New Milwaukee Towns

The first town on the new Cannon Ball branch of the Milwaukee road is Raliegh [sic], on section 1-133-85 [section 12, identified elsewhere as the location of Raleigh's post office, borders section 1 on the south] . This is at the crossing of the old Bismarck trail to the Black Hills. A few buildings have already been built, including a store and blacksmith shop. The population is mixed, largely Scandinavian.

The second town is on section 5-133-87 [possibly Leith?], a good location, and the third is a German settlement on 31-134-86. Next Leipzig is on 35-136-90 which promises to become an important town. At this point the N.P. and Milwaukee are only 125 feet apart. The old town of Leipzig will move to this point.
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Already it boasts of two stores, two drug stores, two lumber yards, two banks, one restaurant, one livery barn two pool rooms, one hardware store, a photograph gallery, a fifty barrel flour mill, tWO meat markets, a newspaper, and a number of residences. The company is also figuring on an artesian well.

South of the river and located on 13-133-91 will be the town of Bently, about two miles from the old site.

This town boasts of a bank, a lumber yard, a store, and an implement house. Between this town and Mott, a distance of 14 miles, there will be no town.

Mott is the next town, the present county seat of Hettinger county. This town has been established for some years anD has one newspaper, three banks, many good sized stores, lawyers and doctors. It was the second town in the county and is on the line of the Northern Pacific branch from Mandan.

The first town west of Mott will be known as Regent. Already it has one or two banks, two lumber yards, a hardware store two general stores and numerous enterprses are going in fast. The town is situated on a flat over the Cannon Ball river on the old Dickinson trail. This town is twenty-six miles south of Gladstone.

New England, on 4-135-97, will be the next town and the terminus of the road. This is already a smart little village, getting daily mail from Dickinson, a division point on the main line of the Northern Pacific 25 miles north, and is looked upon as a half way point between the aforesaid road north and the Milwaukee Coast line south. New England has three banks with the fourth organizing, two of the largest general stores in the county of Hettinger, an exclusive hardware store clothing store, drug store, etc. The Hettinger County Herald, the leading paper of the county, is published here. The place has lawyers and numerous land firms, land agencies and many other evidences of wealth and prosperity. Dr. J.W. Stribling, one of the rising physicians of Western North Dakota, is located here. As an evidence of the importance of this inland town, it is only necessary to mention that a single lot sale last fall totaled over $17,000.

Where the Milwaukee will run from New England no person can tell. Some, however, look for the line to branch north and south from this point. It is near the Bad Lands and cannot extend much further west.