Wheeling Sunday register. [volume] (Wheeling, W. Va.) 1882-1934, 1883-04-22

and two weekly newspapers. The
buildings are of about the kind gener-
elly seen in western towns, that is,
small frame structures predominate.
In addition to the shipping facilities
furnished by the n. p. r. r there Is
very extensive steamboat business car
ried on here. Five lines having head
quarters here and controlling some
forty vessels ply to Fort Benton In
Montana, 1000 miles northwest OF Bis
marck. and also navigate the Yellow
stone and Big Horn rivers. Then there
Is river communication with st. Louis
and all Intermediate points on the Mis-
sIuri river. Blsmarck's situation on
the Northern Pac. fees main line
and alongside wide and losg
navigable river, railroad regul-
aIOr," its distance from any OF
the large cities, its being in = good
agricultural country aud its prospects
fer more railroads the Northwestern
aid g. NJ. d ST. P. both surveyed lines
Into the town last year, make It's in
habitant5 rather sanguIne regarding It,
future greatness, aud they are fond OF
quoting Ia strangers the remark OF ex-
Senator Ramsey, Of Minnesota, that
there would be- but one large city on
the line of the Northern Pacific between
the lakes and its western terminus AMI
IT, at that city would be ut the Missouri
river.
business property In the hest locations
IN Bismarck is worth about Sl2o per
front foot, and residence property with
in convenient distance of the business
blocks is selling 1T about $3.50 for lot
oi IS feet front. A good many eastern
Spectators have bought property 10 Is.
during the last year or two anu there
has been a rapid increase in values.
Two wears ago lots which are now sold
for $50 could have been, and many
were, bought for S45.
nismarck
was first settled in 1872 and when i'm
migration to Dakota first set in, it be-
GENE the center of the great stage route
to Dead wood and the Black HILLS.
/ became acquainted at Bismarck
with Col. Z. NJ. Brown, formerly OF
Norfolk, Va, aud now proprietor OF the
Bismarck Weekly Herald. He Is a
shrewd old gentleman and although
largely INTERESTED in town real estate,
depreciates the rising of its value 0y
means of any speculative fever, as he
thinks that might cause reaction
which would retdrd the towns develop
ment, otherwise sure he thinks TO pro-
gress rapidly. Referring to the too
common plan of laying out towns as
though they were sure To become large
cities, plating immense areas aud fore.
ing people who want cheap building
lots TO go long distances from the busi-
ness street, thus leaving large spaces,
perhaps never to be built upon, i'll the
heart of the town,-he said that the
process pun him in mind OF the boy who
set the goose. That the mother who
noticed that q goose was sticking pretty
cose TO her nest. told her rogulsh boy
to "set that goose" The youth placed
i'll and around the nest three times as
many eggs as were needful. When the
the old lady returned and found out In
what manner she had been Obeyed she
was wroth, and scoldiDg the boy, told
him that he ought to have had sense
enough to know that one goose couldn't
hatch out that many eggs. His answer
was: "Well, mother, did know she
couldn't hatch 'em all, but just wanted
to see the darned thing spread herself"
A new iron railroad bridge was COM
pleted last year 'ross the Missouri at
Bismarck, which cost 81, 5O0,OOO Man
dan, a new town with population Of
about 500, is located on the west bank
of the river opposite Bismarck.
Town Lot Investments
have paid immense profits in some OF
these Dakota towns. Lots in business
locations bought at $50 when the town
was plated, have IN some cases in
creased In value in four or five years to
$1,000, or even $4,000. Residence lots
bought at $50 have been worth 500 to
81 600. In many cases though what
were once promising town sites, are now
fine wheat ranches. He who seeks
town lot investments out here has need
to be exceedingly wary i'll buying, as
the tricks and devices of the smart
fellows who are "laying for fat ducks"
are numerous and plausible. The pros
pectOr i'm this line will do far better to
be guided rather by his own independ-
ent impressions than by the statements
of others, unless he has extra good
reasons for trusting them. The advice
of an honest old DakOtan to young
Eastern stranger who had Interested
him and who was looking for lots to
buy, was: young fellow, first go all
around and hear all you can and see
all you can, and when you come to
spend your moneJ, don't you believe
anything you have heard and not more
than half what you have SEEN"
Generally speaking, towns started In
advance Of the railroads, and with their
cooperation, have not been successful,
how ever, much doomed, although there
lave been some exceptions. TIE rail-
roads will either go in some other dlrec-
ton or will locate their station a little
further on, and in conjunction with
some syndicate start q new town, to
which the citizens in the older place are
in a manner forced to remove. In
buying lots, it is well to learn whether
the railroad is interested in the site and
booming the place in its pamphlets,
otherwise, whatever the advertised at
fractions of the place are, it is apt to be
q good place to let alone, The railroad
will have q finger In the pie and if not
admitted to share is very liable to Kill
OIL the place In the way Indicated. The
usual method ofstarting good town Is
for the town site company to divide
evenly with the railroad company all
the lots in the first section plated.
Many towns are, OF cOur,e, started indie
pendently by wealthy boomers merelyto
sell what lots they readily can and then
abandon the place. leaving its further
development, il it Is to have any, to be
accomplished for their benefit by those
whom they Rave induced to buy or
locate there. The same lot of Lumber
has done duty recently in three booms
for IS many town sites. Tue boomers
advertised that 'the lumber might be
seen already on the ground for the
construction OF a fine large hotel" This
was one Of the cases where the young
fellow should not have believed more
than half what he had seen"
To invest early in a new town Ia Da-
kota which Is being boomed by the
railroad company and by reliable
parties and is in good agricultural
district and on a railroad already built,
is very quick way of making money,
and is far better in most cases than buy
ing in an older place where values are
ALREADY well advanced. he.
One Bit of Modern Slang Not New.
St Louis Globe Democrat.
Tumble IS a very old and lately reviv-
cd ynlUarism meaning TO pOm Drahand