Seattle daily post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, W.T. [Wash.]) 1881-1888, 1883-10-14
CONSOLIDATED In 1881.

Wien uS uIgS us Nrli-he gets IRE and
water out of the same h1ier IN the
ground.
The future of northwestern Dakots is
not altogether unoertaiL Grain will
grow here and there. for il does grow.
Cattle will derive more or less susie
nance from the prairie and frofe among
the buttes after ths better gr4Ziag
lands have been taken up. fhe more
/ yiolsnily wrought parts of the Bad
/ Lands will for Ioag titse afford shelter
| to the game, big aud little, crowded
from the east and from the west. Bat
we shall not ss... western Dakota very
popnlJas: II il the least promising re-
gion on the SoethsFa p2cItIc Railroad
The evolution Of the North American
CITY may be studied 10 better adv ,ntasse
along this rpnts than anywhere els.,.
We touch towns at every st we of devei-
opment.
! The Youngest settlements are on the
newest part of the line, and that is
nLder the west slops of the Rockies. be
tween ferra Firma and Missoula. Here
| you survey the town IN its earliest in
fancy. There u a railroad station with
a name and siding and nothing fur
| ther. A canvas top wagon stands near
| the track. Four horses or mules are
/ sctltStl Df. ut s-AtIcT has uflfSn
stakes and pItcned a comfortable tent,
large enongn to contain two black val
nut bedste1ds, a table aud other fdrni-
ture. His wife sits in rocking chair
near the flap, watching the train rs il
passes. From two to half dozen
youngsters are tumbling around in the
| sun. The cook steve Is outdoors, with
| saga other property as cannot be stored
| iu the tent. Tne citizen himself is not
| far on, hard at work already upon the
| frame Of the building in which he ex-
pects ~ make his permauent residepse,
| Then comes another wagon with more
| household furniture and children. The
| looation Of the second tent al fn rela-.
| tion to the first perhaps determines the
bearings of the main business street of
| the city. By the time ehoro are three
or four wagons on the ground, aud two
or three frame buildings In process of
| construction, another sort of tent Ap-
pears as if by magic, with Saloon" in
big letters across the front. Ciwboys
begin to ride in and Aay whisky. fhe
t0gn becomes a point of commercial
Importance. Tue saloon tent is the
gersn of the future Board OF Trade.
Now we get by rapid strides to- well
established communities, which date
Il tutlf oftkih tou vi tWCiNC tuOitii5 Otch,
| like Gladstone aud Dickinson IN Dako-
ta, and Billings and Livingstone in
| Montana. IL built on the prairie they
look like toy villages arranged by
child on brOwnish yellow carpet.
rhe prairie towns of Dakota have a
more orderly anu at the same time
less real appearance than the valley set
Elements of the neighboring Territory.
| IL seeras indiscreet to leave them out at
| night on the wind-swept plain.
The first street is always parallel with
| the railroad track, extending each wav
from the station. The second street
runs off at right angles, and if the
growth of the town continues it usually
becomes in time the more. important
highway. Other streets are also laid
out, right and left. shauties and brick
buildings spring up side by side, and IN
a few months the real estate agent Is
prepared to exhibit city map, plotted
on a scale that would suit place with
1000 inhabitants, and to give you your
choice of town lots at from S25 to 5000
apiece. IL is only about year sinae
the first house was erected in Billings.
| Now there are nearly 800 houses, aud
the population is we'll mp to 300. IL
has a brick church, bank, several
l rtiNbBtS, tutGo hVWNf APotor sthNN stDsSA'f
and horse railroad. Statistics of pop
ulation, however, are of tsifling value ia
towns that double their inhabitants IN a
! few weeks or IA few months. :.
The social and business development
of the to- WI generally follows this or
der: Saloons, stores iii which the necess-
aries of life are sold, gambling estab-
lishments, daily newspapers, school
! houses, bank. a church, wholesale
store. a Jail. For time the saloons
and the newspapers struggle for nurner-
i ieal supremacy The appes france of
the i,iI marksa distinct epdch in the
crystiiizasion of society. The jail AT
Livingston, the newest Of the cities, was
lust finished and had no inmates. 1t IS
n one story structure of brick ana stuo-
Co. standing next to a log house with
red shades in the windows, and this
sign over the door, Miss Criakets Pal-
ace." The jail at Bozernan, which ~
comparatively an old place, cont ined
tweuty-seven prisoners, seven OF whom
were held forsmurder. ..
Probably the mos. forlorn, hopele -
looking place for the agriouitur'st on
thu whole line of the railroad IS Aims
sorth. ON the Snake RIVER, in the south-
eastern part of Washington Territory
The town il an uuthrifty collection of
unpaiuted shanties. The population
largely consists of strangers, roughs.
hariots. ChinAynen and hegx The de.
cent psoplo YOU meet are anxious to
have Won uud8tstlsll6 that they do not
helonp to Ainsgorth.. One of the first
men encOuntered Oh the street Wac
Chinaman with his tbfoat half cut. HE
was lookins for the snsriH. The streets
are a mixture 6f dust and sand, ankle
deem except whers they are paved with
old nlayiug cards and broken whisky
bottles. In every direction from the ut
, lila settlement stretch for miles dreary
nIains of ti,e same mixture of dus, and
sand. covered with sage busaes. Every
thing iyliry except tie river that rusnes
, along, past the town ss II ashamed g
. stayiin such company. II Sas the losh
ds{ Of September swhen we were ID
kinsworth. There had not been drop
Of rain since the beginning OF May.
sneak particularly OF A,nswortn, ne-
causs. as has been said. there Is not
spat bstHssn Fargo and Portland I'D wnico
is less inviting TO the farmer. lne OUT.
look ia simply dishearteninc, The town
ia rniiroad settlement, owing its ex
i istinoe 10 the fact that ~ big bridge u
D building over the Snake river at thai
point.
II year or tvo ago it occurred to
|. German blal1umith named Schune
) mann. who A10 found II hard 10 sup
.nort his 3 b I'D family at the East
.. nirkk - hnAn~h hnl- -Aa~k 1odkl -
: ltookup q qunrtok section of sa2e aft
q YSon and hpueht .eouse adjMnipg hft
!. o{ thJ same soft ffdm - 3altdsd Sn
nany. payipa the Ioweet Rsice on q
schsdnIs, GO An Acre. TNn he BEG u
: B tr5 " raise crops yitneus afslls = .
!. aWhat did people sayy' remarked
. Schuue, aann, cutting as good watpr
9 melon as is often sold Ia WashtnaC,
Q Market. "They said was d--d foQ
J. Out of the sand, stripped OF itsssfg
l. brrsh. Mr.. Shunemann has rtised wnea
!. forty bushels to the acIe-or tefe'
Il times the average acre yield OF she wPi
y country, and two thirds of the weld. o
|. the crack land in tue Gaiiatin vsnes
e He has raised oats. barley, millet sn'
-e rye. all of excellent quality and IN fe
&. munerative quantities. He exhioss
e. pumpkins. squashes, beets. carrots an
"a ,,.,ta t..,s thsss. vepetsb beiug large