Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-11-24
STARK COUNTY INTERESTS.


THRIVING BUSINESS BEING DONE
IN VARIOUS LINES OF INDUS
TRY.
Stark county still holds the ribbon
as the banner stock country of the
west Missouri country, and the cattle,
sheep and wool shipments from Dick
i, inson this season have been the larg-
est than for any other point in the
state. ,a.
Among the successful stockmen ut
this point George Harkins constitutes
a conspicuous figure, for having for
| three successive years topped the Chi
cago market for western steers. This
season out of 100 head shipped selec-
tion of sixteen head brought within
few cents of 500 per head. Lir.
Harkins was formerly Kidder county
| wheat grower. who after repeated crop
failures concluded to make a change.
and some twelve years ago went ,ut
On the Cannon Ball with twenty head
Of COWS as his sole worldly possessions.
He now has one of the best equipped
and most favorably located ranches in
western North Dakota; and some 400
head of good cattle 1t should be
mentioned here-and farmers and stock
men will do well to make note of the
fact-that large degree of Mr.. Haw-
kins success has been due to the fact
that he has kept nothing but the best
cattle, and it is said his expenditures
for we'll bred sires have been more lib
eral than any of his neighbors.
Mr.. c. c. Mead, Mr. Harkins' nearest
neighbcr, has also had almost phenom-
email success. Mr. Mead combines
sheep, cattle and horses. and while he
is an enthusiastic and careful sheep
breeder, although he did not succeed
in reaching the high top of Mr.. Har-
kins with his cattle shipment this year,
his eighty head averaged slightly
higher than was obtained by the for
mers 100 head. Ten years ago MI.
Mead was assisting in the publication
of the Dickinson Press. but as he had
been brought up midst rural environ
ment, in eastern New York. where the
high price of lands precludes the pos
sibility of keeping anything but the
best in live stock, he soon saw and
realized the possibility of success wit
right methods in the fertile valleys
and on the rich grasses of the Bad
Lands. MIR. Mead has accumulated
quite a comfortable estate, of which a
majority who have remained in the
journalistic field cannot boast.
Nor does the live stock industry con-
sritute all of Dickinson and Stark
county's prosperity. Although little
esteemed by many as farming prop
osition the lands of Stark county have
this year proven of marvellous fecuad-
ity. as the extreme activity in the grain
markets of her towns abundantly
prove. The elevators at Dickinson
have already taken in some 10000
bushels of wheat and when it is real
lied that the thre!shing season is but
just ended it will be readily seen that
much more is to come.
The Dickinson Pressed Brick plant,
the largest in the state, has had a sea-
son of unusual activity, and its pr3-
ducts are finding a ready market in all
parts of the northwest.
| During the past season many new
and handsome residences have been
added, and the new Catholic church
edifice the largest in the state west Of
Fargo, the corner stone of which was
but recently laid is rapidly approach
ing completion.
| Gladstone is one of the prosperous
smaller towns in Stark county. In
this vicinity there has been an abun-
dant yield this season of all kinds of
small grain, which finds a market at
the flour mill and elevator. The for
mer of 100 barrels capacity is con-
ducted by Mr.. Geo. W. Lee, a d the
latter by Julius Hollst, who in connec-
ton with his grain business conducts
a lumber yard and farm implement