The Bottineau courant. (Bottineau, Bottineau County, N.D.) 1895-1929, 1903-08-21
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RICHBURG.

that he required some respite from his
arduous literary labors started Wednes-
day, August 9Th on ramble through
the northern part of the county which
accounts for the lack of your usual
Richburg letter in last weeks issue.
However brief account OF his ramb-
lings will doubtless be accepted as a
substitute. Leaving Richburg the first
place visited was Scotia where it was
whispered to him as a secret by one of
the head men of that place that town
site had been purchased near Hunskor 8
and that soon thriving village would
grace the eastern shore of Mouse river.
This town to-be will Of course, not
be the property of Mr.. Stoltz nor will
it be dumped in a mudhole but sit
uated on land high and dry and grad
ually sloping to the river. To this
place the buifdings Of Scotia will be
moved but whether the name of Scotia
will be given to the new village had not
then been decided. Grading on the
line west of the river was going on
slowly, the men and teams from the
Lansford branch not having arrived
Loads of ties for track for the dump
cars were arriving, and by this time.
no doubt, work has commenced in real
earnest
Leaving Scotia we proceeded to Souris,
arriving there in the evening. | found
that grading had advanced to short
distance west of Boundary creek and
that the work was far from being in
the completed condition reported by
the Grand Forks Herald, whose CORES
pondent must live in the basement of
that enterprising Office and let his i'm
aginatiOn have full swing Crops
along the road from Scotia to a few
miles west Of Boundary Creek were
fairly good. but from that point to
SOuriS, particularly along the northern
side of the railway grade they are not
at all good perhaps on account of the
prevalence of gumbO,. Just after al
rived in Souri> a special train came III
bearing the railroad commissioners and
few friends. to whom reference was
mace in your paper last week. Nat
u,atly 4 Richbury man wuull expect
and did expect that the commissions
ers, who are the servants Of the people,
ana supposed to be interested in what
ever pertains to their welfare. wo,ld
continue their journey west to Rich
burg, and inform themselves Of affairs
at that point. 1t seems however that
was too much to expect and that they
are supposed to he deaf to the cries OF
the people when their interests conflict
with those OF Jim Hill or Mr.. StOltZe
By the bye see by the last Courant
that the latter has very considerably
given the people of Richburg the first
choice of lots in the new town at his
own price. Magnanimous Stoltze!
stopped in Souris long enough to see a
few friends and note the progress that
pl ice hal made ilce my last visit,
,,nd | must say that | was agreeably
surprised at tle number of dwellings,
that have been erected and the quality
of the buildings. | saw no signs of
decay. On the contrary Souris seems
to be assuming substantial appear
ance The Thorburn residence just
on the western limits of the village.
is one of the finest in the country and
a credit to Souris. Business seems to
he lively Wagon loads of lumber. i'm
plements and other goods going west
in great numbers.
From Souris proceeded eastward
along the telephone line as far as Mr.
Sem $ in section 81 1876. where l
stopped for the night From SOuris to
Ryder Larson 5, section 25- 1863 - (just
west of Mr.. Sem S crops are even
worse than between Boundary Creek
and Souris, but from that point east
ward to where the telephone line runs
southeast they looked much better.
There the land is rolling the houses of
the settlers are large and comfortable
and the general appearance of the
country is one of prosperity and con-
tentment. From the school house,
section "a 1876, 1 followed the road
about hundred yards southeast to Mr.
Crowder' s residence at the foot of the
mountain where the trail ascends to
the upper regions, up which climbed
to the residence of Mr.. Strindum,
section 25-163-16, from the front of
which magnificent view is afforded
of the mountain side, the foot hills
and the lower plain beneath stretching
away to the west, south and east, to
where the golden grain and the sky
seem to meet
On the west Souris could plainly be
seen, while southeast Bottineau, One
NEE, Willow City and family in the
distance Rugby Junction could be dis
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