Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1905-07-22

Artas, s. DNenturia, North Dakota
Herreid into the famous wheat belt
Pollock of Campbell county, South
Dakota. The Spring Creek Velley, in
which the track of the Soo-Pacific
line finds its way toward the Missouri
is splendid farming country with
considerable development and still
greater future.
Considerable interest at
Napoleon taches to the country far
6raddock Their west. About Napo
Bismarck leon, Braddock, Wishek
and Bismarck an extensive cattle bust
ness has developed. The herds are
large and of excellent breeding.
Bismarck is the center of extensive
cattle and sheep industry, and is the
capital of the state of North Dakota.
A city of about four thousand people;
it is situated on the east bank of the
Missouri river, and commands beau
tiful view of the river 1t is the most
important distributing point for the
vast territory both east and west of
the Missouri river. The city has
splendid drainage, and the finest
reservoir system of waterworks in the
state.
There is located at Bismarck the
United States Indian Industrial school
in course Of construction. Here. also,
is situated Fort Lincoln, one of the fin
est and most modern regimental mill
tary posts in the United States in
course of constructions; fourteen fine
brick buildings being already COM
pleted, and occupied by regular army
troops. The state penitentiary and
Irvine plant are located here, just east
of the capitol. St. Alexius hospital,
one of the most splendidly equipped
and modern hospitals, is located here
The state supreme court and the dis
trict court and the United States cir
cult court and the district court sit at
Bismarck
Extending northwesterly from Bis
marck to the present terminus, Under
wood, 4SS moles, is the newly acquired
line which passes through the now
famous Ignite coal lands of North Da-
kota. Five towns have been estab-
lished along the way, Arnold, Baldwin,
Wilton, Washburn and Underwood,
and all of them are becoming active
business centers.
Wilton has been selected as the
headquarters of the Washburn Ignite
Coal company and the company has
erected there mining buildings which
are capable of handling coal at the
rate Of 1900 tons per day.
Washburn commands a beautiful
view of the Missouri river, in both
directions; and is the most northerly
river point on the $500 line on the
Missouri river. Has daily line of
steamboats,. The Benton Packet Co.,
operating from Washburn to points
north on the Missouri river, Mann
haven and Expansion. Washburn is
the county seat, and commands trade
of a fine agricultural country, and is
surrounded by fields of Ignite coal.
There is fine ferry in operation.
Underwood is a growing little town
and is at present the end of the line
A word about the wonderful coal fields
now being worked in this country NAV
| be of interest.
The Ignite area of the
state occupies, roughly,
Arnold the western half of it,
Baldwin which is known as the
Wilton Plateau du Coteau du Mis-
Washburn souri,, or simply the Co.
Underwood teau country. Throughout
this region of the Ignite
is exposed in seams, sometimes very
small, and again very large, in thous.
ands of places. In great many cases
the Ignite beds are wholly covered
and concealed by glacial drift.
These seams vary from an inch tc
forty feet in thickness, seams of fror,
six to ten feet thick being very com
mon, and those from twelve to fifteer
feet being frequently found.
Without attempting to use scientific
terms, it may be stated that these
North Dakota lignites contain, accord
ing to analysis made by the NORTH
Dakota state geological survey, from
so to 50 per cent of fixed carbon
Based upon fixed carbon alone, a tor
of Ignite is worth, for heating pur
poses, nearly rs per cent of a ton o.
Pennsylvania bituminous coal, and thu
Ignite is the equal of the bituminous
Goals of Kansas, Missouri, and Iowa.
The country north and west of I'm
derwood is now being penetrated by 6
new extension running northwest
through an excellent portion of Nc
Lean county. This country was early
found to be one Of the most productive
I xorfc Nf HoJr