Bismarck tribune., 1881-10-14

eroded rocks in the world, and the sigh
is novel and interesting. There is scarcely
a form in architecture or statuary that
will not find "a semblance here. The
rock is of carboniferous appearances
frlable, and has been wrought by the ele
ments into Thousands of forms-soms re.
sembling infants, others giants, aud others
still churches and castles, as large and
az grandly pinnacled as the Milan cathe.
dral.
THE FOSSILS AND PKTRIFATIONs.
In the ravinss are found some very re-
markable petritactions, which indicate
that before the great subterrancan fire
these praires wore covered with an ina
mense growth of timber. Petrifed logs
and stumps are found in most wonder
full state of preservation, the bark being
plainly indicated, and the rings indicating
the periods of growth. Fossils are very
plenty, and some very curious ones have
been found. A specimen has been shswn
that is claimed to be the amputated foot
of child; and the features, if one may
spcal: of the features of a foot, are as
natural as If they had been nodded in
bronze. A human ear is also shown to
the credulous, and after some trouble I
found man who was willing to state that
he had seen
4 FOsSILIZkD WHEELBARR0W.
Twill not give his ams, out Of regard for
his large and interesting family.
The clay here is very fine, both for
bricks and pottery. The gullies are full
of burned clay, and some of them look
like deserted brick-yards. Samples of
the clay have been sent to Trenton, N. j..
and the experts in pottery there declare it
te be of most excellent character. ....
: Thus nature, in her thoughtfulnoss, has
provided the future denizens Of this region
with both fuel and building material un-
der It's soil:in place of the timber with
which other lands are blessed. 9&@ ~
l do 40, think this will ever be q great
agricultural country, although the land is
good; but it is perfect paradise for the
stock grower. Grain grows in tho valleys
with great fertility, as it does all along
the line; oats grow well, yielding from so
to 80 bushels per acre barley yields from
40 to so bushels, corn from IS to 80 bush.
els, and potatses are cultivated with great
SUCCESS. Oats arc very profitable, and are
raised in large quantities, especially in
the vicinity Of the Missouri River, the
demand for them at the military pests in
the Northwest being very great. The
barley raised on the line of the railroad is
of superior quality, and always commands
a higher price than that grown further
south. Corn produces pientifully, and is
only on very rare occasions injured by
frost. Many farmers make corn their first
years crop, planting it on the sod.
BUT STOCK RAISING IS THE BUSINESS
to be undertaken if one wants great
profits. The country is especially adapted
to sheep also, and the great, broad
platsaus seem to have been especially cre-
atod for them, for the hoof1ot and other
ills that sheep are heir to never come.
The stock is never housed, and during
tho past exceptional winter, when the
herds further south were starved out, the
losses in Dakota and Montana were very
slight. The bunch, grass is said to be
equal if not superior to the blue grass of
Kentucky, and the beef and mutton
raised upon it arc of very superior
quality. The Montana wool brings higher
prices than that from the territories south
and east of it, and ewing to the dry atmes-
phere, perfect drainage, and clear, gravelly
streams, there is seldom any disease
among sheep, 80 that profits in sheep
raising reach the maximum here. Many
wealthy gentlemen from eastern cities are
going into stock raising as :".
AHEALTIIY AND PROFITABLE PAsTIME.
and they say that in this country it has
extraordinary fascinatiens to one who
has lived in crowded cities. One New
York gentleman took rarchs up
Tongue river last fall, and spent the win
ter there, 50 he could know what it was
He was SO pleased with the climate that
| he went back east last spring, wound up
his affairs, and brought two friends with
him.
Ihe climate is delightful, the water is
generally pure, the malaria is never
known, and what is better than all, that
obstacle to the settlement of new coun