Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1902-02-22

country is ullueIldlu Will llSI1lIe COdl
and if a farmer cannot dig his own
fuel he has but to drive a short dis
lance to a point where he can have
all he can haul for IS cents to 81 a
load. This is a big item for the
farmer.
THE REASON FOR THIS ISSUE
This edition of the Bismarck Tri-
bune is issued because it pleases the
management so to do and it is hoped
it will please the public. The Bis
marck Tribune is the oldest newspaper
in North Dakota-having been cQntin-
uously and regularly issued as a
weekly, semi-weekly, t~ri-weekly, daily
land twice a day during the boom
period of 1889 since 1S73-and during
all that time it has been the aim of
the management to make the paper as
good as the people who read it. If
it has succeeded in SO doing that's
glory enough, for the people of Bis
marck and the Missouri slope are all
right. If one were allowed to deter
mine his future and select associates
with whom he desired to dwell
forever and the day following, there
would be a goodly number of Bis
marckers in the crowd. Bismarck
may not appear at times to be as en-
terprising as some enthusiasts might
desire but it must be remembered that
this city has had a great deal to con-
tend with in the past and it is only
recently that the clouds silver lining
has been visible in this section. In
the early days Bismarck was the jump
ing off place, so to speak. 1t was the
end of the Northern Pacific road from
1873 to 1879 and not until 1885 was
the golden spike driven marking the
completion Of this great transcontin-
entail line. 1t was the Quitting point
for Indian campaigns for many years
Criminals for hundreds of miles
around were brought here for justice
and court expenses of those early days
constitute a heritage that has been
burdensome to some extent but as the
country develops u wonderful ad-
vantages appear, until now it is doubt
full if in the state, or in the whole
country, better opportunities are Of
fered thrifty settlers and enterprising
business men than now obtain in the
great Missouri slope country directly
tributary to Bismarck.
Looking back a quarter Of a century
it is now very evident to the average
Bismarcker. who still survives that
period, that we we're then twenty-five
years ahead of the country in our ideas
our anticipations and our develop
ment. We have just arrived at the
milestone where we thought we were
twenty-five years ago. The men who
have struggled all these years-tht
men who went down into their pocket:
and put up 100000 to secure the cap
ital for Bisnarck-the men who hav'
successfully combatted all natural ant
unnatural obstacles and secured TO-
Bismarck the penitentiary, militar!
post and other public institutions ant
Headquarters of government officials
have not struggled in vain. Those VIII
survive TO- see the dawn of better
far better-days. Railroads are abou
to make of Bismarck an importan
commercial center and distributin;
point. The country surrounding i
beginning to respond literally to in
telligent cultivation and management
From mother earth's vast s%torehous
this section is being literally served
The Ignite coal industry-the dreaI
Of the courageous boomer Of twenty
five years ago-is nov a wealth-prc
ducing reality. In two years Ho1
W. D. Washburn, the leading spirit i
the new Bismarck, Washburn & Grea
Falls railway enterprise, has don
more to develop the native coal indus
try in this state than had been done i
all time previous-and still it is a
infant industry. The faction
known by our own people but not ur
til recently appreciated by the countr
at large-that the Bismarck and othe
North Dakota land districts compris
about the last of the arabic domain i
the whole United States is attractin
universal attention and land-seeker1
pleased with what they find in the wa
of free government and cheap railroa
lands, recede, like the waves Of tn
ocean, only to return with renewe
force, faith and neighbors to EMO
with them the lavish blessings {
North Dakota's health-giving an
wealth producing prairies.
On the first and third Tuesdays i
March, April and. May the Norther
Pacific will sell homeseekers tickle