Jamestown weekly alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1882-1925, 1884-10-02

contains An elegant new hotel and nu-
mereus business and residence edifices
which show enterprise on the part of the
people and faith in the future of the town
and country around. Steele, situated in
the same beautiful and fertile highland
valley, is the county seat, provided with
a fine brick court house and other public
and private edifices to match.
Coming into the Missouri river valley
the farm residences increase IN number,
and the immense fields of stubDle from
which the harvest has been gathered, with
here and there patch of corn still almost
entirely unbleached by frost, planted as
an experiment and proved successful, are
views that come within range Of q single
glance Of the eye IN almost sny direction.
The site of Bismarck is beautiful one,
on the south or sunny eide Of graceful
slope affording the most perfect and nat
ural drainage and giving from every resi-.
dence in the city view to the south oyer
an immense range OF country, the vision
ending in that direction with the elevs-
ton on the opposite side Of the Missouri
river which there makes curve to the
southeast, the distance appearing to oe
three or four miles but which really 10
thirteen, all OF which distance the people
can sit at their windows and watch the
steamboats, as they, ply up and down the
longest navigable river IN the world,
while far out to the east may be seen the
most beautiful farming country on the
continent in countless thousands Of acres
West and south of the city can be seen
several thousand acres Of heavy timber in
body along the river, and five miles to
the southwest Fort Abraham Lincoln, on
the opposite bluff of the river, looms up
to the view. -,
w M1le seyeruI splcuuIu UrICK OIocks and
numerous palstial residences have been
built the past summer, which In and OF
themselves are unmistakaole evidences OF
thrift and enterprise, the one building
that attracts attention above all others
and which is the crowning enterprise OF
VIM uoCuIC ouu tuC oCos Va 6ovSAusAsSAs
will combine to make the great city Of
the far northwest, is the new capital
building, which stands on the elevation
on the north side of the city massive,
magnificent and enduring monument to
the heroic enterprise OF the people Of Bis
marok and Burleigh county, Of the year
1883, whe contributed out of their own
pockets one hundred thousand dollars in
cash and donated three hundred and
twenty acres of land from which by judi
cious management five hundred thousand
dollars more may be realized IN the course
Of few years. The capital building is .
model of architectural beauty and is built
from froudatien to dome in the most sub
stantial manner. The governors office,
and those of the several departments, are
large, convenient and elegant, occupying
the first floor. The second floor is occu-
med by committee rooms on the east side
and on the west by Representative Hall,
which is large and we'll lighted room
provided with gallery capable of seating
several hundred persons comfortably.
This room is designed ultimately to be
the council or senate chamber, when the
south wing shall have been built, but for
the pre- sent the council chamber will be
an elegant and spacious room in tho
northeast part of the third story which is
ultimately designed for the supreme court
room. There is nothing shoddy in the
construction, nor IS there useless orna-
mentatlon, but the whole Is designed and
built with view to permanence and use
full elegance, and when finally and fully
completed will compare faverab!y with
any of the state houses IN the western
states and surpass many of them, without
any cost to the people IA the way of tax
eS.
The new North Dakota penitentiary
just completed out about mile east Of
the city is handsome aud substantial
building, small as yet but large enough
to accommodate all present necessities.
1t is on a beautiful site capable Of being
enlarged to suit any reasonable contin-
gency Of time and crime.
There is perhaps ne locality In the ter
ritory that has been more unjustly and
persistently slandered by press and peo-
pie than Bismarck, and this misrepresen-
tation has IN past years retarded her
growth somewhat. The impression has
been given out and prevails oil over the
country east that Bismarck Is on the low,
sandy bottom lands of the Missouri River,
unfit for the habitation of ANYTHING but