Jamestown alert. [volume] (Jamestown, Stutsman County, D.T. [N.D.]) 1878-1882, 1881-03-25
HARDWARE
by Learned Bros and Grimm, Geiseler &

| HARDWARE
by Learned Bros and Grimm, Geiseler &
Mueller.
DRUGS AND TOILET GOODS,
| Will Elmer.
| JEWELERS.,
T. W. Fields and w. Campbell.
BREWERY,
FLOoUR NC MILLS
Anton Klaus owns and runs the James.
town Touring mills. They are new and
c"mplets in every respect, have five run of
stones and capacity Of hundred bar
rels per day
GRAIN BUSINESS,
Bush & Corwin, who by the wsy own q
SO, 600 elevator at tn is place, which con-
tains at the time Of this writing twenty
five thousand bushels Of j ,mestown grain.
GOVERNMENT FREIGHTING,
s. F. Lambert, Ward Bill, manager.
MAsoNs,
| Mclean s. Son an! Plattenburg & Ploster
inaun.
coNTRAcToRs AND BUILDERS,
GaSal g. kindschs, Peter Aubertin, La
throp & Smith, schomburg & Clausen
and NJ. Murphy
BOOT AND SHOE MANUFAcTURERs,
Henry Flohr aud Peter Ringnette.
HOTELS,
Dakota House, J. J. Flint, proprietor;
jamestown Hotel, d. M. Kelleher, PRO
prietor.
REsrAURANTs,
the Eagle Restaurant, Bennett & Watkins,
pro prietors.
MISCELLANEOUS.
The laundry business is manipulated BY
r. G. Jordan.
We have two barber shops which are
presided over with marked artistic ability
BY Messrs. Poole and Hoffman.
We have seven saloons, which are run
with all due respect for the law aud are
seldom found open after twelve o'clock.
The Alert occupies the newspaper field
with two ed,tion>-a daily and weekly,
sample copies Of which will be sent free
to any address in the United States and
Canada
The millinery business is now carried
on by Mrs. Davis. Mes. Tisdale s Co.
will also open out complete stock.
" Doctors we have three. viz: Drs Thor
old, Baldwin and Hall. These gentlemen
ere regarded as being frst.c]ass physi-
clans.
S. L. Knapp & Son represent the paint
brush fraternity. and are looked upon by
every one as No. workmen.
B. W. Fuller carries on the loan and
brokerage business and is extensively en-
gagged in his line.
J. A. Moore & Co. have the livery bus
inrss ana keep land lockers outfits con-
stantly on hand.
vEdward Decker directs q neat confec-
tionery store.
sTUTsMAN COUNTY
cannot be more tru,hfully described than
it is in the following which we clip from
the columns of the Northwestern Land
Journal:
4 million three hundred thousand acres
is the amount Of land within Stutsman
county, Dakota, and it is made up Of
prairie, timber, meadow and river bottom
lands, about nine-tenths of the area being
we'll adapted to cultivation.
thus we have within the limits Of q
single county an area greater than the
state of Rho,,e Island. Allowing to each
settler farm of $50 acres, and we have in
this county over 1000 farms, each capable
Of supporting at least ten persons OF
these 1000 farms only about 250 are TAX
en, So that that there is room here for
about 5000 farmers ut once.
Our pr. r.iries have rich, black loan
soil from eighteen inches to three feet in
depth, under which we find retentive
yellow clay subsoil extending to great
depth
The meadows produce IN great abund
snce, quality If hay said by experienced
stock men to 6e superior to timothy and
clover the yieIi being IRON one to three
tons per acre.
In the bottoms slong the streams the
soil is composed of a vegetable mold from
three to Eve feet deep, with clay subsoil
similar to that on the prairies.
Timber is chiefly ash, elm and box cl-
der, with little oak Water, clear, pure
and cold, is found everywhere at a depth
of from twenty to thirty feet. The supe-
rlority of our water alone is bringing to
us many settlers who are unable to accus-
tom themselves to the brackish foul va.
ter of the Red River valley.
Grain and live stock do equally we'll in
this country. Bo.h have been thoroughly
tried.
Our taxes are merely nominal, being
about nine mills on the dollar actual value.
The county has no debt aud no expensive
Improvements in contem plation. Nature