DES LACS, =245.5 m.= (1,932 alt., 205 pop.), is named for Des Lacs River and Lake (_see Tour 7_). The little town received publicity in 1922 when it elected a complete ticket of women officials. One eastern newspaper wrote a glowing description of a campaign torchlight parade around the city hall and told of the enthusiasm which the men of the town felt over the winning ticket; but a writer for a women's magazine, sent out to look over the situation, was forced to report that there was no city hall, and that "the men were not so enthusiastic now, perhaps because they did not like to have their own backyards cleaned up." LONETREE, =249.5 m.= (2,002 alt., 36 pop.), was named by the railroad company for the one tree that was there when the rails were laid. This little town figured prominently in the Burlington-Minot battle for the seat of "Imperial Ward" County in 1888, turning the election for Minot (_see_ </sc>Minot</sc>). BERTHOLD, =253.5 m.= (2,089 alt., 511 pop.), is the center of a certified seed potato raising area. In the late 1880's it was the nearest railhead to Fort Berthold on the Indian reservation to the S., hence its name. At =262 m.= the terrain becomes more rolling and from here to the Missouri River the route traverses the ALTAMONT MORAINE, a range of hills lying on the eastern portion of the Missouri Plateau, and marking the farthest advance of the western lobe of the last or Dakota Glacier. TAGUS, =265 m.= (2,189 alt., 136 pop.), was named for a rancher named Taguson. Left from Tagus on an unimproved dirt road to CARPENTER LAKE (_swimming_), =6 m.= BLAISDELL (L), =273 m.= (2,264 alt., 100 pop.), was named for Alfred Blaisdell, a settler who later became secretary of state of North Dakota. PALERMO (L), =280.5 m.= (2,201 alt., 205 pop.), is the namesake of a city in Sicily. Right from Palermo in the rolling hills of the glacial moraine N. and E. of the town are several small lakes containing heavy deposits of sodium sulphate (_see Side Tour 4A_). STANLEY, =288 m.= (2,253 alt., 936 pop.), is named for one of the first homesteaders in the area. The MOUNTRAIL COUNTY COURTHOUSE (R), topped by a cupola, is at the northern end of town. Stanley is on a nearly level plateau, while both to the N. and to the S. the terrain is more rolling. There is a junction here with ND 8, a graveled highway (_see Side Tour 3A_). In 1906 the Stanley _Sun_, a usually conservative newspaper, joined other papers in the State in telling of the wonderful fertility of North Dakota soil: "... the most productive soil on earth, insomuch that if you stick a nail in the ground at night, it will grow into a crowbar before morning."