Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1890-07-25
The Tribune's Special Correspond
ent's Trip Through the Central
Portion of the County.
The Crops East Of Bismarck Look
ing Well-The MenOken Farm
ers Busy Haying.
What Farmer, StOckman, Store.
keeper and Postmaster Scoyil
is Doing in Mckenzie.
Another Glorious Army Record.

MCKENZIE, July 16.-[Special.] Last
wednesday your special started on a trip
through the central and eastern townships
OF Burleigh county. l found grain on the
Quinlan and Boyle farms rapidly maturing
and promising a good yield. August Wal
ters' crop is very fine; Peter Cox was rush
ing the hay into stack, and his corn is grow
ing an inch a day. Peter has an idea that
he can raise hogs like cattle or sheep, by
pasturing them during the summer and
feeding them in the fall. He says he will
try 100 this season. The Fields, Price,
Scrlbner and Shelton grain, corn and po-
tatoes never looked better. The Memo
ken farmers are haylng. Some have
summer fallowed land that was not
seeded. Al through thecounty L
ing and summer fallOwed land. On enter
ing Mckenzie township my attention was
drawn to the hundreds of fine hay meadows
and bottoms. Hundreds of tons can be
put up here. | called on
&. F. sCovIL
at the station. He has a store, is post
master, buys and ships grain, potatoes,
eggs and butter. His farm is on the south
west quarter of section 28.l39-77. He set
tied here in 1882. His father came at the
same time and they jointly opened and
carried on their farms. He has had the
same experience as other grain farmers
good crops and good prices, poor crops and
high and low prices. The crops have III
the aggregate carried him through. In 1887
he decided to try stock and not SO much
grain. He now has a good start-ffty
head OF cattle. He fattens several head of
cattle. His wife makes several hundred
pounds of butter annually. She has a
large number of fowls and, like many
pleasure.
SO 1t is with MI. Scovil. His farm, store,
postotfice, shipping grain and produce
keeps him boiling along. lie has
comfortable home and barn, a good well of
soft pure water, only 26 feet deep. His
Crum ii, 1888 shipped 2l,OOO busheles of
wheat; in 1889. $4,000 bushels. He has
shipped several Car loads OF Dakota pota-
toes to Illinois where they consider them
better than home raised; in 1889, he ship
ped 1000 doZ. eggs. 1000 lbs. butter and
several cars of baled hay. Their 1890 crops
are good they are in good spirits and LOOK
working their farms and raising stock.
A GOOD WAR COR
l was invited to stay to dinner, and
while at the house l discovered a memorial
roll of honor of service in the war. So the
interview and conversation turned to that
subject. E. F. Scovil was born of farmer
parents, in Mason county, ILL.,. in 1874. lie
was 16 wears old when the wal broke out.
Jnly Is, 1852, he enlisted in company c.
captain, Samuel Black-Eighty-ffth regi-
ment, Illinois infantry, colonel, Robert S.
Moore. After thorough drill and complete
equipment at Peoria. the regiment was or
dered to the front. At Louisville a brigade
composed of the Fifty~second Ohio, Eighty
fifth, Eighty-SiXth and One Hundred and
TWenty-ifth Illinois was formed and Col
onel Dan McCook placed in command.
McCook belonged to the famous fighting
family of father and six sons, and it the
reader will refer to history as he reads this
communication the nature of the service
MIR. ScOvil rendered will be better ascer-
tanned. Dan McCook's brigade was one of
the most active of the wal. He was an
lmpetuOus, brave leader, and led several
daring charges at critical times. He
achieved renOWn, and can justly give credit
to his men for their valOr. Without the
BRAVE, wELL-DRILLED AND DISCIPLINED
TROOPS
he had in his command the chances are
that he would not have won the, honors
that he did. From Louisville this brigade,
then in RuelPs army, moved out toward
Perryville, and were the first to be at
tackled in that battle. They were on the
Buell-Bragg march, and were at Nashville
when Gen. Rosecrans took command.
From here they moved on Murfreesboro.
They were in the two-days' battle where
the union forces lost in killed and wound
ed 5000 men. This was in mid-winter. It
rained and stormed daily. The gun ca
riages sank to the hubs and wagons block
AIDED the roads. The Stone river was bank
full. The battle is known as "Stone river,n
as the contending forces fought along its
banks and crossed and recrossed. It was
found difficult to get the supply train up
to the army, and in addition to the cold
and wet, hunger had to be endured. Sew
eral attempts to get the trains up failed.
Forrest and WheeIer's confederate cavalry
were constantly on their trail. They had
destroyed 500 wagons and burned the sup.
plies. McC00k's brigade were sent out to
bring in a train. and after
A DESPERATE RUNNING FIGHT
they succeeded, and Rosecrans army ate