Daily press and Dakotaian. [volume] (Yankton, Dakota Territory [S.D.]) 1875-1880, 1880-04-22
NORTHERN DAKOTA.

Fargo has a new carriage factory.
Buildings in Pembina 90 up like mush.
rooms.
Settlers are unloading Al Casselton by the
car load.
The hotels at Acton are Overlooking with
new corners.
Tho Headquarters hotel at Fargo is being
improved and enlarged.
Myriads Of claim shanties are going up all
over Grand Forks county.
A second Scandinavian paper will be
started in Fargo May lst.
A newspaper and a hotel are two of the
needed things at ,Casselton.
Travelling men state that Grand Forks is
the ~liveliest town in the northwest.
The last issue of the Grand Forks Herald
contains fifteen different building notices.
Land along the Red river, in the vicinity
of Drayton, is being taken up very rapidly.
Oliver Dalrymple will have the lions
share Of 400 $1,000 bushels of wheat this year.
Casselton Is to be incorporated, and the
streets laid Out. The price of city lots has
advanced.
Arrangements have been made with the
Reid estate, on Elm river, for cropping
1000 acres.
Nine hundred and four pounds of mail
Grand Forks.
1t ia predicted that in two years from next
July street cars will be running through the
streets of Fargo.
A sixty foot steamboat is building at
jamestown, and will 60 down to Grand
Rapids on the first rise.
C. F. Kindred will seed twelve hundred
acres in wheat, and F. B. Thompson four
hundred, near Valley City.
The ladies' society of the Gethsemane
church at Fargo, will hold a strawberry and
ice cream festival April 22d.
Burton ia the name of q new town seven
miles west of jamestown, at Tenth Siding,
on the line Of the n. P. railroad.
A new school house to cost IS, 900 or
$4,000 has been ordered built in Grand
Forks county by the Grand Forks school
district.
The N. p. extension will be built to the
Yellowstone this season. The sixty miles
built have been turned over to the operating
department.
A man from Canada will go into the brick
business in Fargo. He has a new kind of a
machine that will turn out four thousand
bricks in an hour.
The Grand Forks Herald predicts that
within four weeks after the opening of the
land office at that place, not a vacant quar-
ter section of land will remain in that
county.
The new town of New Buffalo received in
one week ten cars Of emigrant's movables,
one hundred thousand feet of lumber, and
an immense amount of way freight, and the
town is not yet a year old.
A thousand acres of wheat on the Troy
farm, a thousand on the Steele farm, q
thousand on the Clarke farm and three hum
dred acres on President Hayes farm north
of Bismarck, will test the country west of
wheat producing region.
! Carlton postofice is now established and
opened at Fourth Siding, Barnes county, and
as soon as specifications can be gotten up, q
school house for the same place will be ad-
vertised for bids by mechanics. As soon a.
the railroad company give assurance that
Fourth Siding is a fixture, a town is TO be
laid out at this same place.
The body of. B. Bailey, a leading BUSH
ness man of Bismarck for over twenty years,
who had been missing since Sunday, was
found April 10th about twelve miles south
of that place in two feet of water. MI. Bal
ley had evidently wandered around for two
or three days. and approached the slough
and drank, and being exhausted from lack
of food, fell in and was drowned. Deceased
left Bismarck Saturday with ia. Emmons,
but was taken sick aud turned back alone.
That was the last known of him till his body
was found.