Daily globe., 1883-10-29

The Branch Line to the Yellowstone National
Park has its terminal point here, and all the i'm
mense travel to that famous resort is compelled
to stop here from a few honrs' time to number
Of days. The principal shops Of the railroad
company between Brainerd and the Pacific Ocean
are now being built here. They viii give en-
ployment to probably 1000 men. Pine timber is
plenty in the surrounding country, and variOus
saWmills III the immediate vicinity of the town
furnish work for hosts of employs. The valleys
OF the Yellowstone, Shields ana Smith rivers gre
vast and very rich in agricultural resources, and
are well settled. Their trade is entirely tributary
to Livingston, while magnificent cattle ranches
abound in every direction; vast mines Of true bi-
luminous coal, which can be coked for u cent?
per ton; also rich iron minee ere within two to
four miles from town, AID are being worked.
The gold placer mines of Emigrant Gulch, Bear
Crevice, Mill Creek, and Eight-Mile Creek, Gre
all in the Yellowstone Valley just south of Liv-
ingston, directly tributary to it, and are being
actively worked. That wonderfully rich quartz
countrv, silver and gold, known Us 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 are but two miles distant, and the
manufacture cf lime is already an important in
dustry. this being the first point after leaving Du
luth on the east, 1,000 miles, where lime rock is
found. There are some 200 buildings in co1rse
of construction. The Park Addition on which
the new ST., 900 school house is expected to bs
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 direction. There are two
banks, the First National and private bank; two
newspapers, one daily and one weekly. A snleit
ing and reduction company is also IN process Of
formation, to be located here. There ace many
chances for business enterprises OF various hntis.
Like all new countries, the portUnities for
profitable employment are very good and work.
men as well as men of capital will find plenty uf
chances in and around the town. Livingston ls
less than year old, yet it is probably the second
largest city in Montana: 1t is not surprising
when one considers that agriculture alone has
made Fargo the Northern Pacific coInpany'y rail
road shops, Brainerd; summer visitors, Saratoga;
lumber, Eau Claire: silver end gold mines, Der-
yer; cattle Kansas City; iron and coal, Pttsburg;
thet combination of all of thsse factors as Is
found here should, within the next FIVE years
mako this point city Of at least $4,000 people.
The prediction may seem wild one, but we have
yet to see or ksow anyone who, 9 few years ago,
was accused OF being wild then in their prsdic-
tions, who predicted onehaif Of what les actual
~ occurred in the Northern Pacific country. We
sold lots in Fargo few years ego for 500 each
tha. would sell to-day for $40 0G0; at JaInes
town for SIS per acre (cost ~ cents) that to-day
sell for $1,000, and are built on. We have acres
to-day in Fargo which cost 48111 cents that ars
now in town lots selling at the rate Of 81 $50 per
sore. So lots at Livingston which We now fer
at from S25 to $3.50 viii, inside of years, sell at
from $500 to $4,000 apiece. They have done SO
at all coed points on the road IN the past, and
they will in the future-particularly at an e1cep-
tionally good poiut Like this. We ad .ance price
inJuly.
G. LIVINGSTON & CO.,
S8 East Third street, st. Paul.
6. G.. BEARDsLEY,
Fargo, Dakota.
W. A. SMITH,