Bismarck daily tribune. [volume] (Bismarck, Dakota [N.D.]) 1881-1916, 1916-05-07

The next move was to Council Bluff:
and then Chicago and home by the
way of Montreal.
This trip to Maine was made the
same year and it was a brief one as
Mr.. Field had seen enough Of the
West to determine his future course.
He believed that was the country for
him so after visiting his Lewiston
relatives and friends he went to Bos-
ton and purchased o bill OF groceries
and dry goods, making trade with
the railroad officials that they be ship
ped to Bismarck or Pierre at $l.25
per hundred for freight. The trade
| was also made that at Chicago he
would decide which OF the two routes
to take.
Instead of deciding just then he
went up to st. Paul and bought more
goods after which he again returned
to Chicago. In that city he met the
newspaper reporter who had been his
stage coach companion on the former
trip There was great rivalry between
the two roads and the reporter show
ed him an article that he had written
in favor of the Bismarck route. The
railroad men showed him another let
ter in favor of the Pierre route writ
ten by the Bangor lumberman and
when Mr.. Field told them that he had
been one of that party they were read:
to do anything for him. Finally the
Bismarck route was taken and the
goods were shipped to that billing
point at 81 per hundred. On reaching
that place he found the goods billed
at $1.25 per hundred but telegram
to St. Paul brought back message
to strike off the p cents. 1t was
favorite trick of railroad men in we
old days The goods were stored in
Bismarck for short time and then
came the work of transporting them
to their destination in the Black Hills.
From Bismarck to the Elack Hills
is a distance of 800 miles and to trans
port the goods By team was the work
Of a long time When this was fin
ished and the profits reckoned up Mr..
Field returned to Bismarck and con-
suited Col. Brown, the government
land agent whom he told of his desire
TO settle down in that region. He
wanted 100 acres Of land as home
stead claim but the agent asked him
why he didn't take tree claim also
and said that he could have 800 acres
for 1913. The money was pulled out
and paid at once and then came the
question of location. This was done
on township 13S range 70 and the
east half of section four. On looking
the land over Mr.. Field was not quite
satisfied and had it changed from
section four to the northwest quarter
of section 10-cornering on the orig
inal lot. That land is today still in
the possession of Mr. Field and is
easily worth 500 per acre. 1t is but
six miles from Bismarck and is one or
the finest farms in that region. His
first house was a shack SX10 feet in
size and here he settled in the month
of March 1878. The first crop was
raised that year and the yield Of oats
and potatoes was something tremend-
GUS. Today there is an up-to-date
eightrOOm house, big barn, forty
head of cattle twenty horses and
other stock in proportion. His cattle
are the Black Welch and said to be
the only dairy herd of that breed in
America. OF course he has plenty Of
neighbors now as that country is we'll
settled up for many miles out Of Bis
marCk.
Mr.. Field married Dorothy Jane
Colder of Lewiston in 1859 and the
couple have three sons, one Of whom
is surgeon in the city Of St. Peter,
Minnesota, and the other two are we'll
to do farmers. Three other children
are now dead.
AlthO Mr. Field was in Dakota dur
ing some of the Indian wars he never
had any trouble with them himself
atho he saw many dead bodies killed
by them. On his second trip to the
Black Hills he saw two men, woman
yoke of oxen and dog that had just
been killed On these trips there
we're outriders to give warning of the
Indians and when they were near pre-
parations were made to receive them
On those occasions they never came