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BISMARCK IS 70 TODAY~srr(Continued from Page One)iHit up a shed for use as his office at what is now the northeast corner of Third St., and Main Ave. This was the first building in Bismarck.George W. Sweet, a surveyor employed by Burleigh, immediately began laying out the townsite and the first plat was dated May 14, 1872.— Uurlsigii -did build te rfsadw, -w contracted and probsbly got paid 'or it, but the whole thing was a hoc os pocus and it was never used The roadbed he constructed appmarr.cd the Missouri across from the cnouth of Heart river James J Hill, empire builder in of construct:cjc, always latency to ctom tne Missouriwhere the ‘•^uroad onc^e nvwMen. Women Crw 40 Rundown, Listless?C9t Zip, Punch, Nm¥ Activity«WUTX''0 toe* 4are aomtysa*03* c.‘ Mi m«s tp.t BCP£C1A2*LY coed far tSooe SMt 40 » naUttat Wtejimott cm* tmctd V* -tfWonary ut On«jfc5e Tkuca bov *k tot dun to 04 *s*. TttaMty aad swt for ^*ra« W*. tttii nrr dear.For sale at all good drvg itnts everTM-See*—u uumirefc at Capital Cat Rate Dnibut John Jackman controlled the land and was holding it at a high price. Andent records show that it apparently was necessary to deceive him asto the location of tfrp crossing, hpnw the letting ol the grading contract to Or. Burleigh.This grade, by the way, 1* the one which caa bC isen-from Kfjbwajr^No. 10 at various places east of here.Dr. Burleigh later went to Montana and entered politics there—unsuccessfully, Be had a flying start In Dakota because his father-in-law, Andrew Falk, was territorial governor at the time. Whether that had anything to do with his getting the contract with the Northern Pacific' is not indicated by available records.Arriving in Bismarck at the same time, as elerk for Dr. Burleigh, was the late B., A. Williams, destined to be a prominent figure'in the territory and state for maqy years. It was his affection for Dr. Burleigh, evidenced when he was surveyor general, that gave the county its name.
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Bismarck Tribune
Bismarck, North Dakota, US
Thu, May 14, 1942
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