The Washburn leader., 1899-10-07

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while the .quaw "r aint corn growing
,hick on the ground would make forty
bushels aud ofter pr"iuos. more. The
uenple here are thriving and a prosper-
I.,ua condition prevails thrOu .hout the en
|tire locality.
Saturday morning the oath. we started
overland for Wa.h,urn. tiftv miles north
uf Bismarck and for twenty miles of this
lriva W found :hs land about the same
~ around Bismarck. Fair crops, god
,rass and a para dise for stock mon, but
ON reaching the Washburn lands lying of
TO the east of the MisaOuri river, there WAS
a pleasant anrprise awaiting M. General
settlements. with good farms prevailed
on every aide and the entire c"untrv had
that pros 2erous appearance that mnde
one think a large sectio' of Iowa had
been bodily picked up and carried north
ward along the Missouri and dropped in
the beat location of M:Lsan county. Hay
making aea.on was ON and all we're busy
With the work of caring for II heavy crop
while AGRA after acre was bearing as good
y crop ~ could he found in many miles "f
travel The climate in inviynrating
yiving Tint tone and energy to life that
makes the blood thrill and rrnews the
.ppetlt. in wonderful way. All through
t;.is section there il rich deep s"il that
raises excellent wheat and all small
grains. That the people living hero are
.atlsfitd and pleased goes without the
aging and when you ask them to price
he land they reply that it is not for sale
~ they do not wish to leave. There is All
abundance of good coal. not 40 heavy
1uite n. the Iowa coal but it. is clean and
rom eighteen to twenty feet. These lands
IRE more valuable for tiIling than for pas
urave hence We found that tho cattle
we're all back On the ranges. where they
lo we'll all winter with the living they get
rom the ranges except ON those rare
nccasiOns when heavy and continuous
|
hem hay, and to meet these possibl- emer-
.-ncis. the farmers put up hay for which
n any times they have no use and sell it
.eadily in the spring. with this abundance
II hay, With much running water and al
abundance If water o,tainRbls any " here
t not to exceed thirty feet they have
1 uk,~h ksN 0hno 1v
rsies ready for market ~ go"d stock AZ
inds its way to the marts "f trade.
The lands hare are practically all sett-
ID except this large tract know ~ the
vashburn lands which we're oniy thrown
open last year and are now being eagerly
sought.
Grading on a new railroad. branch "i
the So" line from Bismarck to Waahbnrn
8 rapidly gong on aud the country is
:nteriny on an era IF prosperity and
developement that mems money for th',se
who buy lands there now. Nearly every
member of our entire party purchased
from quarter to a half o*ion.
some parties VIII" owned land adjoining
the Washburn tract and Who have cared
10 sell have mnch more than dOubled thei:
| money t,y such sales made in the last few
weeks. Lands of such quality If located
n Iowa woul,i readily bring from forty to
ifty dollars per acre. and the deveIope-
mont of this country. the coming of rail
~ SsAn s,S1
,ive value of these lands beyond even
1.-The sx psctstinms Of the most aanguine.
Que man tod us that csttle that only
|co t him $l2 per head to rear. fatten and
|g ready f"r market sold for from fifty
Ito sixty dolars.vhils it's an ideal country
for sheep aud the sheep owners maintain
that's even more profitable than cattle
and many men who take sheep ON the con-
tract of the ,,sual share of the incr-ase
make from thirty to fifsy per osnt ou the
Mr.. Brenton on being qnestioned fur
ther made this statement.
"3peaking for myself personally I will
say that had M idea Of finding snch
valnss in these lands as found. aud while
g 80. Q. HeatOn. of Perry. has sOId many
acres pf good north Dakota lands aud
assisted manv people in securing hOmes
',n easy terms have no dOnbt but thsse
are the best he has yet offered. have
made my statemeuts abont this country
in conservative way not overdrawing
the situation and am convinced that
there are many opportunities for good
there.
With Landscape that !. beautiful tn
the eve, with an inviyoratiux atmosphere
and roads that are unsurpassed they have
many advantages that will assist 10 qniok-
~ settling up this unoooupied onuntry {.
With people of good citizenship, in
telligent and energetic settled all around
it is no longer the frontier away from
civilization, it is already land Of pleas
ant homes The wintess are not nearly ~,
severe Is one might suppose and with the
dry crisp atmosphere they tell me they
Withstand the cold bstter than hero IN
Iowa. It ia locality in which, y man can
easily get good start with little means,
. start that will soon mean a. competence
aud independence with schools and