The Washburn leader. [volume] (Washburn, McLean County, N.D.) 1890-1986, 1897-10-02

Fort Berthold TO be cared for by the
management.
TT. Stevenson to be Seld.
By referance to another column of this
paper it will be seen that the largo rom.
nant of the military and Indian school
buildings now standing upon the Fort
Stevenson military reservation will bs Of
fered at public sale, December 1sth-l1
weeks from this date.
The question occurs to us-is this date
of sale the passing of Fort Stevenson
the indistinct record of a "has been" or .
glimpse of brighter dawn of what 1t is
of be.
From the day that sully's army camped
upon the miry banks of the Douglass in
1854, military officers aud other men of
deserving minds conceded that the bench
land between the Douglass and Snake
creeks would mark point Of future i'm
portance in the developmen9 Of the coun-
try at this dlverginR course of the great
Missouri. And two years later military
board of survey selected site for mill
tary post on this benchland and named it
Fort Stevenson.
Though in the twenty-one years that
followed OF military occupation the war
dogs seldom barked from parapet or port
hole-the sentry at his box or beat had to
but fear the 10y shafts from grimvisagsa
stuped and lifeless soldiers OF.
the green or in quarters had but to fear
the doctored bottle or the embraces of
red painted syrens who skirted the will
lows as do brownies IN haunted woods
Nor had the officers ought to fear more
than the fall of their pride or perchance
subtle lntrigues from the partners of their
bosom. Yet, for all that, Fort Stevenson
ssrved we'll the purpose for which it was
The post was abandoned by the mill
tary and fitted up for an lndustrel aud
traioing school for Indian children in
1885, and evacuated after the burning two
years ago, since which time such build.
ings as escaped the oonaagration as we'll
as oontigous timber and reservation lanes
have been at the tender mercy and vlgilant
sye of various warders subject to the
authority of the Indian and
Interior Office proper
The waters of the Douglass empty into
The Missouri about half mile west of the
post. On the low bottom lands of th
Douglass was tho military garden whore
The discovery was drst observed that po-
katoes raised on certain bottom lands Of
The Missauri, had finer favor than pota-
toes raised anywhere else in the world,
not excepting the fertile pocksts of the
crimson Andesn shales. These garden.
we're enlarged to fields unde' auspices of
the Indian school management aud great
crops of grain and vegetables were raised | |
Dursng the present season Alfred stsley
has harvested bouutiful crop Of oats, and
had hs NOT have whacked up With too
many crows and black kbirds-could have
had an extraordinary large yield Of corn.
The table lands stretching between the
Douglass and snake creek ss the surveyor
talks, is eight miles. That streteh Of Land
land is Typographical wonderland will
be worth mint Of money II the right
parties get hold of 1t. An incline plain
1 miles long BY. 2 miles broad sloping
back from the Missouri make IL the finest
experimental river irrigation farm TO be
found in the two Dakotas. The new and
cheap method Of river windmill irrigation
now su,oessfully carried on in western
Kansas and Nebraska. If applied to this
tract insure nsver.failing crops that
would make even sardonic tax gath,
ersr smile in the regularity Of the put.
up.
Germany come ont With q feather il the
late Turko. .oFsciea war.