The Dickinson press., 1912-03-16

both PANIED to color Of gold on the
strands of Heart river in the first years
and MIR. Hickman fashioned a very re-
spectacle milestone from a boulder
found in the drift strata, which would
represent a very hard specimen of green
trap-r0ck.
In 1882 the railway company built
some very fine depot buildings for first
ones. at nearly every station along the
road. Gladstone got the first one and
Dickinson and Taylor both got one the
first fall.
The old Third Crossing" section
house sheltered a double crew of men
until in January. 1883, at a point about
three miles west of Green river when
the section house at Gladstone was fin
ished. which ''Dick Lawrence" occu-
pied for the first time as keeper. John
McVey and Nels Cuisine were the sec
ton foremen at that. time then Mr.. Nc
Vey went to Mandan and Charles Kono
took his place as section foreman : after
ward Messrs. Kono and Dan Forbes
bought a couple of yokes of oxen of E.
Seaman and went to farming.
At the Third Crossing water for en-
CINE purposes was syphoned from the
Heart river at that time ; later the rail-
way company contracted with G. S.
Cryne at Gladstone for the use of the
spring beneath the hill for their water
supply ; some three years ago this plant
was abandoned for the Green river sup
ply which is a great gain for the en-
gineers.
This spring that did duty so long for
the railway company was the same one
that the colony board tried to exploit
with their hydraulic-ram; that fiasco
cost a lot of money and could not have
been of any use anyhow on account of
the poor quality of the water for culin-
airy uses when drawn through common
iron pipes; the water that was drawn
through the pipes from this ram was i'm
preenated with iron both from the
natural supply in the watera nd the ad-
ditional amount from the pipes to that
extent that it. resembled a thin sample
Of box q paint more than water.
When we first came wild geese and
ducks nested on the streams and grouse
and jack rabbits were so thick you could
knock them over with a stick. Antelope
were positively in the way : deer were
good hunting along the streams and
away from the railway no more than 8
few miles. buffalo were plentiful.
|. The coal supply of those days was
obtained from thin vines along the
stream mostly. The first entry that I re-
member pr coal mining was made BY
Beckett & Foote at the Lally cut in 1888.
They went to the bottom of the strats
where it cropped out at the waters edge
on the ice and made an entry and tool
out several tons for consumption in theil
stoves in Dickinson.
Charles Klinefelter got his supply Of
coal at Dickinson a little further up the
Heart river somewhere near where thu
new coal mine has been opened recently.
Somewhere lee this point. on section
Is. there was in evidence in those day.
graves that have been reported t have
been the burial place of two U. S
soldiers that were killed in a skirmisl
with Indians some time previous to set
Element. The files of the PRESS shoult
blive MI. SCOTS account of these graves
land who they were.
Now. Dear Readers Of The PRESS.
am done for this time. / have writer
these incidents" for the purpose 0
attracting the attention Of people tina
may chance to read the PRESS in east
ern states. have not expected to b
so accurate in my dates as to escapt
criticism. but the facts are. for the mos
part, put very nearly where they shout,
be. For one little mistake, perhaps.
shall make an apology, and that is tb,
statement that Russell Lawrence wa