Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-07-04
What N. N. Gorsuch, Veteran Soldier
as Well as Farmer. Has
Accomplished.
Peter Cox, the Mike Mayouck Land
and August Walter, the Pioneer
Bismarck Brewer.
Pleasant Hill Farm.
n. n. GORSUCH.

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moved to Stryker, Williams county, O.,
where, during the war, he and two BROTH
ers enlisted in the union army. One of his
brothers died in the service and the other
became a captain n is still living. The
subject of this sketch served in Co. c, 3Sth
Regt. o. V. l., under Col. E. C. Bradley, a
Mexican war veteran, who, on the first
call for three-months troops by Abraham
Lincoln, organized a company and joined
the 14th Ohio, commanded by Col. Jas. Is.
Steedman. This was the writer's old reg
iment. Both commanders are now dead.)
At Toledo, O., on returning from the three
months campaign, Col. Bradley organized
the 3Sth for three years service. With this
regiment Mr.. Gorsuch served until dis
charged for disability. In 1884 he, with his
wife and four sons, moved to Burleigh
county, Dakota, and settled on the south
east quarter of section 22-l40-78. 1t is now
known as Francis township. Two of his
sons have since taken claims in the same
neighborhood.
Mr.. Gorsuch has had poor success in
grain r%aising-one good crop, but had little
make much, and two very poor; yet he has
bravely persevered and this season has in
crop Is acres of wheat, % of rye, IL of bar
ley, IL of corn, 80 of oats and 80 of millet,
this is on his " and his sons land
8 of potatoes and a garden. His grain is
brought to the county were stolen, yet by
raising on shares and trading he has &C.
quired a good start in stock, having thirty
three head Of cattle, including the young
stock and spring calves; also has two
mares with colts. he has a comfortable
house and barn, a well, and can also get
water at Apple creek, which heads in that
section He has Soma RNccion mrIhorru
planted near the house that bore fruit last
year. They grow here but l think they
will be a dwarf tree.
Rain water is what we want to be as
sured of crops. 1t seems to me that it
would be a good plan for either adjoining
build a number of dams at the right points
In all our small streams, where che water
that now is running down to the gulf
could be held back in basins or pools, form
ing so many small lakes. This would aid
in stock raising-would moisten land
which, without water, becomes dry and
hard 1t would be SO many tire-breaks. It
undoubtedly create heavy dews if it did
not draw rain storms. Around these pools,
basins and lakes the flying cottonwood
seed would fall. terminate and grow. The
willow, box elder, elm, ash and oak could
be planted and they would grow to rein
1OISC Wig W0tC1 1O1CCo w UIdW more
but nae'fi / believe WeS it ali the un sa tnls'
Mr.. Gorsuch has named his farm "Pleas-
ant HILL" and would be pleased to have
any of his old comrades and acquaintance
who pass that way to stop. "Its a good
farming and stock country out here, when
we get rain. The drought did not affect
ing. Hay is a necessity-it needs water.
The pools would help this out. The
scarcity of hay forced US to millet raising.
It has been found a good yielding and
feeding crop. This will be a great hay
year and we will have a big crop of millet
to hold over for spring feeding. Stop when
you come out to Francis"
cannot pass this case without comment.
This aged veteran soldier farmer is a pen
sioner of the United States government
for the tritling sun of two dollars per
mOnth-that he is allowed a pension of
even this small amount is evidence of the
service, of the disability and the merits of
they been using? Who is it that does this
fine Italian fguring-to allow a disability
pension and fix it at an amount so small
that one good Allcock's porous plaster
would be a greater relief? I hope the days
for m~onkeying with meritoriOus veterans is
oyer. Hang out the sign "closed to all" or
make the amount large enough to help the
veteran and be creditable to the nation
bearing the title United States of America.
PETER COX-EX SOLDIER.
Peter Cox came from Westmeath, Ire
land; his wife, to use her W words:
From the county of Kilkenny, where
they burn coal without smoke"
They reside on the southwest quarter of
section 4-138-79, 160 acres. Peter served
in the Eleventh regiment U. S.. regulars
for five years. On receiving his discharge
at Fort Bufurd in 1877, with $500 in his
pocket, he filed on the land-the second
settler in the township. He has in crop
forty acres of wheat, five of oats, five Of
millet and one of potatoes; has twenty
head of cattle and a team. They sell their
cream to the creamery. Have the oldest
house and barn in the comfy. 1t is truly
"a little claim shanty under the brow Of
the hill"
Peter has a fancy for old rejected rail-
road ties. He goes for all that is thrown
away. He has built a kind of a stockade
barn OF them, uses them for posts and fuel
and wind breaks. They have a bright lit
goes to school, and Miss Shelton speaks
we'll OF his neatness. conduct and aptness
at learning.
They took your special for a yankee
peddler" and did not 60 far estray. With
true native hospitality l was invited to
otOp dllu lave d 'DlJe 10 ear" ana an lnVl-
tation was extended to Railways call when
passing by"
On the U. S. discharge parchment D
that Peter holds with pride are written in
a bold hand the words, character good:
THE MIKE MAYoUCK LAND.
About three miles east of Bismarck,
Mike Mayouck, now in the state of Wash
ington, owns, or did own, and farm two
quarters on section S2-1s9 "a. Mr.. D. B.
Falck, with his wife and six children,
moved down from Mclean county, where
they resided for several years. They
rented the Mayouck land. They have a
crop-24 acres Of wheat, 8 of rye, 4 of corn,
9 of millet, ! Of potatoes and a garden. Mr..
Falck is watching IN adjoining piece be-
longing to an attorney in this city, for the
use Of the plowed land. Mr.. Falck is no
IN debt and owns two teams. He owns
land in Mclean county. He wanted to be
nearer market, so came down to this land
near the railroad. The. outlook for a good
yield from the land is now favorable,
While the writer was glad to hear that
this family is not in debt and to see a
promise of a crop, he was not pleased at
the sight of five small children down in a
muddy, weedy garden pulling weeds.