Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1880-05-07
sURLEIGH COUNTY IND SURROUND
ING COUNTRY.
Inducements Offered to Immigrants---A
veritable Farmers Paradise---The
Finest Tract of Agricultural
Land In the Northwest.
BISMARCK AND SURROUNDINGS.

the Red River country, the berry plumpe
and brighter, and the head heavier. Th
prairies are more undulating, while tn
climate west of the divide between tn
James and Missouri rivers is milder. Durin
the severest weather the past winter the diff
ference was from 10 to 18 degrees in favo
of Bismarck. The official weather report q
St. Paul and Bismarck shows about six de
grees in favor of Bismarck. Crops are SOW,
or planted fully ten days earle
at Bismarck than on that portion of tn
Northern Pacific east of the divide, whil'
frosts do not appear for some days after the,
have come on that end of the line.
PECULIARLY ADAPTED TO CEREALS.
Wheat yields from IS to 40 bushels pei
acre, and oats from SO to IS bushels pei
acre. Corn planted on sod, turned over fo1
the first time last year, yielded 1O5 bushels
Of ears to the acre. In no country are fnel
vegetables grown. Two and three pound
potatoes are frequently produced, while the
yield is from $50 to 300 bushels per acre.
Parsnip roots, twenty-eight inches long
are common, as are also 20 ID. heads of cab.
bage; turnips and beets weighing from - to
l8 lbs. each. Watermelons, tomatoes, etc.
are grown successfully. During the p st eiz
years on the 4th of July
NEW POTATOES,
new peas, and other vegetables have been in
market from the gardens about
Bismarck. The farmers can do
no better than this in Northern Ohio or
Southern Michigan. Last year new pota-
toes and peas from Bismarck gardens were
in market June Is.
People often wonder why the climate be-
comes more favorable as they go west.
There is said to be warm current similar
to the gulf stream of the Atlantic, from the
coast of Japan which strikes our Pacific
coast above Van Couvers Island. This gives
to Alaska climate along the coast where
frosts never come. This warm atmosphere
covers the Pacific coast States aud Terrific
RES, and passes over the Rocky Mountains
through the lower points or passes well to
+, the north and follows down the Missouri
valley, giving to this section the advantage
Of climate noted above.
On the Pacific coast stock does not need
shelter except from the continuous rains
Of winter. In Montana and Northwestern
Dakota they need protection from the occa-
sional billiards., but may and do feed, live
and keep in good flesh without mouthful
Of food except that which they find on the
prairies or in the bottom and timber lands.
IMMENSE HERDS OF BUFFALO,
six and deer have lived on these plains for
ages, and wherever the buffalo flourish there
will be found the stockman's paradise.
such is the Upper Missouri and Yellowstone
regions.
The day has long since passed when Wes-
tern Dakota was rated as one vast desert,
and eur lands are to-day producing the
greatest returns for labor and money inves-
ted of any lands in the United States, and
are to day attracting greater attention than
any other. Our prairies only need to be
seen to be admired; investigation proves
their worth. In richness and depth of soil,
III timber and water,
BURLEIGH COUNTY
is behind no other. It is only behind Cass
and other counties in the Red River country
In development, because our people have been
Generally occupied in freighting to the Black
Hills and in connection with military expe-
litions, in filling wood, hay and other army
contracts, in steamboating, mining, ,eto.
Burleigh county has fully 10000 acres of
timber and has vast beds of coal, more fully
described elsewhere, and its farming inter
ssts looming up this year will fairly boom in
.na near future. -
PRESIDENT HAYES
and associates own farm of $40 acres, on
which 320 acres of wheat has been sown this
year,six miles north of Bismarck. Chas. NJ.
Cushman is manager of this farm.
THE STARK FARM,
three miles south of Bismarck, had $40 acres
Of oats on it last year which, though injured
by hail, yielded fifty odd bushels to the acre.
The Stark farm is operated by Messrs. Nc
Lean and Macnider, Bismarck, Dakota, and
has full set of farm buildings.
THR CLARK FARM
is situated seventeen miles east of Bismarck;
it consists of seven sections of land
of GAO acres each-4,4 ,48O acres-of which
hundred and fifty acres is now being sown
to wheat and $40 to oats. Nine hundred
acres more will be broken this year for
cropping next season. Forty head of fine
brood mares, recently purchased in the
Allegheny Mountains, have been put on the
farm; and blooded cattle will in due time be
added. The improvements on the farm con-
sist of the finest barn on the line Of
the Northern Pacific railroad, which
cost 81 600; good granary, carpenter and
blacksmith shop; and nine room dwelling
house is nearly hnished. The farm is sup
plied with q straw burning engine, sulky
blows; spring tooth harrows, etc.
The farm Is owned by Chas. J. CLARK, of
Pittsburgh, Pa, and managed by John ].
Steen, formally Of Pittsburgh,s but for the
past few years engaged in stock growing in
Colorado. Nr. ClSrk owns several large