Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1880-06-25

BURLEIGH COUNTY,
river for it's accommodation. All this was
God send to Bismarck and give its
growth quite an impetus.
In the following year the failure Of Jay
Cook with the accompanying monetary
crisis and it's effects upon the prospects OF
the railroad, together with the unsettled
condition of the title to the land upon
which the city is situated operated in jur-
| iously to it's rapid growth, so that until
the spring Of 1877, when the titles were
settled and the monetary condition began
to improve, the growth of our city and
county was constant, gradual but compar-
atively slow. During the summer 1877,
the Sheridan House, the Raymond brick
block, the stage and transportation stables,
and many other valuable buildings were
erected IN Bismarck, and many valuable
farms made and occupied in the country.
This was the commencement of Bur-
leigh county boom which will be remem-
bered with pleasure by all it's original in
habitants, as long as one of them is left to
exult in the glorious future which certain
ly awaits her. From that time to the
present this boom has been accelerated,
aggregated and increased as an avalanch
in it's descent from the highest mountain
peak.
THE BOOM.
Prior to the commencement of this
boom, three years ago. it is safe to assert
that all the farm and garden product for
any one year in the whole county would
not exceed five thousand bushels, while
it is equally certain that our entire pro-
duct this year will reach over five hundr-
ed thousand bushels, and still our crop
will fall far short Of supplying our home
demand. To compensate for this deficit,
it is consolation to know that during
this summer alone, there will be broken
and prepared for next years cultivation,
more than twice as much land as has
been broken altogether before in the coun-
ty. This, next year will more than trip
pie our present crop and will intensity
the land boom.
Among the advantages ofBurleigh coun-
ty is it's favorable financial condition. No
county in any state can find more ready
market for it's bonds or better prices while
her county orders are at par and equivo-
lent to currency She has over one mill
ion, eight hundred thousand acres of as
good arabic lands as have ever been found
in one body in the United States, most Of
which is in market and much of which is
being occupied and improved with great
rapidity. All this with all unexception-
able climate must result in continual
ton of our countys good fortune and
eventuate in making the Corner Stone we
have just laid the converging point of the
most populous and wealthy city between
the Great Lakes and the Pacific Ocean.
PROF. WM. DENTON
the eminent geologlst and popular public
lecturer, who draws larger audience in
Boston, New York and other eastern
cities than any man who has ever spoken
in those cities on scientific subj bjects, being
present, was called; upon for a few re-
marks Referring to the scriptural quo.
tatlon, II was stranger and ye took me
in," he said in this case, Il am stranger
and you have called me out. have
travelled over much Of the globe, most Of
the way ON foot. I have spent some days
in Dakota, and have just returned from IL
trip to the Bad Lands, arriving last even
ing. came to determine for myself
WHICH OF THE TWO STORIES
l had heard III relation to your country
arc true. l have seen it stated that yours
is desert region. unfit for the habtation
of man: others informed me that it is the
garden of the world and l must say that
in all of my travels never have seen a
country so rich in all OF the elements tina
make men prosperous and happy AS | find
in Dakota In no country have l seen SO
large body Of good land, the very poor
est of which averages better than the best
in Massachusetts, Even the Bad Lands
are only bad because Of the supcrabund-
ancc of those elements which the poor
lands of other countries lack; and the
Bad Lands, so called will soon furnish
HAPPY HOMES FOR THOUSANDS
of prosperous people. Thousands of years
ago our ancestors occupied the high lands
of Central Asia. country having a soil
like this, formed by the decomposition
of the deposits OF the tertiary period In
some localities you will find soil. or
rather a succession of soils, from thirty
to forty feet deep, each remarkably pro-
ductive, and in the near future the plow
will be lald aside for an implement that
will cultivate the ground to adepth of
two feet or more, when your land
will stand any kind of dlOuth. He con-
trasted the boulders of this country with
those Of New England, and said if this
country was no
BETTER THAN NEW ENGLAND,
located as ii is, ltwould be a desert inf
deed AS the dark skinned barbarians o.
Europe and Asia were forced to retire be-
fore the light skinned races from the high
lands-the ancestors of the Greeks, the
Romans, the Latin and Celtic races-so
!! the dark skinned people of Amcrica are
forced 70 retire before the light skinned
people Of this county, giving place to