Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1879-10-24
AN IMMENSE INSTITUTION.
THE BISM4RCK MILLS YEARLY
READY FOR BUSINESS. as

What Mr.. Bennett is Doing for the
Farming Interest Of this Section
The Largest Enterprise Of the
| Kind in the Territory What
Southern Dakota Thinks.
| READY FOR BUSINESS.
The Bismarck FIGURING Mills will be
in running operation IN about three
weeks. Nothing short Of a visit can con
vince the farmers of the extensiveness of
the enterprise. The largest and best mill
IN Dakota is quite a feather in Bismarck s
cap. Fargo with all her enterprise and
wheat has but poor excuse for -four
ing mill Mr.. Bennett is a wide-awake
enterprising sort of a man and sees fu-
ture for Bismarck. This year he will get
most of his grain from Fargo, but next
year he has no doubt but that wheat
enough will be raised in this vicinity to
keep his mill-six run of stone busy. He
is practical farmer and has examined
closely, the land around this city, pro-
nouncing it ahead Of anything he has
ever seen for wheat This year there
were nerly 100000 bushels Of potatoes
raised in Bhrleigh County, Next year
potatoes will take back seat and wheat
will come to the front. Next spring
& A LARGE ELEVATOR
will be built adjoining the mill with 4
capacity of nearly 100000 bushels. Bis
marck will need more extensive elevators
than towns further east for the reason
that the land is divided into small farms.
A demand for flour from the far north
west will cause the wheat to be ground
here and instead of shipping to Duluth
by the car load as is the custom Of
the extensive Red River farmers it
will be stored in elevators to be ground
BURLEIGH COUNTY LANDS
have, as vet, been but poorly advertised
by the land department of the Northern
Pacific railroad. The company wishes to
settle up the Red and Jim river valleys
first. The best government land can be
obtained within six miles of Bismarck.
Government surveys have also been kept
back, much to the detriment of settlin g
| UP the country. The merchants during
the past month have enjoyed an astonish-
ingly large trade. Every hotel has been
filled with people and the Sheridan
House has been SO crowded that the peo-
pie have actually been turned away for
lack of sleeping apartments
| @G q AS OTHERS SEE US.
The Canton Adpocftte published in the
southern part Of the Territory, in speak
/ ing of the EDITORS recent visit to this sec
tion, says: Bismarck has been truth
fully described at times in its able jour.
nal, The TRIBUNE, and in the Pioneer
Press The city itselfis almost a marvel,
built as if by magic upon as fine a loca-
ton as the Missouri valley can furnish,
far ahead of the immense country sur
rounding it, and when such atown can be
| and has been sustained, with its man.
moth hotels, blocks CT stores, capacious
warehouses and tasty residences, with
out scarcely an improved farm in sight,
what will he the future when the 2,S00,-
600 acres of fertile lands OF Burleigh Co.,
embraced within its 1873 townships, are
utilized by the sturdy yeomanry that time
will bring within the boarders. And be-
yond where a year ago without al escort
w WdS COuSlQCl OSILl SCICuo CAC 4\OIG IL
Pacific is extending as fast as money
and men can construct. laG
We must confess our views ofthe N Orth-
ern Pacific roaG and the country it trav-
erses. after personal inspection are far
different from the impressions we had re
ceived. It is natural for one to extol the
beauties, and to become attached to the
locality where his interests are, and slow
to recognize the merits of other portions
its equal and often a superior. But we
should not be blind to facts when dis
closed.E jz hl
Iftlat isthe ':frozen belt' and hence
the aversion, then give us some OF it down
here in this latitude.
These facts are not stated to initiate
against our own locality,i but in truth
Of what We were as much surprised to
learn as others are who have not seen for
themselves. It is proud fact for Da-
! kotaian 10 bcabie to truthfully assert that
there are millions ofIacres 0f such lands
within our Territorial borders waiting for
the culture by the thousands that the tide.
of immigration is bearing this way. None
of the unsettled portion of the Northwest
has more hattering prospects than this
which has been sosuddenly brought into
prominence by the construction ofthc
Northern Pacific, and the succe ssful tests
it's surrounding lands have bee subjected
to-" s,sj I'd; .9g
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