New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1889-06-02

bluffs where good. thick surfaces seams have been
discovered. With this industry waiting 70 he
turned to profit, and with the great Missouri how-
Ing at her feet, Bismarck has no need 20 worry
about her future
The Missouri NJ Bismarck Il better behaved, on
the whole, than elsewhere along It's course 1t
rises 800 miles further north and west and occa-
sonnlly In the early spring when the Chinook
winds, sweeping across Northern Montana, melt
the ice and start rapid dow Of water. gorges ore
formed o. and around Bismarck, where the ice
remnins solid, and o Good Is brought oD But the
city, securely protected behind enormous bluffs,
CARDS this mIsdemennor ~ vrnial. The head9uar-
tiers Of the Missouri River Transportation Company
are here, and II has various establishments, shops
shpynrdS and freighi-h USES, down upon the first
bench ne the lowest slope OF land dearest the
river is called The company's freight-house is a
singular structure, IS feet wide and GOO feet long
To some people figures never convey much OF an
idea, and therefore will add that building IS
feet by 600 is about rs big building as is worth
while making in al this world Of human endeavor.
Two winters ago. the river, apparently dissatisfied
with the situation Of the building, quietly got up
one night and laid 10 on o buT some 200 feet
above Its original site end about 400 feet nesrer
the town. Then, having slowed some thousands
OF tons Of ice against the freighthouse TO keep 10
in place, the river lowered its back and swept
amiably IS before. There 10 q personality
about the Missouri and miscbIevous motive
about ito tascally performances that are highly
amusing The huge, unsightly STEAMBOATS, that
ply between g. Lonis and Bismarck, and then for
another thousand miles onward 70 Fort Benton.
carrying from sixty 10 two hundred tons
Of freight, draw only from two TO four feet OF
water! This is hand TO believe, but 10 IL fact
And even then, they win often get into trouble
They will he going placidly along whom suddenly
the river viii toss sandhar in their way. and they
win he buricd 10 mud and misery. But the In
genu!ty Of man has not failed TO provide for this
emergency Each stenmer is equipped with two
big poles These are let down into the mud and
water and by means Of ropes and pulleys the boat
Is hoistcd upon the poles out Of the stream. Then,
when the current to it's undoubted regret and an
noynnce, has washed away the sand, the steamboat
jsuntily proceeds. Nothing Is funnier than 20 see
a great, big boat pulling itself on top OF compile
OF crutches 70 cheat the snndbar II is an inter-
esting fact TINT sine the Northern Pacific
bridge was constructed across the Missouri
IL has shifted twenty-five lnches It's huge supports
arc buried below the river bottom upon bed
rock. but they have moved and TONS had almost
said a"r, OF earth have been dert sited around
them 20 assist in breaking the force Of the ice
gorGcs.
In closing. ms I do hcrr with, the story that has
been too fetly told OF the material condition and
the wonderful achieve ments Of the two Da kotas,
II may be desirable to collect few OF the more
eloquent facts in a single forceiul group The
population OF these sister States has come up In
eighteen years from 900 to 100000. In
twelve years the acreage acquired by actual settle
nent has been 4},oOn.nOn Tho first railroad
tnck was laid in 1872 To-day you can ride
5000 miles over steel rails within the boundary
lines of North and South Dakots. You can start
for your newly taken homestead on Monday and
can reach your Gnal destination In three days
without ever leaving your cnr You VIII hhd
your household goods on sidetraok waiting Tor
you and hy the next Monday you can be breaking
sod for your first crop, Conditions Gre not as
they were in the dnyx still vtvidy clear In hVinE
men : memories when the prairiea were only 70 be
crossed In wooden. " fe cled carts drawn by yoke
OF oxen and furnished with barrel OF hour IN
one end aud barrel OF water In the other 10
day there are IN pSscS E9 40 90 Sbssn
hogs They nps worth $50, 900, and 10 this
grand for 'une 10 per cent nocretton must IN
sddsd every year nus m M hsnnv ,rHsStiop
Of 100000 bushels Of corn 10000. goo oil Wnca|
100000 OF FAX, Ioo9o,o 600 OF barley a1,y%T"
the iuncrAl domain stretching from central point
900 miles north. east. south and west OF the
o6,O0O.ooO acres That constitute these STATES,
barely 1000, 0O0-less than ouc-thrteenth-have
felt the harrow's touch! Everywhere, In soc1l
life, In religious nfe, In political hfc, perfect
and liberal organization exists Wherever there
is a settlement the spires OF hsf doEen churchrS
rise and the bells OF hnf doTen schools sound
out Crime is scarcely heard OF In Dakota. ~
hns nothing that even family resembles crimi-
nal class There are hut two prisons In N" two
States that really look Ike prisons. and The IN
mates Of these nre only lnckleS' creatures VINO
cnnIdn't make things 90 and did n lttle pilferinS
% keep the wolf OF I SnUnose Won think THIS
sounds like a fnirv tne2 Well, think so mys"lf,
hut n is all the truth L. L. Q.