Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-06-20
BISMARCK WEEKLY TRIBUNE: FRIDAY. JUNE 20, 1890.

.uS ' ouoolaitlld! OTluRe IHaG spans
the ravine this side Of the memorable Car.
nahan club rooms. Canadian is not on the
verandah to greet our arrival with "will
you have your team put in the barn or pic.
eted." So we drive on to the Merchants
where tall cheerful John Saterlund wills.
pers stop and have your team put up
The next station is twenty miles away and
its late and looks like raining, that settled
it, and the Merchants was our headquar.
tiers while in the county seat of the county
OF Mclean, q name that all old timers will
say sounds familiar. Where is Hon. John
A. Mclean of Burleigh?
A PICTURESQUE VALLEY
S. A. Peterson Of Painted Woods, post
master, merchant, assessor and farmer,
has his residence, store and farm in the
most picturesque little valley between Bis.
marck and Fort Buford. S. A. has resided
in this beautiful valley twelve years. The
family consists of himself, wife and four
children. ave have found this a very
healthy climate. l have built up and still
hold a very good trade in general mer-
chatdlse. My crop this year is twenty
owo acres OF wheat, ten OF oats, twelve OF
corn, ten OF mlllet and W OF potatoes. l
have thirteen head of cattle, eight head Of
horses and a good supply Of pigs and
fowls. l cannot complain of the country
or my surroundings. The settlement is as
prosperous as any on the Missouri slope.
The last two or three years it has been
nip and tuck to make both ends meet, but
they have had a fair yield of corn and veg
etables aud their increase in stock, with
plenty of wood at their doors, has helped
them out. We have a fine school here.
Miss Matilda Oleson is the teacher. Our
children learn English easily and event
u!aliiy that will be our language, They
had a wedding here Sunday the 8th-Gus
Brostrom to Mis- Christine Holmberg, S.
ing.
ON HI RIVER FRONT. "-
Oliver Peterson, the U. s. enumerator
for the Painted Woods district, has a
choice piece of land on the river front.
His improvements are very neatly ar
ranged and built. He is an old resident
and has not thOughl of leaving. "ThiS
country is good enough for me. l have
fifty acres in crop, wheat, corn, oats, mil
let and potatoes. My stock is doing we'll
and the hay crop outlook never was better.
This is a very pleasant place to live. We
boats going up and down. Timber for
building, fencing and fuel We have in
abundance. The p~Ostoffice, store, passing
stages, school and church are advantages
that we appreciate
ON PAINTED WOODS CREEK.
Ole Oleson on Painted Woods creek has
800 acres of very rich land. 1t is rolling
prairie. He has resided here nine years
His crop is sixty acres of wheat. six OF
oats, seven of corn, five of millet and one
OF potatoes; has a number of head of cattle
"The outlook is much better this yeal
than for three wears pQnnnt pOmnlain
l have a good home and my farm will be
all right if we get plenty of rain"
Frank r. Peterson has 100 acres east OF
the Oleson place. The family includes
himself, wife and three children. ''Oul
health has been good. I have in Mint
and n of potatoes. The dry seasons dis
couraged me, but the heavy rains of this
spring changes the face of things"
ON TOWARDS ECKLUND.
John A.Johnson holds down and is improv
ing on section l9-142-80, la acres. He la.
sown and planted so acres of wheat, 20 O
oats, 10 of millett, 10 of corn, 3of potatoe:
and a variety of vegetables. II have hat
poor crops three years in succession, still
have managed t. live and save my stock
the ridge and will have a level road after
this 1t rained here more during the frs
week in June than during all the two Dasl
years. What are you going to do on the
Fourth at Bismarck? If 1 could afford it
would bring my family down to see the
circus"
John Frosbeck owns 1850 on section
20-l42-80. Has lived here for sever
years. Married while in this country
"My mother resides with US. She is eighty
years old and is very active for M of hel
age. l am glad that I can have her witt
us in our home. l have put in IS acres this
season-most everything you can think of
are doing well: l hope the dry seasons are
gone to stay. It's hard to work and MOI
get a CROP"
John Alfred Johnson settled on his quar-
ter of section 2O-142-80. seven years ago
Il have in rs acres of wheat, IL of oats, II
of corn, 5 of millett. l of potatoes. l have
a garden of peas, r%uta-bagas and all kinds
and we are trying a few sheep. do hope
we will get a crop this year. The climate
the location, our health is all right, but
can't make anything without we get a r
The rain last night was very heavy, see
how full of water the slough is"
THE COAL TRAIL.
Six miles east of Mercer's, on the ridg,
or divide between the table lands and thu
river slope, the trail from S. A. Peterson
store leads into a trail that has been mad,
by settlers drawing coal from the tw'
mines or veins that have been opened ant
are being worked. At the intersection O
these two trails, on sec. 1O-142-SO lives Johl
Boot and his wife and five children. H,
has lived here four years. He has twenty
acres in crop and is breaking more lan(
with a yoke of oxen, using a twelve-incl
pillow. 1t takes more nerve and a strOnge
will to go into the country and carve out
farm from the raw prairie as Johl
Boot has been doing than it does to enlis
for active service during a war. 1t mus
not be forgotten that it will be through tn
labor and privation that this determined
father is making and the thousands tina
are doing, or will do, the same that Nortl
Dakota will be made a prosperous state.
His nearest neighbor is John Johnston
formerly of New York state, a veteran
union soldier Of five years. service, who
single-handed and alone, has taken sold
ier's homestead and a tree claim and bull
his house and barn, broken and cultivated
fifteen acres. He is now sixty-three, year
old and every day is at work among tn
vegetables or making improvements.
I will give you something about McLeal
county in my next.
OFF For Fargo.
r from Tuesdays Daily,l
The Bismarck fire department left TO
FARGO on the S.O5 train last evening. 'rh