Bismarck tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1884, 1883-03-09
The Biggest Lie Of the season,

A gentleman from Grand Rapids
Mich, recently visited Fargo, inter
viewed the boomers, went crazy and
wrote the following to the Grand Ra pids
Eagle:
Having had numerous inquiries made in re-
gard 10 Dakota, from many persons in Grand
Rapids, as we'll as other parts of Michigan and
other states, may impart the information they
seek through your columns? New countries, in
their infancy, have had, and presume always
will have tremendous blooming" and Dakota
has not been an exception. People OF every
of Michigan) are pouring into the territory by
thousands upon thousands; and why this stam-
pede? Because (why, think) they can earn
their bread without much sweat Of their brow;
like Jonah, sit down, smoke their pipes, and
behold the wonderful growth Of everything
around them
Persons at distance may think, read and
wonder and enquire; but their thoughts and
imaginations can form no conception nor ap-
proach the actual reality Of seeing. The rapid
growth of vegetables is 80 great that man when
be even sees with his own eyes and feels with
his own hands, is lost in amazement, and be-
holding such wonders, he hardly knows him
self. whether he is in the body or out of the
body.
Garden seeds are usually planted in the even
ing, and the following morning you will find
beets, cucumbers, cabbages and pumpkins of
enormous size. Beets grow five feet in di-
ameter and fifteen feet long, requiring team
of strong horses to pull them out of the ground
one beet is sufficient to supply family of ten
persons for year, while the space occupied by
the beet is converted into cistern or well.
Cabbages are we'll mounted in the air, growing
on stalks from 200 to 800 feet high, and q re-
markable features spiral staircase winds around
the stalk to its height. The stalks in diameter
are sufficient to admit on the inside good
| sized elevator.
On land grants made by the government as
ber will take the place of cottonwood, maple
and blackwalnut. A s'rapid transit company
has been organized with capital Of several
millions of dollars. The company will set out
groves of ten acres of the choicest cabbages,
one at Bismarck, one at Jamestown, and one at
the headquarters at Fargo: These groves are
designed to tower upward to the height of one
thousand feet, at the top Of which suitable
buildings will be erected with sufficient capac-
ity to gather in and store up an immense
amount of the purest and most powerful "bliz-
zards," by which persons may be waited from
Bismarck to Fargo, distance of two hundred
miles, in ten seconds. The stock in this COM
pany already commands premium OF hve
hundred per cent.
As to potatoes, it is needless to say one word !;
they have been on exhibition and have far
famed notoriety all over the world. Six p0ta-
toes are considered good load for two-horse
team.
From pumpkin seed planted at Mahpeton.
the vines will follow the Red river . distance of
two hundred and fifty miles to Lake Winnipeg,
from which pumpkins sufficient in number can
| be raised to supply the entire northwest, a.
| they grow from twenty-five to one hundred feet
in diameter. An eastern firm has contracted