Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-04-18
RUSH OF SETTLERS
ouTHsWEsTERN PART OF NORTH
1. DAFpTA SETTLING RAPIDLY
LONG THE MlL.svAIll< EE. s MI
NEW ToWNslTEs. NEW ENTER
PRisEs, NEW COUNTIES AND
EW COUNTY SEATS.

] E RISES, NEW COUNTIES AND
NEW COUNTY SEATS.
Dickinson Press, 18th: The rush Of
settlers for 1907 has. commenced and
4 the activity in land sales and tilings is
very marked both north and sonth.
. For the first ten days of April, this
year, the homestead filings at the
1 United States land office in Dickinson
was over forty greater than for the
correspo nding period in 1906.
Owing to the activity, of the. Mil
waukee there is much more talk just
now about the country south than
about the lands situated north. Many
of the shreWd buyers, however, have
been making purchases in the north
ern country this spring and seem to
1 feel that they have done better than
they. would have done had. they fol-
/ lowed the crowds.
The past ten days the Milwaukee
GRADERS and Quitting teams have
been pushing south from Dickinson in
great numbers. On Wednesday, TWEEN
1 ty grading teams were on the road
from Dickinson to New England,
thence to proceed to the South Dakota
line
| D. j. Griffith, who has the contract
for grading eighteen miles of the new
| Milwaukee extension near the Little
Missouri river, in Bowman county, and
west, was in Dickinson on Monday for
supplies. His camps are strung out at
points one and two miles apart along
the line. and in the main camp he has
1 100 men.
1t is no wonder that people get ex-
cited when so much work is in pro-
/ gress and the home steaders are rush
ing in by the hundreds every day.
The division of Hettinger county,
creating Adams county out of the
southern IS townships, has also been
much much in the minds of the people, both
old and new settlers, of late. While
the creation of Adams has not been
officially announced by the governor,
1t is conceded to be reality by those
who are on the inside of things. Mott
will be the temporary seat OF Het-
finger, the northern county, with 80
townships, while the new town, Het-
finger, will be named as the county
seat of Adams
People are tenting around the newly
plated town, but it will probably be
some time before they can get posses
sion of lots. Al
The First State bank of Hettinger,
Incorporated by J. F. Brodie, j. S.
/ Green and G. N. Gorham. with a capi-
tai stock of $4,000, was organized last
week. The bank will be established in
the town Of Hettinger, Adams county,
a in the north half of section IS, town
ship 12s, range SO, on the Milwaukee
railroad, sixty miles south of Dickin-
son. 81
The town of Hettinger has been
4 plated by the Milwaukee Land com
4 pany, and the p1ats have been filed III
i the office Of the Stark county register
/ of deeds. The plats show the town to
a consist Of 40 blocks and s outlots. The
streets are all Sc feet wide, with the
exception Of the main street, which is
la trr r.1- =
4 LOO feet wide. The alleys are 20 feet
wide. The lots on Main street are
II rs feet wide and the rest are so feet
q wide.
IN township 12s, range3s2, just over
q the line in South Dakota, Lemon is
i, slated to be plated. If Butte county
y is divided, as seems probable, the new
town in the high license state would
be named ais the county seat, thus Civ
!. ing prospects of. place of consider
1 able size.
In Bowman county townsite matters
are also uppermost in the minds 81
& many people. Saltwater is seven miles
Z from the new railroad and the bust
A ness men Of this pioneer village arr
likely to move south to Hamilton 81
southwest to q town slated for ths
! Twin Buttes locality. Another town
!, site is being considered for poin
near the Atkinson ranch, while TIL.
: western Bowman county town vii
1 likely be plated on the Little Beave
! not far from the coal land holdings o
Peake and Brodie. 5s4