The Dickinson press., 1902-12-13
Stark County interests a.
Told by a Tribune
Reporter.
THRIVING BUSINESS BEING
DONE IN VARIOUS LINES OF
INDUSTRY.

THRIVING BUSINESS BEING
DONE IN VARIOUS LINES OF
INDUSTRY.
Stark county still holds the ribbon as
the banner stock country of the { st
Missouri country, and the cattle, sheep
and wool shipments from Dickinson this
season have been larger than from
any other point in the state.
Among the successful stockmen at
this point Geo. Harkins constitutes a
conspicuous figure, for having for three
successive years topped the Chicago
market for western steers. This sea-
son out of 100 head shipped a selection
of sixteen head brought within a few
cents of 500 per head. Mr.. Harkins
was formerly a Kidder county wheat
grower, who after repeated crop failures
concluded to make a change, and some
twelve years ago went out on the Can
non Ball with twenty head of COWS as
his sole worldly possessions. He nov
has one OF the best equipped and most
favordblv located ranches in western
North Dakota, and SON e 400 head of
good cattle. 1t should be mentioned
hcre-and farmers and stockmcn will do
we'll to make a note of the fact-that a
large degree of MIR. Harkins' success has
been due to the fact that he has kept
nothing but the best cattle, and i, is I'D
his expenditures for we'll bred sires have
been more liberal than any of his neigh
bors.
MI. c. c. Mead, one of Mr.. Harkins'
%neighbors, has also had almost phenon'-
email success. MIR. Mead combines sheep,
cattle and horses, and while he is an Ell
thusias,ic and careful sheep breeder, al.
though he did not succeed in reaching
the high top OF Mr.. Harkiis with his
cattle shipment this ye, r, his eighty
head averaged slightly higher than was
obtained by the formers 100 head. Ter
years & Mr.. Mead was pssisting in the
publication of the Dickinson Press, but
as he had been brought up midst a rur,
environment, in central Vermont, where
the high price of lands creclndes tn.
possibility of keeping anything but tn,
best in live stock, he SCOT saw and real
lied the possibility of success with righ1
I methods in the fertile valleys and on tn,
. rich grasses of the Bad Lands. Mr.. Meat
has accumulated quite a comfortable
. estate, of which a majority who have re
: manned in the journalistic field canno
! boast.
Nor does the live stock industry con
stitute all OF Dickinson and Star
county's prosperity. Although little es
teemed by many as a farming propose
ton the lands of Stark county have thi
= year proven Of marvellous f%ecundity, a
the extreme activity in the grain mai
kets of her towns abundantly prove
The elevators at Dickinson have alread
taken in some 10000 bushels of whea
n and when it is realized that the threst
ing season is but just ended it will b
readily seen that much more is to com,
d The Dickinson Pressed Brick plant, tn
@ largest in the state, has had a season
unusual activity, and its products ar
finding a ready market in all parts of tn
northwest.
81 During the past season many new an
If handsome residences have been addet
and the new Catholic church edifice, tn
B. - largest in the state west of Fargo, tn
3 corner stone of which was but recent
le laid, is rapidly approaching completio,
p; Gladstone is one OF the prosperol
!, smaller towns in Stark county. In tn
vicinity there has been an abunda,
yield this season of all kinds of sma
:. grain, which finds a market at the flo,
" mill and elevator. The former of II
T. barrels capacity is conducted BY M
Geo. w. Lee, and the latter by JUL,
Hoist, who in connection with his graz
business conducts a lumber yard an
farm implement agency.