Bismarck weekly tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1884-1943, 1891-08-28

assisting those who have been previ-
ously engaged. Sister Marcella will con-
tlnue at the head of the music depart
ment where she has proven herself a
most competent teacher.
Jas. Holes in Fargo Republican: The
usual time for killing frosts in this part
OF the country is from September 9TH to
September 18th. Ihave offered to bet
anywhere from $500 to $1,000 with the
moon men that we will have a frost at
the change of the moon the latter part of
this month. There is no danger of frost
for the next ten days. This is based on
twenty pears observation in this coun-
try.
Erie ( Pa. Daily Herald: Yesterday
afternoon Capt. D. W. Hutchinson re-
ceived a box of very fine potatoes by ex
press from his friend Judge Gray, of
Bismarck, North Dakota. They we're of
the Early Rose variety and no larger or
better potatoes we're seen in Erie. The
seed we're planted May 7th and dug
August 9TH. The captain presented the
business manager of the Herald with a
basketful of the potatoes.
Last summer Superintendent McCabe
began riprap work ION the bank of the
river about a mile above the Northern
Pacific bridge where the river current
turns and washes against the west shore.
Considerable stone were placed along
the bank and it was thought the bank
would wash no more. The high water
this spring, however, washed the bank
badly above the work of last summer
and now the riprap will be extended on
up the river about eighty rods or to the
bend in the river. It will take a good
many car loads of stone and quite a gang
OF men will be employed. The stones
are placed in the river first and a regu-
lar wall about two feet thick on an angle
of about sixty-fve degrees laid up the
bank to the top. The riprap when
completed will cover nearly a mile of
bank.
Hay is selling on theylocal market at
Deer Lodge, Montana, from $12 to $14
per ton, and the Montana Farming and
Stock Journal says: "The Deer Lodge
valley crop is fully 80 per cent. greater
than that of any recent year. Ranchers
say that the best disposition that can be
made of the surplus is to feed it and
there is a fair prospect that the cattle
industry, so woefully crippled in this
section the past three years, will expert
ence an immediate revival. Such a re-
suit would be the best possible thing
for the country that could happen"
The difference in the price of hay may
help to account for the large herds of
cattle brought from Montana to Dakota
this year. The price of hay in North
Dakota ranges from So to SIS per ton de-
llvered and the cattle are several hun
dred miles nearer market.
Arthur A. B%rundage, editor of the
Dawson Standard, has issued a neat cir.
cular to pleasure seekers, in which he
says: "Our numerous beautiful lakes,
fairly swarming with water fowl, our
boundless ranges, teeming with deer and
antelope, furnish unlimited shooting to
the lover of that kind of sport. To these
may be added the broad fields of waving
grain, which, as they respond to the &C
ton OF the gentle zephyrs, seeming to
nod a grateful acknowledgment of a
healthful nativity, and the generous
nourishment of a heavy soil and climate,
the beautiful coteau ranges and their TO-
mantle valleys, covered with their car
pets of green verdure, the broad mead
ows, lying under a mass Of waving grass,
specked with the most beautiful and fra
grant blossoms, all present a sight of
which the eye never tires, nor the mind
cease to contemplate the fact that it is
the u~ndeveloped garden spot of the uni
verse.
A Burleigh county farmer: I see COL
onel Nettleton is having quite a time
finding the great artesian stratum, so we
can irrigate and have good crops. The
colonel had ought to go back to Wash
ington and write a book on what he
don't know about North Dakota. I lived
in Iowa when it was a new country and
we had dry weather there. In Wiscon-
sill we had frosts for thirteen years
sometimes killing the entire crop. Now
we have had drouth in North Dakota,
but did you ever really study out the
principle laid down for irrigation? Well,
let us look at it. There are hills and ra-
vines and I want to tell you it can never
be made a success in a grain-raising
country where the land is utilized. It
will do we'll enough in fruit-raising coun-
tries where only a few acres are needed,
and that in the valleys. It cannot be
made a success here in North Dakota.
What wells there are in the state are
continually getting choked up. Look at