The Dickinson press., 1912-03-02

"a % O0ylS 0utto0) O1 OlCk1n.
son. the Davis brothers broke up a large
tract of land and sowod 1t to oats /:
Chas. Burke In the same vicinity also
had in a good area Of oats; in the fall
the N. P. Ry. Co. In order that these
men might be enabled to get these crops
to market got a Mr.. Ayers Of Mandan TO
put his horsepower threshins machine
on cars and como to the county. and
thresh out the crops that were raised
that season in the county. The most Of
the Yields were, CONSIDERING the fact that
all were on sod and in the light Of re-
cent cultivation of sod the fact that
the work of putting IN the crop was
done with wholly inadequate and In,
efficient implements, extremely satisfy
ing and remunerative, especially the
oat crops. for the Montana market for
that grain left nothing more to be de-
sired. but such seasons for agriculture
as this trial season had proved, and as
a result high hopes were entertained of
being able to maintain that there was
sufficient rainfall TO make crops every
year. .
Pleasant Valley, as the valley beyond
the ridge north of Dickinson was
known. was a long time known as a
spot where there should logically be a
town. but that it would be built on the
exact spot where the town now stands
could not for a moment have been enter
tanned by trappers and plainsmen of an
early date.
The bold rampant of buttes to tn
southwest of the town, across the Hearte'
liver, on the old maps was put down as
1.-THE 'Malikoff" from lis fancied like
ness 10 that famous earth-work in the
Crimean peninsula where the hard bat
ties of that we'll known wal were fought
in the early SOS. As I have always
maintained, it is a shame that the
average %tender-f0ot always thinks. that
he is entitled to rearrange the names in
a country. and tack onto some venerable
landmark, some puny name of..an un-
known. and for the most part unworthy
persons name. when the pertinent loei-
cal name that the topoerapher Of the
country or authorities have given it are
displaced to make room for his cogno-
men.
But I must hasten to the close with
AIo~~ s--sI~~ko --I kh~~, ~-0.. .-~s r.
dents there is a history yet to be writ
ten ; it should be a concise tersely writ
ten history of the activities of the per-
iod so poorly covered in these Incidental
memories of the most interesting part
of the history Of any country; the days
of ~heartaches. victories and failures ;
the formative years of the country.
when if wisdom can foresee. there has
been built securely for the future, if un-
wisely and selflshly, then the aftermath
is contention and hardship, jealousies.
and at last commercial and political
graft, and last. but. not least, chaotic
social existence which often partakes
so much of the sporty element, as to
jeopardise the liberty of q commonwealth
OF neighborho0d. and even municipal
life and energy. ,~ns
I shall not at this time attempt more
than to sum up the incidents with a few
memorable incidents of isolated happen
ings throughout the country mostly. in
the few first years: the years that were
so filed with interesting though in
congruous happenings, and which when
read of at sufficiently long range seem
to have had great weight but at close
range show the seamy side of life and
the gr~otesque rather than the valuable
or necessary.