St. Paul daily globe. [volume] (Saint Paul, Minn.) 1884-1896, 1886-04-17
And BOttineau County One Of the Most
Prosperous and Healthfnl in
That Region.
Remarkable Increase IN It's Popula-
ton and the Record Sure
10 be Broken.
Immigrants Pouring I'm From Canada
aud the States--Stock-Raisi
and Manufacturing.
Special to the Globe.

power are vet undeveloped. IN respect 70
that in which il is best known 1t lays claim
to superiority because of the productiveness
of its soil and the steady, sturdy character
of its inhabitants. The best quality OF
wheat is raised i'm Bottineau county, and
for which it took the first premium over all
samples of spring wheat on exhibition al
the New Orleans exposition of last year. as
was certified to by Mai. Fleming of Fargo,
commissioner from North Dakota This
county Is also famous because of the so
briefly, industry and the high moral tone
which ennoble the character Of its people.
| 1t is the only frontier county which has not
vet come under the dominion OF King Al
cohol, and its career has not yet been sui
| lied with that stain of lawlessness and vio-
lence which more or less characterize all
FRONTIER SETTLEMENTS.
and if the spirit that has animated the peo-
pie in the desire to prohibit the sale Of
| liquor within its limits. and which was re-
Gently manifested in the presentation TO the
| county commissioners of petition signed
! by majority of its voters, in favor OF such
prohibition, prevail in the future as it has
in the past, BOttineau will justly claim the
first premium for the production OF the best
order-loying, peace-promoting people IN the
| far West. Bottineau county Is situated in
settled part of the land district of Devils
Lake and takes in the western half Of the
Turtle mountains. There are five counties
between it and the west boundary of the
territory. distance of $50 miles, said TO
contain thousands OF acres of land of the
| highest fertility. and Astounding in beauti-
| full lakes, the pickerel in which would de-
light the hearts of st. Paul's famous fisher
men. The area of
BoTTINEAU COUNTY,
which was only organized in July, 1884. is
1925 square miles or S4S, 600 acres, 95, 900
of which are in the mountains. The num-
Der of acres surveyed is $50, 400, of which
one township. or 90, 600 acres, is in the
mountains. The number taken by actual
settlers on the 1st of January last was 49,
$40, since which time a large number of
filings has been made. The land is going
off like hot cakes, and the cry is ''still they
come" from Manitoba and Ontario. These
provinces are fast becoming depopulated
and transplanted onto our Dakota soil, be-
cause, as your namesake Of Toronto,
says:
Sir John Macdonald and his partisans have
fastened as leeches on the Canadian body
polite and sucker out its very life blood, and
by misgovernment excessive taxation and
the consequent business depression and want
of employment, have driven hundreds Of
thousands of the bone and sinew of the peo-
pie away from their old homes.
THERE ARE SIX TOWNSHIPS,
or over 100, 900 acres in this county to be
surveyed this season-splendid opportuni-
ties for young men and women too, who
may desire TO make for themselves homes
in this health and happiness producing
region. By the census of 1885, there were
June 1st SIS inhabitants in the county
AT the present time there are certainly at
low estimate LOO. and by the time snow
flies it is safe to say that at least half a
thousand more of the brain and Drawn of
this country and of Canada will have found
home upon its vigorous acres, freed from
all the ills of malaria-infected districts,
from the burdens necessitated by the culti-
walton of the worn-out soil of the East and
from the expressions arising from the tyr
amy of despotic landlords and rigorous
taskmasters everywhere. OF the population
a year ago. 246 were native and to the
manor born, and 572 came from foreign
lands. OF tie latter 436 are Canadians, by
far the largest proportion of whom are
English speaking. The immigration from
Canada into this county and the surround
ing country is greater than ever before and
is daily increasing, as the customs reports
test The cultivation of the land and
.....,. RAISING OF STOCK
are Of the thorough kind. The productions
of the first year, 1884, were quite varied,
consisting of wheat, corn, oats and barley,
butter, cheese, wool, tobacco, peas, beans
and potatoes. Altogether there were s051<
acres under cereal cultivation, producing
20, 121 bushels of grain. In 1885. accord
inu m ha Df ha
yield amounted TO over 90. 600 bushels, and
it is estimated that this year there will be
at least 5000 acres that will glisten
with the golden grain. and which,
to paraphrase the recent celebrated Du-
luthian post-pandial remark of Gov.
Pierce, with every Manitoba zephyr that
comes from beyond the mountains, the
countless fields that ripen in the summer
sun will nod their heads lovingly and rev.
erentially towards st. Paul. the Apostolic
City. provided Jim Hill turns his iron
horses heads northwestwardly from DEVILS
Lake to take. il away; otherwise IL will
take a short cut across the line to where
the Southwestern branch of the Canadian
Pacific railway stands ready TO welcome us
with elevated arms and receive the Yam
KEGS grain. The distance TO the
NEAEEST STATION,
Cherry creek, on that railway. Is about
forty miles, and by next winter it will
reach Deloraine, twelve miles north of the
boundary line, distance of only twenty
four miles from Bottineau. Already has
some of Bottineaus wheat been shipped
by way of Cherry creek. In live stock the
increase has been truly wonderful. In
June, 1885, the total number of horses.
mules. cattle, sheep and hogs was ., $50.
1t is now estimated TO be at least S, 900.
The southwestern part of the county is al
most entirely devoted to pastoral purposes.
II being in the famous Mouse river region.
where the timber affords excellent shelter.
and the rich nutritious grasses, the finest
hay during the winter but with the history
of the growth of Kansas and Nebraska be-
fore MS, it will not be long before the ranch
man and the cowboy must 60; for the
granger is getting them. and the mas
lures and the meadows that now constitute
the delight of the cattle breeder will soon
be surrounded by the shocks and the big
fields of the grain grower. The man with
the spurs. brOad-brimmed sombrero and the
glittering gun must ''git up and git" for
the man with
THE GANG PLow
broadcast seedeT. combination harvester
and putting steam thresher is "a comm"
The county seat and principal town of Bot
tineau county is Bottineau, and has already
ten buildings, consisting of a court house.
postofiice, hotel land another contracted
for), two first-cass general stores, a drug
store, blacksmith and wagon repair shop,
livery stable, the inevitable Pioneer
printing Office, and last but not least. a
school house. n. B. There is no gin mill
The spiritual, i'd est, religious wants of the
iaI he