Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1903-05-26
THE GATEWAY CITY OF
THE MISSOURI SLOPE
An Outside Impression of the Capital City
A Clean, Progressive and Well Cow
erned Community of Good Citizens.

In last Fridays Forum-with the
largest circulation of any daily in the
Bismarck and Burleigh county, written
by special emmissary of the Forum
who had been in the city several days
taking observations and collecting data
regarding the resources and develop |
ment of the Missouri slope country. |
The article is neatly illustrated with |
river, mining, stock and farm scenes,
and is very complete resume OF the
vast resources OF this state, and can
not fail to result in attracting atten
ton of eastern readers to the great ad
vaEtages of this section for pursuit
of agriculture and kindred industries.
Bismarck.
In writing of Bismarck the CORE
spondent says:
The future of Bismarck is assured
beyond question. Founded nearly 30
years since, it has become since the
great fire a city of solid substantial
1t has from it's superior location, been
accorded the capital of the state and
the state penitentiary-while the gov
ernment is completing next to Fort
Snelling) one of the finest military
| forts here of any in the northwest
Fort Lincoln. The U. S. weather
bureau, North Dakota section, is also
located at Bismarck in the most pic
turesque headquarters to be found in
the west Bismarck has a splendid
system of water works, the water sup
ply being taken from the Missouri riv-
er (soft water), the best in the United
States-and it's graded and high
schools. under the able management Of
Supt. William Moore. have attained a
state reputation Bismarck is in fact
clean, well governed city, with no
blind pigs, and a splendid class of citi
zens. When the new electric trolley
is instituted, it will have the most
complete urban and interurban city
railway system of any in North Da-
kota
Rural Developments.
For the past few years-since 1900
in fact-renewed attention has beer
given to the great possibilities inner
ent in the Missouri Valley as an agri
cultural country. Since the advent o
>, the Bismarck. Washburn & Great FALL
Railway few years since. and th
: coming of the 500 the tide of emigra
d tion has been immense, and lands hav
4 been rapidly taken in Burleigh, En-
. mons and Mclean counties. and tn
farming elements of the older states.
:. 1t is just as well to state here tha
the greater adaptability of this countr
for diversified farming is general
recognized and greater attention
!. paid to mixed farming-and it pays
The exclusive wheat raiser never forge
dudu II Is oHly NHcN ille ioiiie
raises grain, cattle, hogs, sheep mile
q COWS and engages in dairying tha
steady and substantial results follow
IL Every western state has gone through
the wheat raising period, but it wa
II only when diversified farming becam
the rule with alternating crops an
fa
l. menced to be valuable and the increas
in value has been steady and perma
nent The investor in farm lands. fron
Iowa. Minnesota and the older states
t. have under such processes seen thei
lands advance to $50 and even $50 pc
s. acre History will repeat itself il
this section and given the same az
Is and successful cultivation Of thes
lands. the same results will follow.
OF The stock industry, including I'll
care Gf large herds Of cattle. horse
- and 81 eep, has always hssl profitab
in this section, for reasons too ehviol
20 mention but with The cutting dow
OF the large ranges, Win tHe eHtIy
the smaller fry as the r,i>ot farm'
is sometimes termed, the condition
:. have changed and the result is II
er actual settlement and profitable farl
er ing OF large areas of Ian J precious
~ given over TO ranges. The capacltl
of the country are sti,l infinite as
stock farming" instead Of uncultivat
range result more ANA better sto'
~ with fe wer stock kings"
i'm In farleigh the fertile !an'@ in exc
ON section of the county = very ?
"a ductive. and have proven 70 he
Ver avn. .o !,