| Summary: | 24 Wells County History Sec. 23, Twp. 143 N., Range 69 W. in Stutsman county. This camp they named "Camp Grant," in honor of Gen. U. S. Grant. the site of which is on the Gerber farm in Gerber township. Gen. Sully's Army 1865 Late in July, 1865, Gen. A. H. Sully, U. S. A. led an army of 2,500 men from Fort Rice to Devils Lake. He entered Well? county near the southwest corner, and traveling slightly east of north, forded the Sheyenne in the Harvey vicinity and continued on past Butte de Morale. Captain Twining's Military Road In 1869, Capt. W. J. Twining, U. S. A. selected the route for a military road from Fort Stevenson to Fort Totten. This old trail passed over the extreme northwest corner of Wells county, and wagon ruts hub deep remained in mute memory of the past, until the prairie was broken up by the early settlers. With the completion of these expeditions, Wells county was well explored. Wells county was included in the Boundless Grassland Prairies of the Great Plains. In the U. S. Biological Survey it is classified with much of North Dakota in the Humid Transition Life Zone. This zone is generally characterized by a heavy growth f prairie grasses, strips of timber along the streams and by thickets of brush in protected places. The Semi Arid Transition Zone covers most of the western part of the state. The 100th Meridian of Longitude west from Greenwich is generally conceded as the dividing line between the two zones. It is in the second group of the production series of North Dakota, and in the Black Earth belt, which is the transition zone between the humid east and the arid west. The soils are black or brownish black loam, eight to thirty inches in depth, with a yellow clay subsoil and beds of sand and gravel and usually a hard pan of blue clay. There have been several ice invasions since the beginning of Pleistocine times. A glacier is formed by more snow falling in winter at high elevations than can melt during the following summer. An ice sheet is then formed which grows in thickness o Scanned with a Zeutschel Zeta book scanner at 300 dpi. Edited with Multi-Page TIFF Editor.
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