The Dickinson press., April 21, 1883, Image 1

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Jonnty, North Dakota, Saturday, April 21,1883.
E. J. TAMBLIN,
Contractor and Builder,
DICKINSON, D. T.
Store and Oflice Work Specialty.
AGENT FOR T. XEW'S
Felt and Cement Roofing.
GOING I GOING! GOING!
Get there Eli ere it's forever too late.
Get Government land while
you have a chance.
Homestead, Pre-Emption
AND
TREE CLAIM
Settlers Located
W. H. Hoyt.
DICKINSON, D. T.
Wm. H. Homan,
Practical Painter.
Contracts Taken
AM)
Estimates Cheerfully Furnished.
All work exeentcd in a first-clang manner. Or
ders left at Auld & Moore's store will receive
{irompt attention.
DICKINSON*. DAKOTA.
JOHN V. BOWLES,
Contract
Carpenter&Builder
DICKINSON, DAKOTA.
Lwnrk rion« in a cood and workmanlike
\r.
& GANON,
THE MACHINE SHOPS!
WILL BE BUILT
AND DICKINSON WILL BOOM.
A Description of the Flue Brick Shops
Which the Railroad Company
Will Build in Dickinson.
Surveyors have been here this week
surveying and staking off ground for
the immense machine shops and round
house which the railroad company
will build here as soon as the neces
sary arrangements can be completed.
These shops will be the largest and
most complete this side of Brainard
and will employ a large number of
men both in their construction and
after they are finished—enough in
themselves to make a good sized town.
The citizens of Dickinson may con
gratulate themselves on being so for
tunate in securing the location of
these shops here. They will be of
brick and a great and lasting benefit
to the town. Besides this the divis
ion will be operated from this point
making it the place where all the
train men will lay over instead of
Glendive and Mandan as heretofore.
The location of the shops here makes
it certain that the Black Hills branch
will leave the main line of the North
ern Pacific at this point. "With these
and the many other advantages that
we have it is evident that Dickinson
will become the metropolis of the
West Missouri country.
THE ROUND HOUSE,
when completed, will contain forty
four stalls but for the present it will
only be one-fourth that size, or eleven
stalls, which will be enlarged as the
necessities of the company demand it.
TIIE ENGINE ROOM
will be 20x44 feet and will be fitted up
with a large engine and boilers which
will furnish power and steam for the
shops. In
TIIK BOILER SHOP,
which is 44x50 will be placed all the
latest improved machinery for the re
pairing of boilers and will be capa
ble of turning out a new boiler if nec
essary.
TIIE BLACKSMITH SHOP
will be 44x50 and fitted up in the best
shape for all kinds of work and will
furnish employment to a number of
blacksmiths and assistants. The
next building of importance is the
large
CAR SHOP
where all kinds of cars, from a com
mon Hat to the finest coach, can be
repaired and almost entirely rebuilt.
This shop will be 48x80. They are
jging to stop at this but will also
ltd commodious
PRESS.'
THE LAND FOR SOLDIERS.
Bishop Samuel Fellows, D. D., in the
Milwaukee Sunday Telegraph.
I have just returned from a visit to
the home of my youth in Wisconsim
where I have been counseling with
friends and relatives as to the expedi
ency of their going to Dakota to take
up homestead claims.
I have made dilligent enquiries in
many directions from those most com
petent to judge by actual experience
what the advantages and disadvanta
ges of such a movement would be.
These enquiries were also made for
the benefit of many soldiers who are
anxious to take advantage of the last
opportunity they will have to secure
for themselves and families a portion
of the public domain within a reason
able distance from the two great cities
of the lake. Without attempting to
give in detail what I heard for and
against Dakota, I can say the argu
ments were ten to one in favor of
that Territory. Whatever cold
weather, blizzard or alkaline streaks
may be peculiar to that region, these
cannot weigh for a moment against
the amazing fertility and superlative
ly invigorating climate. The stories
told of the productiveness of the soil
would seem almost fabulous were they
not authenticated beyond the shadow
of a doubt.
The rapidity with which its towns
grow up is something marvellous. A
little over two years ago I went on
the Northern Pacific railway west of
Fargo. The point at which I left the
railroad was a siding. There was no
dej»ot. Two houses constituted the
place. Now there are, I am told, 150
houses, two banks, three dry goods
stores, two churches and another rail
road. The rush to Dakota reminds
one of the rush to California when 1
first came as a lad to Wisconsin. A
gentleman connected with one of the
great railroads running into the Ter
ritory told me that at nearly every sta
tion the demand was not for five or
six, but for twenty, forty and even
sixty cars to transport the movables
of emigrants to this inviting country.
1 think the Chicago Tribune was not
in error in calling Dakota the future
£mpire state of the imperial North
west.
Now is the time for the brave boys
in blue to secure their homesteads.
Such an opportunity will never occur
again. Every soldier, in my judgment
should have had 100 acres given him.
The next best thing is to take the land
on the easy conditions prescribed by
law. Ben. Wade said, in the United
States senate, in view of the rapid ab
sorption of our national inheritance
"When the year 1900 comes in, every
acre of arable land in the United
States will be worth at least $50." At
the end of seventeen years, if not be
fore, the prediction will assuredly be
verified. There is no one more de
serving than the soldier of the inev.
itable advantage to be secured from
the coming rise in the value of the
!i farming lands of Dakota,
$2.50
Dickinson Press.
The above is the title of a new
weekly paper just started in Dickin*
son, Stark county, Dakota. It is
nicely gotten up seven column paper,
one which Dakota can well be proud
of. Messrs Scott & Mabee are the
publishers. We are not acquaint
with the gentlemen, but their pap
speaks well for them. We wish th\
PRESS a long and prosperous life, and
one that may be crowned with sucJ
cess.—Daily N. P. Railroad Journal!
J. T. Scott, formerly of the JelM
soman press rooms, has started
paper at Dickinson, Dakota Territory,I
in partnership with a Mr. Mabee. Tliel
paper—the Dickinson PRESS—is a|
handsome, wide-awake paper, full of
vim and uinegar so characteristic of
the live journals of the far west.
town is only a few months oldj
"Joe" is already an old citizen.—I
bridge (O.) Jeffersonian.
The Dickinson PRESS has just been
started at Dickinson, Stark county,
and gives evidence of editorial and
business ability in its management.
The Republican wishes it success.—
Fargo Republican.
We had a great many complimenta
ry notices such
ih
the above, but they
have got mislaid and we were unable
to find them.
Gentle raindrops.
Frank Howard lias turned tramp.
He went to his ranch last Saturday
evening on a pony and hobbled him for
the night and spent the next day
tramping the country over looking for
that pony.
Vic. Smith, after killing 150 beaver
oh the South Cannonball this winter,
will go to work for Brown & Blake.^
H. F. Hatch, former?
has accepted the position
for Win. Eades.
Mr. Charles Angell and Miv
Colgrove, the two men who liad^
feet frozen about six weeks ag
have been under the care of t.
Donald, have so far recovered as toj
able to go to the range last Tuesd
The following of our citizens wj
at Bismarck this week: W. II. II|
Mr. Lameroux and wife, Miss Parij
Miss Minnie Granteer, Geo. Auldj
A. J. Davis. Also Will, and WsJ
Davis who proved up on their
The Anderson hotel is doing a"
business.
On the inside pages of the PRESS
will be found, every week, interesting^
reading matter, the latest news of tj
and foreign countries. We callj
tion to an article, this week^
Cincinnatti Times in rcg
newspapers.
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