Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1909-05-30
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TAKEN PIACE-COLONEL LITTLE ENTHUSIASTIC OVER
GROWTH B1sMARcK-MANY INDICATIONS POINT


blowing is still going on for late fax
and fodder crops, and in all the new
sections breaking is in full blast,
mostly with steam plows. Stories
have gone out this spring about
steam plows running nights in a
breakneck race to turn over as many
square miles as possible. They are
not myths. Several plows in this Sec
ton have been kept going practically
twenty-four hours in the day, work
ing after dark by the air of head
lights.
Now that the rush is subsiding, the
movement of homeseekers is more de.
liberate and intelligent. Two and
three years ago settlers focked like
sheep into favored locations, Great
ing some tremendous local booms
The later corners find just as good
land available for settlement as the
early birds did, and good land at low
prices, though prices are rapidly ad-
vancing.' Judging by the price levels
now reached little farther east, this
price advance will continue. w. c.
Gilbreath, state commissioner Of
agriculture and labor, who has long
and persistently sung the praises Of
the slope, is calling attention to
school land sale held at Fessenden in
April. One piece of raw prairie land
sold for $45.25 an acre, or 1920 for
the quarter; another 100 acres went
for $500, and other Wells county
tracts untouched by the pillow brought
$35 to $40 an acre.
Filing Vacant Spaces.
Settlement now is general in these
counties of western North Dakota
The southwestern section has had the
best of it since the Milwaukee opened
it's extension. Much admiration is ex
pressed here for the campaign that
company made for settlers and fol
business men to start the new towns
The Milwaukee's advertising wac
tremendous and was justified by the
results, which are still coming. Now.
however, the principal rush is fol
land along the Missouri being made
desirable by the new Northern Pa
cific branches. There is much settle.
ment east of the river, also. Burleigh
county, great part of it long ne
elected, is filling up.
One of the best evidences that the
slope country has arrived is to be
found in the activity of the railroads,
which are rapidly gridironing west.
ern North Dakota. The amount Of
construction work under way and
planned is so large that it is hard to
realize. The Northern Pacific Is
taking the lead just now, with two
important branches being built from
Mandan. There is one branch lead.
ing north up the Missouri for fifty
miles, with its present terminus at
Stanton. Railroad officials say that
right of way is being acquired all the
way up the river to connect with the
Great Northern near WillistOn. The
other Mandan branch goes south
also along the river, through Fort
Yates, seventy-two miles,, nearly to
the South Dakota line. This branch
non Ball, and partly skirting the Can
non Ball river west to Mott, county
seat of Hettinger county, which up
to date, has been without a railroad.
This is cutting into the Milwaukee
territory, and the Milwaukee is TAX
ing active measures. One branch Of
the Milwaukee is announced to be
built from Marmarth. near the west.
ern boundary northeast of Mott. An
other is to go from Mclaughlin in
South Dakota, and the contract for
this work is said to be let already.
This W. invade the same territory
as the Northern Pacific's new south.
ern branch. IN !
l. .n Grif1jrnn Fast NJ River
East of the river things are doing
ALSO, The Northern Pacific's pur-
chase of land at Wilton, a point on
the 500, about twenty-five miles to
the north of Bismarck, shows that
the recent surveys leading to that
point have been in earnest. There il
q line surveyed from Pingree, on the
Jim river branch, west through
Stutsman, J.. Kidder and Burleigh
counties, to Wilton. 1t is parallel to
the main line. Then the branch from
La Moure to Streeter is surveyed fol
an extension north, intersecting the
main line at Dawson, and going on
north to meet the Pingree-Wilton
line. - = T. - - -.
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# Bismarck's present prosperity was
outlined in most interesting fashion
by one Of its pioneer business men,
Senator C. B. Little, president of the
First National bank. n * .1">ts, =
II believe we have 1900 people in
Bismarck today said y Mr.. Little.
."The 1906 census gave up Just under
5000, but every year seventy to
eighty new residences have been
built, and since that time our hotel
capacity has been doubled, yet every
thing IL full, and believe $500 peo-
Pile have been added in four years.
This city 10 becoming the Wholesale
distributing point for q great coun.
try. We have q Wholesale grocery
house. established flve years ago. and
another grocery house Ii figuring on
coming In It onca Y. There arA two