Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1881-09-02
What a Philadelphia Man Thinks Of
the Country Along the
North Pacific.
He Writes Home to tho Press Glow
ing Description of Dakota
Towns.
-Astonished at the Rapid Growth and
Prosperity Of the Great
Northwest.
He Observes that Bismarck is the Live
iest City of its Size in
the Country.
How 1t Looks to a Stranger.

How 1t Looks to a Stranger.
Special Correspondence Phi1adelphia Press:
BISMARCK, D. T., Aug. pa arrived
here today and am now enabled to give
you an account IF the greatest country
the sun ever shown upon, great not only
in its extent, but also in the vastness of its
resources and the fertility of its soil which
produces everything that can be grown in
the temperate zone, and which in the
quality Of its wheat and the quantity it
produces to the acre cannot be equalled
in the United States. Its great water
courses furnish the power that moves the
greatest mills in the world, and last, but
not least, the enterprise and go-aheada-
tiveness of the people, who are continually
planning, working and moving to develop
the resources of this splendid country,
which together with the cordiality and
uniform courtesy with which the stranger
is met on every side combine to make it
the most profitable as we'll as delightful
portion of the country to live in. I have
travelled fourteen years and supposed l
had seen the west in all its greatness, but
never until now had the least concep-
tion of country so grand.
MY TRIP TO ST. PAUL
from the point at which I stopped last
was an uneventful one, and I arrived in
the confines of the great Empire of the
New Northwest tired, hungry and dusty.
Having registe,e ed at the Merchants was
soon made comfortable both as to the
inner and outer man, and after proper in
terval of rest went to work. You don't,
of course, need description OF the situ-
alton of St. Paul, at the head of navigation
on the Mississippi river, but to describe
fully the progress the city has made with
in few years, though interesting could
hardly be computed, its busy streets, the
principal one of which looks like our
Chestnut street during business hours, to-
gether with all the metropolitan sights
and scenes and other and newer methods,
modes and fashions combine to form a
novel and most pleasing sensation. The
city has grown immensely during the last
tew years, but has hardly kept pace with
Minneapolis, which is no doubt the largest
and by far the most enteresting city, owing
to the water power of the latter, and the
fact that great deal of St. Paul capital
is
INVESTED IN MINNEAPOLIS.
This latter city is eight miles from st.
Paul further up the river and from a
town of $4,000 inhabitants of a few years
ago, has grown to the proportions of one
Of $4,000. 1t has the largest -four mill in
the world, which daily turns out and
ships 4,300 barrels of flour, it's saw mills
are almost without number and the value
of its manufacturing interests generally
is almost beyond calculation. No one
could believe without seeing it, the won
derful progress the city is making to be
one of the most powerful and yichest in
our land. Some idea may be formed of
how it is done here when I tell you that
this year alone there are in process of
erection 1900 dwelling houses in addi-
tion to $50 brick stores and 80 frames
The country between Minneapolis and
this point not only along the line Of the
roads, but in the interior, is filled witk
heurishing towns and villages, containing
an industrious and enterprising people
who are both hospitable and refined.
I might name many places at interest
en- route, but space torbids a notice of
any but the most prominent.
FARGO. tr. algg.
The end of division of the Northern
Pacific Railroad is known as the metrop-
oils of the golden belt It is situated on
the Red River, and is the natural centre
of one of the most fertile agricultural
counties on the globe. It is this valley
that produces the finest grade of wheat
known, the No. I hard, from which the
fancy brands of flour are made, and