, a handsome re-
turn. 7'e 5ats &z0@'
No wheat has as yet been grown for
market. because there has been local de-
mand fer oats, instead, at from 60 cents 10
1926 per bushe, but the soil has bsen
thoroughly tested and next season wheat
culture will begin in this region of the
county in earnest. s.afes.l7 aasa !. n ~.
The CLIMATE il about the same as that of
southern Minnesota. On Thanksgiving
day, last year, farmers were plowing, and
one small patch Of potatoes was then bar
vested and bot few potatoes were found to
have been frosted The snow fall in the
Missouri river basin is light, and in this
region there is 27 ~. t5H@.s Pc ds55q@
BUT LITTLE sLEIGHlEG IN WINTER,
i but the rainfall during April, May and
June, just when the rain is needed,,is
abundant, averaging not less than II inch
cs. Wheat and oats may be sown in April
and corn planted in May, New potatoes,
.peas, cabbage etc, grown in open ground
without the aid of hot bells, are always
found in marketa as early as July 4th. The
grass natures before frost and remains in
the condition of hay, aaorling food for
stock during the entire winter. J 80
The season in this region is from three
20 four weeks longer than in the Red
river country, 200 miles east Crops may
he put in ut least two weeks earlier and
frosts hold off longer in Autumn. Corn
has been successfully raised ut the Indian
the Berthold agency this year producing
over 5000 bushels. Corn that will mature
in New England will surely mature here.
No finer vegetables are raised in any coun-
,ry. Satisfactory returns have been had
from ground broken in the spring and
planted to miscellaneous crops the same
season.
Burleigh county offers excellent oppor-
tunitles for parties wanting railroad. gov.
srnment or partially improved lands for
agricultural purposes, for they are all that
can be desired for general agriculture and
are superior to much of The land in the
west for stock culturs. There is. and will
7 - for years, y 7i -..ss:..' !. IS. !.
GOOD LOCAL NARKET, ~ -y.sar}s
Aad the Great Lakes will always be readily
reached, thus giving to the whole North.
"A Pacific ceuAtry better wheas nsrks y! q; e