The Wheeling daily intelligencer. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1865-1903, 1883-08-20

Ill tilr SuIO NhNeSs alllOuSu Alo SuL
was getting in his work to good advantage
when We were all up, yet there was 9
breeziness about the air that reminded ui
that we we're well set towards the region o.
the Manitoba wave.
At the crossing OF Red river we found
another case Of st. Paul and Minneapolis
on O small scale, in the rivalry Of More
head, on the Minnesota side and Fargo on
the Dakota side OF the river. 1t seems
however, 10 be an uneven rivalry, and nc
one doubts that Fargo, with her 10000 in.
habitanls, Is now, and in the future still
more to be, the metropolis o[ the Red
River Valley.
! noticed that very many people who
thronged the depot at Fargo to see the edi'
torial train were clad in their overcoats,
and this at o'clock in the morning ot, the
third day Of August. Observations were
frequent by our party to the effect that this
must be q cold country in the winter, but
every such observation was invariably
parried by the remark that I'VE don't feel
the cold here at 250 below as you do in the
States at l0' above. --- .. ...
One Of the old inhabitants OF Fargo (Yet
young mani Mir. n. X. Hubbsrd-a resi-.
dent Of thirteen years-got on the train and
rode with US as far as Cassellton Station, in
and around which are the Dalrympe bo'
nanza wheat farms, famous the country over
for their extent, for their yield Of grain, and
for the rapidly with which the crop is har.
vested when ripe and then threshed and
shipped TO market. Dalrymple is shrewd
man. Only few years ago he was poor,
but is now quite rich. When the railroad
was built TO Fargo and laid out on through
to the West he induced capitalists to invest
in these lands he now owns at Sl.95 per
acre, on an agreement on their part that
whenever he would make and expeud in
Improvements on them S. per acre they
would divide their holdings with him, On
the strength Of this agreementhe went to
work (they furnishing capitaD and organ
ICED "oonanza" farming, dividing thea areas
OF land into large farms, each under charge
OF foreman, himself captain over all, and
by means OF machinery raising wheat BY
the 10000 acres at a net profit OF 50 cents
per bushel, averaging yield ol 20 bushels
per acre, thus clearing in single season as
higa as $40 per acre, which enabled him to
pay back principal and interest OF the al.
vances, and speedily gave him in his own
right an immense amount OF land.
Dalrymple's success begat contagion
in the Northwest for bonanza farming,
hence bonanza farms are innumerable in
Dakota, aud her yield Of wheat, although
as yet sparsely settled country, immense.
And it Is said to be the best wheat in the
world. 1t finds great market in the great
mills nj Minnaanolig
AN IMMENSE TERRITORY.
Dakota is an immense territory-embra'
ces 10000 square miles and ranks next to
Texas in size. In 1880 it only had l35OOC
inhabitants, but at anything like the same
per cent OF increase then shown 1853 il
must now have over double that number
Indeed we were told at Fargo that o
quarter Of a million Of people would be
added to the population this year aloup
They have poured in in swarms. In 1886
it produced nearly 3,000,000 bushels o.
wheat (nearly three-iourths as much a,
West Virgiaia) and 2,2l1000 bushes o.
oats as against West Virginia's l,90S,00C
bushels.
About 3 o'clock in the afternoon oul
train reached Bismarck on the Missouri
river-2,200 miles above its mouth neal
st. Louis, and 1000 miles below the head
OF It's navigation. Here our special was
halted and We fouAd town OF 5000 in
habitants, about one third Of whom had
turned out to meet and greet us. There
were carriages, buggies and hacks more
than sufficient to carry our party and all
the prominent citizens around the place
They had recently wrested the Capital
from its location at Yankton aud we're in q
high state Of jubilatlon over the fact. Lots
had sold at 1900 per front foot on the
principal business street, but were little
oil Just at this time. And this with all
out doors to choose from. No wonder the
visiting journalists looked at each other
with a squirt that said show is this for
high?' Col. Wm. Thompson, an ex-
member Of the 30th and Slst Congresses
from Iowa, and a brigadier general IN the
war-one OF the fathers OF the city-said,
"gentlemen this is the d-dst biggest little
town you ever saw. have been all over
the continent aud have seen lie inside and
out for seventy years, and tell you this
town beats h-I, The amount Of business
done Is simply immense"
We were driven TO the rear Of the town
to the top Of plateau, where we were told
the Capitol building is to be located. The
town looked very small from the plateau and
the country round about limitless, fence.
less, uncultivated, and seemingly uninhab'
tied. But things are not always what they
seem, especially in the far Northwest, aud
in such a tremendous scope OF country
there is no telling how many people could
be got together IN days notice.
Il ths vest end OF the town is the rail
road bridge Of the Northern Pacific, acroes
the Missouri, that cost 81 500, 900, and there
ia also long steamboat warehouse, and l
counted eleven boats in the river along an
extent Of half mile-boats that carried
merchandise up 10 Fort Benton in the ssa.
son o! navigation, and that vent South
into the cotton tributaries OF the Mississippi
in the winter. We saw good deal OF mer.
chaudise at the warehouse, and came TO
Col. Thompson's conclusion, that Bismarck
wss pretty big little place sure enough.
At the eonelaHio9 Of the drive we came
back to the land office OF the railroad and
found that enough champagne was being
opened to float small boat. Hall the
toyu seemed gathered at this rendezvous
and the SPARKLING liquid literally flowed as
free as water, and q good deal freer than
any water in sight.
Att o'clock, when the sun was low, gen.
eral passenger sgent Barnes, wac had
charge Of our expedition, announced that
supper was ready on board the special
and that her course was westward ho
So amidst mulitudinous invitations to stop
IS ye came back and stay week we tore
ourselves iroE the embraces Of these won
derfully enterprising pOople.
The twilight lasts 10 this latitude Of "
making the days seem wonderfully long.
We saw so much aud travelled so far every
day that we seemed living an essential part
OF q lifetime sysSy tTenty.four hours. II
was common to hear some OF our party re-