Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1912-09-03
GE0GRAPHERS
IN BAD Lands
Foreign Scientists We're high
" Interested With Western
Side Of State
BY stan Correspondent.

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interesting events. Practically the
entire day was spent in sight seeing
and in studying the various phenom
ena that have made that region fam
GUS from both the popular and the
scientific standpoint. While in North
Dakota, the party va unde: Me lead
ership Of Professor Howard Simpson
Of the State University and he sue.
ceeded so we'll in his management and
In his selection of the sights most
worth seeing that all of the party
were well pleased with their two
days within the states boundaries.
The special train which Is making
the trip solid just as 1t left New York
left Bismarck Sunday evening and ra"
to Richardton where 1t tied up for the
night. 1t left there early Monday
morning and a through to Medora,
arriving there at nine o'clock. While
the means Of transportation were be.
Ing gathered together, the whole patty
went for q climb UP the bluff north
of town with Professor e. F. Chandler
of the University as guide. Many OF
the, party carried cameras and some
time was spent here viewing the land.
scape, taking photographs and dis
cussing the things that could be seen
from this vantage point.
: Some twenty or more saddle horses,
a number of spring wagons and one
hay wagon with a four-horse team had
been assembled for the use of the
party. The start was made from the
"a edoNa station at ten.thirty. Only
plum gentle" horses had been Sc
lected and 1t is we'll that this was
the case, for some of the old range
bronchos might have objected to the
variety of languages and foreign tx
pletives that were lav.shed on Livery
man, Watson's collection of horse
flesh during the day, No accidents of
any consequence happened during the
day, though some Of the Americans in
the party would like to have e e a
few exhibitions of how the foreign
brethren would take to the was of
western horses.
The mounted Division of the party
took a route to the southwest and
viewed the locality of Flat Top Butte
and the remainder of the party took
the train south to the Custer Trail
Ranch. Frequent stops were made on
the way to permit a closer inspection
of the landscape and many photo
graphs were taken. The party united
at the Custer Traile Rancho. Bill Nc
earthly was not at home to welcome
his large party of guests, but his
grounds were taken possession of tc
good advantage zone the less. After
lunch, the party let in a body by the
trail up Sull Creek to the burning
coal mine and Petrified forest located
about one mile, west and south OF
Sully Springs station.
Particularly to the foreigners of the
party, the whole Bad Lands region
was a revelation, and frequent excla'
nations OF wonder expressed in many
different tongues were heardthrough.
out the day. One scientist of note in
the gr0upe who allowed nothing to
escape him was the famous Russian
scientist Jules de Schokalsky, who
spent much of his time in collecting
samples Of the plants of the region.
Professor Bolley of the Agricultural
College who was with the party was
able to give him much assistance ir
this work.
Professor Davis of Harvard Univer.
sity is managing the whole trip of the
party and he expressed himself to a
representative OF the Tribune as be-.
ing very well pleased with the treat
ment accorded the party in North Da;
kota. The automobile trip at this
place Sunday made a particularly
happy impression with the foreign
members of the party, the more So
because the points visited were those
that interested them most. At Me.
dora, a number of the scientific men
Of the state, Professors Leonard.
Simpson and Chandler of the Univer.
sity and Professor Bolley Of the Agri.
cultural College and Mr.. D. E. Willard
formerly Of the Agricultural College,
were abe to render valuable assis.
lance as guides to the places of most
interest and as sources Of information.
The par.y's special was backed up
to Sully Springs Station and they met
1t there at six o'clock. A night run
was made from there to Gardiner
where a stop OF several days will be
made to view Yellowstone Park and
the surrounding region. All of the
North DaAota members of the party
came back last night except PROBES
s0r Simpson who will continue on t.
the Pacific coast.
BRAKEMAN .AAa ri naE CAL