The daily intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Territory [i.e. Wash.]) 1876-1881, 1879-09-10
DAKOTA.

The item, following. from late ex
changes, will give an idea Of progress
and present life in Dakota:
The frs. twenty five miles of the
Northern Pacific extension west of the
Missouri have been fully completed. A
thousand sections Of landare thus earned.
s Titus Of Sank Center, MINI ,
about the first Of September will open
. banking institution at Grand Forks
with a cash capital Of f15. 600.
The grading Oh the Northern Pacific
is two-thirds finished for seventy miles
wes. of Bismark, aud Contractor LIE May
has made q wager that the track will
be across Badger creek by the 10th of
September, thirty-eight miles out.
Marion Junction. the point on the
Chicago. Milwaukee and St. Paul road
where the branch diverges. named in
honor Of Supt. Merrill's daughter. is
four weeks old and already numbers
seventeen business houses. Trscklsy-
ing was finished at that place on the
18th.
Judge Bookering says the Milwaukee
company has agreed to build road
from Lennox Junction to Sioux Falls,
which is designed as an extension Of
the Yankton line. The Minnesota
Southern is also surveying line from
Flandreau to Sioux Falls.
The steam shovel west Of Canton,
near Geo. Williams. is attracting q
great deal Of attention. The company
have purchased six acres of gravel
land. and intend 10 gravel the track
twenty miles on each side of the PIT
There are four side tracks built and
boarding cars and boarding houses are
scattered around. making a small city
OF itself About 200 cars are loaded with
gravel day. and trains are running
back and forth every hour. Three en-
gines are kept in use all the time
Several Of the railroad men had
high old time at the junction town of
Marion. on tuesday night. About
forty Of them raided Llndermsnn' sa-
loon. stole cigars. beer, whiskey aud
about SO in money Bill Sullivan,
Mccall, Pat Sullivan and Brown were
the ringlesders. During the melee the
bartender was forced behind the bar.
with halfdozen revolvers staring him
in ths face Mccall shot through the
window from outside. the ball breaking
to atoms a glass in the hand Of the bar
keeper The mob threatened the life of
the barkeeper. and but for the assis.
tance of some of his friends he would
have doubtless been made to bite the
dust.
Twenty two hundred head OF cattle
from the Upper Yellowstone valley are
on their way to Bismarck. One de-
tachment Of 500 head is already within
a day or twO's march from Mandsn, and
another Of ZOO head has just started
from Fort keogh on their way across
the plains Formerly all the cattle
Of Montana were driven over the noun.
tains to the Union Pacific railroad be-
cause they could not cross the Missouri,
though some few herds have managed
to cross at points above and come down
to Bismarck on the east side. The
Northern Pacific having established
ferry, or transmit steamboat between
Mandan and Bismarck. the cattle Of
Montana can now find q much more
outlet 10 this direction. and
when the Northern Pacific reaches the
Yellowstone they will have all the cat
tie they can carry in the fall season.
Dell Rapids Exponent. 81: The
building material OF which the primi-
tive structions which still adorn many
Of the "clallns" in this vicinity were
built was hauled from Sioux City, a
distance of over hundred miles. At
that time railroad into this portion of
the Sioux valley Was looked upon as
very remote possibility. That the en-
suing five years would witness the com
pletion Of six distinct lines into the
valley was something beyond the limit
of their widest dreams. Such. how
ever. is the case. ard no predictions re-
garding further growth and develop
ment will be deemed extravagant. To
On observer appearances would indicate
that the era OF prosperity had just be-
gun. So far as Dell Rapids is concern
ed. We believe this TO be true