The Dickinson press., 1884-04-12
A Promising Future.

lie IoWL VI DlchllSOl Was plltGeu
and first lots sold in Sept. 1889 and a
few buildings were put up during the
next winter. The railroad company
spent, last summer, $250,0O0 in shops,
round house, depot and other inn
prOvements, and there were a large
number of residences and business
houses erected for so young Il town.
The residences are mostly n story
cottages, neat and comfortable. The
business houses, mostly two stories,
are built in solid blocks and all of
wood. The railroad shops and round
houses are of brick, shipped from
Mandan. They are to have a brick
yard started here this season and the
frame business houses will probably
soon give place to brick blocks.
There are two churches. and regular
meetings held in the school house by
the Congregationalists, IL public
hall, three hotels, all crowded, and a
fourth to let, a good opening for bust
ness, as those running are crowded
and obliged to rent rooms in the up.
per stories of business houses to lodge
their guests. There are eight stores,
one meat market, one bakery and one
ladies' bazaar and millinery store.
There are several saloons, yet the
town is quiet and orderly, which
speaks well for their customers and
proprietors. The saloons seem to be
patronized by the large floating popu-
lation of hunters and COW boys. The
population is probably about 700,
which would seem remarkable in the
east, for a town principally built last
summer, and especially so for a town
that has had a natural, healthy growth
without booming, but there are nat
ural causes for it. First it is the
terminus of the Missouri freight
division and center of passenger divi-
sion of the n. p. r. R., and there is
now established a wagon freight line
to the Black Hills where millions of
pounds of freight will be shipped this
season. About 100000 pounds were
shipped last week, and there is a re-
markedly fine grass and farming
country along the route south for Il
hundred miles OF more, also to the
north, that will bring trade to this
and other towns along the railroad,
while farming is being commenced
about here i'll good earnest. Nh. II.
l.. Dickinson is seeding this spring,
about 400 acres; VIM. Davis about the
same; G. S. Burke, 900 acres and
many others according to their means
but all seem to mean business.
Potatoes can be had by the load for
Sl.0Oa bushel, yet retail for 81. so;
oats IS Cts; Eastern butter IS to 40
cts; groceries and dry goods but little
higher than east; white pulverized
G sugar 10 cts; pork very high; beef
by the side 10 cts; very choice ven :
son, antelope n buffalo meat 5 TO .
cts, the latter scarce and when cured
worth 10 cts; Fargo flour 1925 per
hundred. The engine and some of
the machinery is at Gladstone for a
mill that will make q good market for
the wheat. There is a fine opening
here for a mill, furniture store and
merchant tailor. This town and
country have a promising future; the
founder, Senator Dickinson, of New
York, is a man who seems to act up.
on the principle of live and let live:
the balance of the pioneers are OF
similar stuff, all friendly and hospit.
able. full of enterprise. Every mar
stands on his merits and is estimated
thereby.
6. PETITION.