Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1904-10-10

2t{ - StdA correspondent vi LIZ DlSSu>
er's Gazette has been out at Medora,
and furnishes that journal with an
excellent write UP Of the country and
what he saw there. With his camera
he secured GONE excellent u views,
which are admirably reprod uced.
Among them the remaining portions Of
President Roosevelt's old log cabin,
some of the cattle that are now on
the ranch, which the correspond lent
thinks are much better than those the
president kept; a scene at the Cluster
Trail" and a view Of the De Mores
packing plant. The Tribune may give
these views in future Issues. Below
is the contribution abridged " ~ ~
I The "Bad Lands" tMauvaises
Terres" Of the French, were called
bad lands because they were bad for
the traveller to pass: through. They
are low mountains OF clay, not yet
solidiied into rock, at though there are
thin layers of soft rock in them.
There ,isss Goa, too too, in great thick
seams In places this coal has been
burned out ages ago. leaving the earth
above is, calcined into redish crumbly
rock Some of these old fires are yet
burning. From the railway these Bad
Lands look desolate and 8sforbidding.
You see perhaps a bluff of whitish
clay, rising up several hundred feet.
There are great gashes in the bluff
where water has torn through it.
There are fantastic buttes and pima
cles Climb that bluff, however and
you findBa smtoth bit Of prairie atop
Of it. From that vantage point YOU
can look afar and see grassy levels
and slopes. The grass III the Bad
Lands is good and there is much
shelter there. In winter all the cattle
on the prairies adjoining flock natural
ly to these sheltered hills E Then iii
summer the stock drifts out to the
prairies again. lss3 :, ,g..= ss.,. ,...,
/ Roughly speaking the Bal Lands ex-
tend north and south for $50 miles.
They are about rs miles wide They
reach from near the Black: Hills to the
Missouri River, perhaps beyond. There
are timber and thickets Of green brush
in the Bad Lands, slopes covered with
buffalo berries and bottoms red with
wild plums: It IL delightful region
and chock full of interest. Here are
the prehistoric burying grounds OF
the old mammals, the three toed horse
the epigostrius, the paleozoicamllus
and other huge but playful animals d
their sort. They died and convenient
Ily left their bones to tell us what 8
fine cattle country this was, Unfortu
nately the men who rode the hippo
dinootherium3 to herd the sportive
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS. and his kind did
mot leave their records. But bones
Y. have been found In these hills thai
tell of animals that could walk off with
barns on their backs! That tells wha'
cattle, country IT. has been! And
there are other bones bones not pre-
historic, bones of fortunes sunk tryinf
to raise too many cattle in too small
country III too hard a winter. Ok
timers tell OF the winter Of 1851.
Medora is the pretty name of thu
hamlet on the Little Missouri where
alighted from the train. Medora named &c
Ia honor Of the Marquis de Mores g
unhappy fortune and tragic end. tn
unfortunate marquis has been NOR
written OF than any one In this land
perhaps, yet there are some reader
who do not know about his part on
here. A French nobleman, he cam
A out here III 1883 and fell In love wit
tho country. He saw It full of e g
N beef and thought Il should die her
tat and happy, the beef only going 7
Chicago 80 he erected . large pacl
52sss ing plant here. II was operated fo
three years since then Y has stoo
D III idle. III Id marked evidence OF ho'
well de Mores Was liked here that 4
has not been burned nor the window
5ls broken out Of 4. Z He wa '
murdered some years ago by his sc e
escort down below Tunis in Norther
africa where he was travelling ia ia
81 so,rdan The madame comes owe ''s
now and then and ID worshiped 3
ID everyone IA this land. She yet keen
her big house on the hin. The madam q ~
generously offers the packing plaI
III and machinery rent free 70 any o. q
who VIM start any industry tha a'ls
! wiai, II 40 operated 70 KID The 81 q q
81 tIe here rAfhsr than ship them oys
b ta,at asonisfng journey ~ ohicas
ould 10 ~ humane Trims. TIE dif