The Dickinson press. (Dickinson, Stark County, D.T. [i.e. N.D.]) 1883-1927, 1884-05-24
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Taylor and Vicinity.
TAYLOR, May 9th. 1884


took passage from Dickinson to
Gladstone OH a freight engine to note
the Ignite as steam fuel on the loco
motive and found that it worked bet
ter than anticipated.
The Heart, after uniting with the
Green river at Gladstone, takes
large curve to the south, while the
railroad continues it's course east
across the gently mdulating upland
to Taylor and on past Richardton,
over a remarkably even and rich sec.
tion of country. The soil is the dark
brown to black variety, which pre-
dominates all along the line from Bel
field, 10 miles west, and they call it
here mulatto land, which is very ap-
propriate and the same term applied
to it in the Willamette valley. Oregon
1t is identical with the best produc-
ing soil of Oregon and the superior
soil of Butte county, California,
which produces heavy crops every
year wet or dry. There are some
small patches of light sandy loan OH
top of some of the swclls and occa-
sionally a patch of a few acres of soft
black to brown clay or loAm snil. per-
haps one per cent of each. There ss.sss s..ss
three OF four sections of hilly and one
of broken land north of town where
oak and other timber get sufficient
protection from fire to grow to ma
ture trees. I measured one oak
stump, recently cut, 80 inches across,
of a good tough quality of timber and
1 think it pity there are no more
gulches to protect the timber from
the prairie fires. From the top of
one of the small hills, l had Il fine
view Of the gently rolling land for 8
or 10 miles west and north to some
more hills, and east as far as my hori-
zon extended, over a fine rolling coun-
try, and south to the Heart, 10 miles,
along which the land is somewhat
hilly. From Gladstone here and as
far beyond us have noticed, the rail-
road required very little grading and
seldom a cut deep enough to show
the subsoil, which is clay, strongly
impregnated with lime, phosphate of
lime and rich in other plant food.
With so fine country surrounding it,
the town of Taylor has Il promising
future as soon as the farmers have
had time to improve their land,
which they all appear to be doing as
fast us their means admit. From re-
liable sources | learn that 1900 acres
of wheat and oats are being seeded
this spring, which is now nearly all
in the ground, some on sod broke
shallow last year and some replowcd.
When seeding is finished the break
ing plows will be pushed with energy.
The town has Il fine location in
choice section of country. 1t has two
stores, two blacksmith shops, an agri-
cultural implement house and fine
hotel nearly completed, that is being
handsomely furnished by A. B. Berry
formerly of Chester, N. j., and judg-
ing from the courteous manners of
Mr.. b. and his excellent lady, think
visitors and the travelling public will
find a very agreeable stopping place
at Taylor. The crops last season
were injured more OF less by the
drouth, yet some OF the oats made so
bushels per acre and have weighed
a half bushel, raised by j. X. Slack,
formerly of Livingstone county,
n. Y, that weighed 2015 pounds, and
have seen wheat of choice quality,
raised by G. II. Vannier, formerly OF
n. j., that made 1G bushels per acre
OH shallow sod, broke the year pre-
vious. This point was favored last
summer, getting one shower that
missed other places west, while Dick
inson got much more rain this spring
than fell here, yet there is plenty
here and this season bins fair to be
as wet as in 1881 and 1882.
S. PELTON.
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