Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-08-15
SHOkI
Of Some of Burleigh COunty's Rep
r%esentative Pioneers and
Husbandmen,
-
And Snap Shots From a Blackboard
at Their Buildings, Crops
and Cattle.
By the Tribune's Special Core
spOndent on His Journey
Through
Boyd, Teller and Other Towns.

On H Blackboard, Aug. 1~S.-[Special.l
Jacob c. Peterson of Apple Creek wv
ship has a very comfortable home and SO
acres in crop. He will get about a half
crop. He is a hard worker.
VIM. NJ. Edwards is of Welch origin:
has a wife and four children; lives in south
Apple Creek township; has so acres in
crop; his wheat is very good, millet and
oats fair-about half crop and all cut.
Chicken hunters are out early in the
the morning; met three set before 6 o'clock
Saturday. Poor crop and bad shots.
John Beal of Teller township was a
union soldier during the war; came to Bur-
leigh county in 1882. lie has one of the
best farms in the county and is a hard
worker. Ills wheat was the best 100 acres
| have seen this season. Everything about
the farm is neat and straight.
Ed. c. Taylor of Teller has a good farm.
He is great on log houses: has eight build
ings-alI of logs; his cattle and horse she
will hold 500 people; his grain is all in the
stack. Taylor, his wife and son are rus
tiers. They are not light weights either,
the three weighing $50 pounds. Mr.. Tay-
lOr came from the Green mountain state
He says of Teller: ave never lost a crop
down here. Even last season we got I
bushels.' Beautiful view here.
Donald Stewart of Stewartdalc has cut
his wheat. 1t will yield 7 or S bushels. 1t
is diScouraging.
The Campbell boys have cut their wheat.
1t will go IS to 90 bushels.
Miss Lizzie Jones opened school in the
North Fclfer district. near Burts, Monday,
the 18th.
Rufus UIIum opened school in the
south Boyd district, Monday, the 18th inst.
They had a light frost through parts of
Teller and Boyd a week ago Sunday.
Q. II. Beal has his oats and wheat in
stack and harvested a fair crop. o. Fl. has
go head of horses and so hogs. He is hay
ing. Millet and corn is a fair yield.
Harry Smith OF Sibley, a four year vet
cram Union soldier, has 200 fine grade
sheep; his crop is late and will Yield poor
! ly. He and his wife want to 60 east. Their
home is under the shadow OF Sibley Butte,
a great range.
MI. Melton joins Smith on the east. He
is raising cattle. His grain crop is late.
These are the two last farms i'm the north
east part OF Sibley; a fine grazing country
and no one to bother them out there.
If you want to know how to build a sod
barn, go out to George Watson's in Logan
township. He has two of the largest and
haST in fhn nnInfvs yVntnfs at Hnnrs Cl0 fans
Of hay in stack. He and his SQUARE death to
ducks and geese, Mckenzie Lake atfording
them a fine field for sport, and they en-
joy it.
Acres of sand hill cherries out in eastern
Boyd township.
Joseph Allen lives in the eastern part of
Sibley town; has 500 sheep, and every con-
vience for conducting the business; he is
not raising grain extensively, only enough
for feed and seed.
Col. Allen and wife, the father and
mother of George, live adjoining on the
same farm. 1t makes a happy family.
Old Colonel Allen is of English birth, also
his wife. He followed mining for many
years, and he is a very we'll read man and
is a good entertainer. The Allen ranch is
PioDaoie lne oeoI uaIu[dl IocdlioH Ill lne
country, water. hay, open country for
miles east and north, and is situated on
the south banks of the creek, where no
snow can drift on their stock.
John Rogers of Sibley is one of the lead
ing farmers of the county. He has 400
acres in crop-2OO early seeded-and will
have a half all round crop. He is working
into stock; has a good start and is building
one of the most substantial barns in the
county. His first story is of solid masonry,
made of boulders. He will run a horse
power thresher this fall. His wife is not
altogether satisfied with Dakota. The
grass changes color too quick, she wants it
to remain green at least sixty days. They
are very comfortably fixed and propose to
keep that way.
Mrs. Boyd opened school in the south
Mckenzie district last Tuesday.
Uncle Tom Richards of Logan has an
old fashioned farm and home. His is one
of the largest farms in the county. Every
body around the place was at work; has
several stacks of hay. machines in oats
and wheat, house full all the time. He
has been successful in grain raising, and
has turned his earnings into stock; has a
large herd out on the range. His wheat
ouu ooVo Will yAC1u 1dllly-uOU a UUUlu
crop; has a fine growth of trees Oh his
claim.
The Hibbs farm is a model one-8OO
acres, 400 under fence; crops only fair; a
beautiful grove at the house, also a tree
claim in extra good shape. He is working
into cattle and has 100 head.
Logan township will average 10 to Is
bushels of wheat for the early sown, the
late much less.
George Brooks of Logan has a twenty
five acre piece of wheat that will go 20
bushels. George commenced with nothing
and now has a good farm, house, and fine
bunch OF cattle and is out of debt.
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