Daily globe. [volume] (St. Paul, Minn.) 1878-1884, 1883-10-08
POPULATION ]


The Branch Line 10 the Yellowstone National
Park has its terminal point here, ard ali the I'M
mense travel to that famous resort is compelled
to stop here from few holrs' time to q number
of days. The principal shops of the railroad
company between Brainerd and the Pacific Ocean
ere now being bnilt here. They viii give en-
ployment to probably 1000 men. Pine timber is
plenty in the surrounding country, and various
saw1nills ia the immediate vicinity of the town
furnish work for hosts OF employs. The valleys
of the Yellowstone, Shields ami Smith rivers are
vast and very rich in agricultural resources, ana
are well settled. Their trade Is entirely tr1Dut'r ~
to Livingston, while magnificent cattle ranches
abound in every direction; vast mines OF true oi'
luminous coal, which can be coke2 for IA cents
per ton; also rich iron mines are within two To
four miles from town, d are being worked
The gold placer mines Of Emigrant Gulch, Bear
Cre7ice, Mill Creek, and Eight-Mile Creek, are
all in the Yellowstone Valley just south Of LiV-
ingston, directly tributary to 1t, and are being
actively worked. That wonderfully rich qoalta
county,, silver and gold, known as the Clark's
Fork District, is south of town, and Livingston
is the headquarters and Quitting point. I'm
mense deposits of limestone, sandstone, clay and
fine brick clay, but two miles distant, and the
manufacture Of lime is already important In
dustry, this being the first point after leaving Du-
luth on the east, 1,O0e miles, where lime rock Is
found. There are some 200 buildings in course
the new SIT, 900 school house is expected to be
built is the most desirable residence property in
town, while the Palace Addition contains the
cheapest business property offered for sale-the
tendency of business and business Improvements
being largely in that 'iir"ction. There are two
banks, the First Nt',- 81 D~lv:i-a hank; tive
newspapers, one Go4ls re. 20. S.V i s1ne'F
ing and reduction ue.s.s - - g'""'--
formation, to t,e ',.,.e- 49,. F"e"-
chances for busi,s--- - y-.r1'' .t.'-''
Like all new Countries, - .,s,tu-.s."'- 81
profitable employment are very sUUd aid work
| men as well as men of capital viii ind plenty vi
chances in and around the town. Livingston Is
less than year sld yet it is probably the second
largest city in Montana: It is rot surprising
| when one considers that agriculture alone has
| made Fargo; the Northern Pacific company's rail
road shops, Brainerd; summer visitors, Saratoga;
| inmber, Fan Claire; silver and gold mines, Den
ver cattle Kansas City; iron and coal, Pittsburg:
that combination OF all of these factors as Ie
| found here should, within the next FIVE year,
make this point city of at least 10000 people.
The prediction may seem q wild one, but we hs 7e
| yet to see Or know anyone who, few years ago.
| was accused of being wild then in their predic
tons, who predicted one-half Of what has actual
| ly occurred in the Northern Pacific country. We
sold lOt- in Fargo few years ago for Sl0O each
that would sell to-day for $40 $50; acres at James
town for SIS per acre (cost 48 cents) that to-day
cell for 1880, and are built on. We have acres
to-day in Fargo which cost 481a cents that are
COW in town lots selling at the rate OF 81 $50 pei
| aero. So lots at Livingston which we now ffaI
at from sos to $3.50 will, inside of years, cell al
| from $500 to $4,000 apiece. They have done s.
at all good points on the road in the past, and
they will 10 the future particularly at an excep
| tionally good point like this. We ad ance prics
| inJuly.
C. LIVINGSTON g. CO.,
60 East Third street, st. Paul.
G. G.. REARDSLEY,
Fargo, Dakota.
W. A. SMITH,
General Agent, Livingston, Montana.