The new North-west. [volume] (Deer Lodge, Mont.) 1869-1897, 1882-04-21
couLSoN, MONTANA.
A Scheme for Making this New Town the
Center OF Western Civilization.
Bismarck Tribune.

Bismarck Tribune.
From time TO time the Tribune has taken
occasion to publish considerable news re-
garding the Yellowstone valley, Clarks
Fork, and the Maginnis country, in Montana,
into which the Northern Pacific railroad Is
now making its way. Forsome time the new
town of Coulson has been talked of as the
coming metropolis of the whole country, and
now that fact Is assured. Mr.. Herman Clark,
well known as one of the most energetic and
extensive contractors on the Northern Pa
cifc, arrived in Bismarck last evening. He
and his New York associates, all large capi-
talists, have purchased the whole valley trib-
utary to the townsite of Coulson, as we'll as
the townsite itself. This huge tract of land
comprises sixty thousand acres of railroad
land, or strip five miles wide and thirty
long. The plan is to people the valley i'm
mediately, and for the purpose of accom-
plishing this, special inducements will be Of
fered settlers Of the right kind. The pro-
prletors have already arranged for one hun
| dred families from Wisconsin to go out.
Fifty or sixty of the men, the heads of some
of these families, will 60 out to Coulson in
about ten days as pioneers. These, in due
time, will be followed by the remainder.
The land is very rich and the soil deep. A
canal for irrigating purposes is to be built
through the entire tract, and by the terms
of the contract with the Northern Pacific,
must have an average depth of running wa
ter of fourteen inches. This will make a
veritable paradise for farmers, as every foot
of the land can be irrigated at just the
proper time, and the crops that may be ex-
pected from this section will surprise the
most sanguine Montanian. The country is
mostly prairie, with some pine etimber. The
Clark's Fork river runs into the Yellowstone
from the south. There is no end to the sup,
ply of fuel to be found in the region of this
river.
From Coulson is projected q railroad to
Benton, and this point will be the shipping
point for the great her ders of Montana, as II
is the junction of four great grazing valleys
Tributary to Coulson is a great mineral
country. The Great Republic gold mine !.
located there. This was sold short time
ago for $4,000, and is the mine that Jay
Cooke, in his palmy days, was interested in
An immense network of mineral deposit!
are cropping out all over the country every
where in that vicinity, and great man!
people are swarming into the country from
all directions, especially from the Blacl
Hills and Miles City. In northerly direc
tion the mineral deposits are abundant ant
the grazing is splendid.
} The townsite scheme is an enormous one
} The proprietors, it is stated, have a very nea
t arrangement with the railroad company
, whereby the latter Is to make extensive i'm
provements-build large round-heuses, re
pair shops, etc. 1t Is the end Of the Yellow
: stone division, and one hundred acres in tn
b town have been set aside for the use Of tn
o company. Coulson will become great dis
n tributing point and undoubtedly be by al
odds the largest city in the Yellowston
valley. 1t is far enough west of Blsmarc
r to becone such, and its enterprising owner
:, are men with almost unlimited means, whic
: they propose to use to good advantage
both the people who settle in the valley an
themselves. --