Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1904-05-25

And passing onward we reached the
great valley Of Red river, where the
blue sky and feeding clouds admon-5
5ished us that we were approaching
those high northern lattitudes where
the rivers pour their waters northward
into British America. 4, n, II 7s 4 ,.5l llytt
Surveying in the Lower Red River
< = 4 N.Y. SS,! I'll Valley. N; 5sg /
Red River OF the North, B. Al, Sep
TENDER !, 1867. I T E u #35 aa{. ga
+. We arrived safely upon British SOIL,
having brought up the eleventh stand
ard and seventh guide meridian
through one hundred and forty miles
of Wild country infested by mosquitoes
and Indians. The point Of intersec-
ton with the international boundary
is eight miles and fifty-four chains
west Of Red River of the North.
Leaving Fort Abercrombie on the
9th of August, we passed up the east
side of Red river, along the Fort Garry
trail, fifty miles to Georgetown, Ave
miles below the mouth Of the Shey-
enne OF the North. Here we found a
half dozen houses belonging to 4 the
Hudson Bay Company. A trader, is
there, and perhaps half a dozen white
men in the employ of the same com
pany. Here we found a good ferry, It
being the crossing Of the Red river
half-breed trains to Fort Garry and
Hudson Bay from st. Paul. v
We succeeded in buying some milk
and a large catfish, having entered the
land Of fish and pemmican; no bread,
flour, or pork to be had for love, or
greenbacks 4 4 a.. 4. .,53is. b S5tsG &,
We found the river heavily timbered
with fine oak, ash and elm between
Abercrombie and this place, and a uni
form deep channel in the stream, the
little steamer International having
made two trips to this post from Brit
fish America since spring, in the en-
ploy of the Hudson Bay Company.
Leaving Georgetown on the morning
Of the 18th, after one Of the most terri
Bile thunderstorms that r ever wit
messed, we arrived and encamped OPP
posite the mouth Of Wild river, just at
!, sunset, this being the starting point
of my survey. On the morning Of the
18th, after a long search in the woods
/ for the mouth OF the river, and being
nearly bled to- death by swarms OF
ravenous mosquitoes, we emerged
from the L wilderness like Rachel
weeping for her children" bringing
I withsus the line to the open plain. We
now felt as thought the long lost was
| found, and we rejoiced with all our
pains and sufferings, inflicted through
twenty-five long days and nights Of
| travel on the plains. But our trouble
was not ended Our line led us
through $coutry haunted by the hos.
/ tile Sioux and thieying Chippewa In
dams. But we moved. on with our
lives in our hands, six men Of us. hop
j ing to run the gauntlet and pass un-
harmed and silently through the coun-
try. Having run our line twenty -four
4 miles west OF Red river, we crossed
| many large hunting trails Of the
! Sheyenne and Devils Lake bands, but
encountered no Indians until we ar
| rived at the head OF Goose river, where
our noise created by cutting road.
| way through the woods and crossing
the stream with our teams, and the
shooting OF an elk which jumped up
lin front Of us, brought to view four
Chippewa Indians, who came from .
large encampment Of that tribe farther
down the stream. They shook hands
but looked suspicious and wanted to
sleep with us one night, saying their
camp was more than zone sleep dis.
tant my Hudson Bay employee speak
ing the Chippewa tongue. We gave
them supper, put them to- bed "A q
manner to protect ourselves, and kept
4 watch through the night They wrap.
\ ped themselves up In their blankets
so tight that each Indian was 40
larger than a sack OF -four, and slept
ana Al IA ~ hid n ,t. Ia,