Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1907-03-03

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I a frontier which we supposed was a
permanent institution. Yesterday her
history was one Of romantic adven-
ture; today it is one Of not less ro--s
mantle industry. The day in the
northwest is one of contrast. The
tepee still stands beside the new man
sion Of the real estate agent. The
pony races of the red man are held
close to the splendid driving park Of.
what you and q thought was the from.
tier. Once Spokane lived in logs, but
last year she cut millions Of feet of
i lumber and built hundred Of fine:
homes where the frontier formerly
was, but is not. This is country
easily accessible and it's swift occpa-
ton is imply a matter of removing the
remnants of the old misconception re-
garding climate, soil, agricultural pos
sibilities, and the frontier.
% But where is the frontier? Among
s. the green cottonWoods and box elders
4 which enfold what we thought was to
remain forever the wind swept CAPT.
tai Of North Dakota there are many
tents, scores Of them. They are not
however, the tents Of the Sioux but
of the settlers who have not had time
to build their houses.
It was hard wheat that changed Bis,
marck from a COW town to a city Sc
verely modern and .contag iously alive.
She has begun to wholesale by rail
where once she had traficked by boat
and dog train. She accepted the red
wheat as greater than the white faced
COW. What we are to remember is
that Bismarck once sold saddles and
now grinds wheat.
If you seek frontier, search not
for it near Bismarck. But II you stop
and listen to this windy city she will
tell you that she has three hundred
sunshiny days in the year and that
sunshine is contagious. It. is difficult
not to go mady into western boom
figures. That would be risky after all,
for these western cities are Jealous
and they change over night in their
amazing totals. No one cares for stat
istics. But Bismarck is full Of inter
4 est for those who have lost from
tier. sz,ss #.#
North Dakota is where they do
things. This is really the place where
the frontier was abolished by the real
estate agent.
The immigrants came by battalions,
English. Scotch, French. Germans,
& Swedes and Norwegians. There are fif-
teen known languages in some Of
their schools. They came in broods
and focks and colonies. Last year
the Salvation Army brought in hun
dreds When you see homesteader,
you cannot tell whether or not he is
within the range Of human speech.
/ You bitterly reflect only that he is
one OF those who have wiped out the
old frontier. lost 1T forever to those
who love the wilderness. Follow the
Northern Pacific with finger on the
map and answer for yourself the ques-
ton as to that frontier which you and
5I late thought would last forever But
where is the frontier? They show you
pictures Of the old Hundson's Bay
company stores Of other days and tell
you Of low-roofed rooms, smoky and
filed with furs and dog harness and
traps and rifles.
The first immigrant to North Da-
kota neither made a past nor assured
future for this new empire. He was
no broader than the track of the Red
River cart and lived on the buffalo
and subsisted chiefly on whisky. He
was a cumberer OF the earth and
spelled no progress whatever This
was his farm and he reaped Its har-
vest Of fur wher no man sowed or
titled.
recently travelled over this northern
empire and talked with many women,
q knowing them more conservative than
men, and knowing that It is upon the
women that falls the real burden Of all
frontiers. Few Of them were discon.
A tented looked out OF the car win
dow and saw a steam traction engine
with a vast gang Of breaking plows
turning over the black soil There
were many buffalo wallows still Wis
ible and the giant plow was turning
them under carelessly.
What about frontier where they
are raising more wheat than the rail.
roads can haul to market? But there
8. is d frontier It Is marked on the. map
by a group Of small towns In the Ne.
vada desert. Twenty flour hours by
rail from San Francisco over the
spine Of the sierras. Goldfeld. the
center Of the group Of mushroom