Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1903-09-07
TWENTY-THIRD YEAR.

Stewartsdale, Sept 2.-As special
representative of the Bismarck Tri-
bune with instructions to visit differ
ent sections of the county. talk with
the farmers and note the improve
ments and conditions of the country,
my first route has taken in a portion
of what is known as the reservation"
it being the old Fort Rice military
reservation, away back in the '7O's.
AS logged along l could not but
feel the eXhilirating influence of the
Incompatible atmosphere of North
Dakota, which | inhaled in . long
breaths, filling my lungs to their ut
most capacity.
1t being the 1st of September and
a beautiful day, the chicken hunters
were making the most of it, and guns
could be heard banging on every side.
Antelope Park.
Turning eastward when about two
miles from the city, | followed a road
which led through groves of cotton
wood and crossed Apple Creek over
tiny red bridge-flnally reached the
500 tracks, the other side of which
found Antelope Park
This farm is not large, being just
100 acres just over the township line
in Apple Creek township; but one is
impressed by the complete order and
freshness of the place. A cottage clean
and white with green shutters to
match the vines and bushes which
climb the porch and partly screen the
windows, it is charming place.
Sam Crawford is the lord of this do
main. A Michigan man who sold his
land in that state ten years ago for
$40 an acre, and now would not trade
his Dakota property acre for acre
back again
Mr.. Crawford was in the bayfield,
when the correspondent arrived, but
Mrs. Crawford kindly supplied what
information she could.
we always IGel tIe SAME. rain VI
shine. but as matter of fact, there
is no cause to feel anything but
. pleased this year at Antelope Park fol
our corn is one of the best crops we
have ever had and the smaller grains
are anything but failures said Mrs
Crawford Antelope Park is especially
favored with a spring which bubbles
up from deep down in the earth-not
far from the Crawford house, and fur
nishes the coldest and purest of water
The water of this spring was at one
time analyzed by chemist from the
east who pronounced it minera
spring of great curative power.
Jim Mcdonald.
Leaving the Park | retraced my
steps toward Ft. Lincoln and resumed
sight of one of the largest cornfield
in the country on the ranch of J. d
Mcdonald.
Standing near the house, as far a
the eye can reach in all directions i
corn, corn. corn. Here as before re
ceived a cheerful reply to the question
of what the outlook would be fo
crops this year Mr. Mcdonald says h
has been very lucky, but appearance
would go to show that thrift and gOo'
management played more importan
part with jim that good luck.
Mr.. Mcdonald is one of Burleig
county's oldest settlers-having com
here in 1876. He has had good lucl
and bad luck, prosperity and adver
sity, but never for moment has h
regretted having settled here or los
his faith in Dakota soil.
Mrs. Donald Mcdonald, mother O
j. d., is visiting brothers and sisters
and sons and daughters around Bis
marck for few weeks. She make
her home at Glengarry, Canada.
J. p. Wilson.
greeted me with cheerful counter
ance and an invitation to come i
and rest. In Mr. Wilson ! found
man possessed of great patience. Fo
sixteen years after coming to thi
country he remained a squatter befor
the land was opened for settlemen
AT one time, he says, Il was a
nmost discouraged, but in convers;
ton with Alex Mckenzie. was a.
vised to hold out little longer, an
at last the time came when ! We
able to file on the homestead ] ha
Woitad for ca long